Windows 10 [2014 - 2017]

[sir doris]

Yes it's realy bizzar. I like to shift around things like Afterburner, Steam Chat, Firefox etc. and the app will move between the windows fine but when the mouse hits the edge of the screen I get the 'snap too' ripple and the half screen 'snap' outline appears as you would expect from the other side of the monitor. The thing is I can't remember if it's the latest Catalysts which caused it or Windows 10.

 

[hoom]

I got no problem with multi-monitor.
I normally use win+arrow but I have dragged some windows across.
R9 280x with Cat 15.7.1.

Just testing it, seems if you go too slow it will hang on the screen edge with the snap thing.

I don't have boot up speed issues but I do seem to have something in the background seeming to be hanging from time to time which is annoying as fuck.
Feels like indexing maybe.
Like last night I went to shut down the PC but it took literally tens of mins of sitting there doing nothing much, eventually did manage to shut itself down though.

 

[zed]

for those with slow boots after installing win 10, I've done a bit of searching and theres quite a few threads on the issue eg
http://forums.windowscentral.com/windows-10/370969-windows-10-slow-boot.html Im gonna try some things here, though some seem AMD related which I don't have
http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/soft...03760/how-to-fix-the-windows-10-slow-boot-bug
http://www.express.co.uk/life-style...-10-How-To-Speed-Up-Slow-Boot-Up-Free-Upgrade

 

[orangpelupa]

I still dont understand why anyone who has a sound system or tv uses sound cards for gaming when you can just use hdmi audio. Its typically hassle free with no driver headaches at all.

I can see using one for audio recording or streamcasting.

because HDMI audio does not work for me. I even done the 'workaround' by extending display to the HDMI audio but it still refuse to be detected as audio device despite it have HDMI ARC

 

[Albuquerque]

Just for giggles, I tossed my Lenovo Y460 laptop (Win10 Pro) into my man-cave and HDMI'd it into my Vizio M-series 60" LCD TV. I then steam-streamed a few games from the gaming rig in the next room over (also Win10 Pro) and had no issues with audio passthrough. This was with AMD's 5650 chipset in charge of the HDMI audio output, and my Vizio M actually pipes it through an optical SPDIF to a not-impressive-but-it-works-for-me 5.1 system.

 

[BRiT]

because HDMI audio does not work for me. I even done the 'workaround' by extending display to the HDMI audio but it still refuse to be detected as audio device despite it have HDMI ARC

I thought you had tos optical or something else that definitely is not hdmi audio or did you replace the first set of equipment that wasnt what everyone suggested with something else?

 

[orangpelupa]

I thought you had tos optical or something else that definitely is not hdmi audio or did you replace the first set of equipment that wasnt what everyone suggested with something else?

my DVD player have Optical Audio and HDMI ARC. Thats why i tried using HDMI when i found W10 have broken optical support

 

[orangpelupa]

Just for giggles, I tossed my Lenovo Y460 laptop (Win10 Pro) into my man-cave and HDMI'd it into my Vizio M-series 60" LCD TV. I then steam-streamed a few games from the gaming rig in the next room over (also Win10 Pro) and had no issues with audio passthrough. This was with AMD's 5650 chipset in charge of the HDMI audio output, and my Vizio M actually pipes it through an optical SPDIF to a not-impressive-but-it-works-for-me 5.1 system.

Single HDMI does work for me. The problem in W10 occurred with multiple HDMI (one for TV, one for Audio). The sound devices panel itself have 6 HDMI Audio device that is disconnected.

 

[Albuquerque]

^^ ah, that makes sense to me. I have insufficient equipment to try that

 

[Grall]

Something weird happened to my main rig while I was away on vacation (I dunno if anyone actually noticed me not posting at all for ten days straight, lol); whenever the monitor entered power save (which has barely worked at all for months now, it just blanked the screen to black instead) or was turned off via the power button, all video output from my dGPU seemed to die. Sometimes I could get my desktop back by re-plugging the monitor cable, but usually it was just shutdown via power button and restart.

I'm suspecting it's some interference from the intel graphics driver that's causing this (possibly a new version that windows update fetched while I was away), but I'm not sure. Fucking windows 10 home downloading and installing shit without asking first... Anyone know which knob to twiddle to disable that garbage behavior...?

It could also just be windows rot of course. This is an upgrade install, I will do a straight win10 install once I buy myself a nice USB3 flash stick.

