6 hours ago, David Mills said:

...For now, however, I'm sticking with Windows 10 due to the most important rule in the entire universe: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

It is the most important rule, but since humans evolved into the more technological times, "If it ain't broke, break it!" tends to be the way. 

In any case, I will be testing Windows 11 soon (I am an insider).  But I am not stupid; I will be installing it on my wife's PC first, while she is at work. 😆
If it all goes fine, I will say 'look at the nice upgrade I have done for you!', if not, I will say it is all Microsoft's fault! 

At the end of the day, I am sure it will all be alright.

Edited June 29, 20214 yr by bobcat999

15 minutes ago, bobcat999 said:

It is the most important rule, but since humans evolved into the more technological times, "If it ain't broke, break it!" tends to be the way. 

In any case, I will be testing Windows 11 soon (I am an insider).  But I am not stupid; I will be installing it on my wife's PC first, while she is at work. 😆
If it all goes fine, I will say 'look at the nice upgrade I have done for you!', if not, I will say it is all Microsoft's fault! 

At the end of the day, I am sure it will all be alright.

Go for it Bob you will luv it way more intuitive now - good luck Pal 🙂 was pretty easy and not invasive 

3 hours ago, Bunchy said:

 

Windows compatibility checker still says NO!

 

If you have a 1080TI as in your signature specs then it will fail. You need a 20 series DX12 compliant GPU. 2070 is the minimum as per Microsoft recommendations.

7 hours ago, David Mills said:

I just did an hour's reading about Windows 11 and about why the PC Health Check app is telling many people that their computer won't run Windows 11 (even though it will). It seems that the actual system requirements for Windows 11 are minimal: A two-core processor, 4GB of RAM, a tiny 64GB storage device, a DX12-capable graphics card. But many people, including me, apparently don't have the Secure-Boot option enabled in their BIOS, nor have they enabled TPM (Trusted Platform Module). My own BIOS, which is almost seven years old, had both of these options available but neither had been enabled. And that's why I was getting the message that my PC wouldn't support Windows 11 even though it will. For now, however, I'm sticking with Windows 10 due to the most important rule in the entire universe: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

 

Windows 7 isnt broken .. are you using it?

A while ago, I probably would have installed the Windows 11 preview at the first chance I have (I'm also a member of the insider program), but these days, I'm much more in the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"-camp.

During the pandemic, I really need my PC to run perfectly at alll times because I'm partly working from home, so I'm not inclined to experiment with new OS versions these days. Same with the big Windows 10 updates. I also delay those for at least half a year to make sure they don't break anything.

As far as I see, Windows 11 won't bring any improvements I absolutely need at release, and things like DX12 for MSFS should work totally fine with Windows 10.

18 minutes ago, RW1 said:

If you have a 1080TI as in your signature specs then it will fail. You need a 20 series DX12 compliant GPU. 2070 is the minimum as per Microsoft recommendations.

No, this would not be accurate. Even my old GTX 980Ti in my desktop simming PC is DX12 compliant. My laptop has a lowly nVidia MX250 GPU and it even passes the Win 11 checker app. Don't believe anything that either MS or that test application tells you. It's all early days and even MS themselves are changing the rules as they go along. And so everybody knows (there is another thread here on Avsim), the checker app that you can download is hard coded to fail any PC with a CPU older than 8th Gen. This is not likely to be the case by the time Win 11 launches. So don't go fiddling with your PC BIOS and other settings trying to make it pass a very pointless test and sit with a bricked system for another year waiting for the release. Yep another year. It will first release on new PC's at the end of this year and the upgrade version will only be distributed to Win 10 PC's in 2022.

Edited June 29, 20214 yr by RaptyrOne

31 minutes ago, RW1 said:

If you have a 1080TI as in your signature specs then it will fail. You need a 20 series DX12 compliant