Anyway, I disabled the intel graphics in device manager, we'll see if things work better now...

 

[zed]

Anyone know which knob to twiddle to disable that garbage behavior...?

pharma posted a link last page, how to turn off cortina, updates etc

 

[mrcorbo]

my DVD player have Optical Audio and HDMI ARC. Thats why i tried using HDMI when i found W10 have broken optical support

Maybe this might help. It details the *very* specific setup one needs to have an HDMI ARC connection function properly: http://hometheaterreview.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-arc-audio-return-channel/

The crap thing is that even when working properly and to the full extent of the spec ARC has the same limitations as S/PDIF in terms of the types of bitstreams it can transmit. Stereo PCM, Dolby Digital and DTS only. So, you really don't gain anything except saving a cable.

 

[orangpelupa]

The rumor is the September big update will fix LOTS of issues including

* Dolby issue
* random touchscreen issue

The Dolby issue is really annoying on HTPC.

The touchscreen issue practically makes touch + pen input (like taking onenote) unbearable

 

[Albuquerque]

Huh, haven't run into the touchscreen / pen+tablet issue just yet. Unfortunately I've discovered a new bug: my wife's Surface now has this random challenge where after a few days of not rebooting, the wireless + BT module (Marvel Avastar) goes completely to shit and the only way to fix it is a reboot.

The device still shows in device manager, but it loses all connectivity to everything. There's no newer drivers,and it seems like others are having the problem too. Bleh.

 

[Grall]

There's no newer drivers,and it seems like others are having the problem too. Bleh.

If others have it too it's good news, because it means MS has to fix the bug.

I managed to get my monitor weirdness fixed with either a dGPU driver update or by disabling the iGPU in device manager. Still unable to get power saving to work though, and AMD powertune still doesn't respect downclocking of the GPU when running compute jobs.

 

[hoom]

I have been feeling tempted to turn Cortana on just so I can yell & swear at her on the off chance it may help convince Win10 that when I put the computer in Sleep mode with Allow Wake Timers set to Disable, this means something other than:

Sleep for about 10mins then wake back up for no obvious reason just in time to prevent me from falling asleep.​

Also that the subsequent rageful multi-click on the Sleep button means something other than:

Blank the screen & keep on doing whatever the shit I woke up for until about 2mins after my alarm goes off in the morning.
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This shit is driving me fuckin nuts

I really shouldn't be having to resort to Power Off overnight in these modern days.
Also I'm not convinced that Hybrid Sleep is actually doing the Hibernate bit at all even though its on & worked perfectly fine with Win7

 

[Kyyla]

Yeah it's weird they messed up the sleep. I have disallowed some wake timers manually (find them with powercfg -waketimers) from task manager and now generally the computer sleeps overnight.

 

[hoom]

Hmm, says there aren't any active

Also I'm getting really annoyed that some simple things like the setting for Task Manager to do separate graphs per processor with Kernel times enabled don't stick properly.

And yet some old bugbears are fixed like the Calculator converter option now saves the last used conversion options.

 

[Albuquerque]

Huh, you know I didn't think to complain (yet) about sleep being dorky, but you're right and it is. My Lenovo Y460 will occasionally wake up and do ... something? And then eventually go back to sleep. I usually have it closed when not using it, so I really only notice if I happen to be nearby and can see the LCD light seeping out the edges.

My Gaming Rig of Epic Power Consumption(TM) goes to sleep quickly, but seems to wake up for backups at night and then never go back to sleep. The monitor will power off, but the desktop unit itself continues on. I turned off the image-based backups and that seemed to solve most of it, but occasionally (perhaps once per week, maybe less) I will walk into my office and the desktop will be awake with the monitor still asleep.

I haven't really gone crazy fixing it yet, but it's on my list. The wife's surface, despite all the other challenges with Win10, doesn't seem to exhibit this particular problem.

 

[orangpelupa]

Huh, haven't run into the touchscreen / pen+tablet issue just yet. Unfortunately I've discovered a new bug: my wife's Surface now has this random challenge where after a few days of not rebooting, the wireless + BT module (Marvel Avastar) goes completely to shit and the only way to fix it is a reboot.

The device still shows in device manager, but it loses all connectivity to everything. There's no newer drivers,and it seems like others are having the problem too. Bleh.

I got that bug in w8.1.

the alternative to reboot is 'disable then enable' the device from device manager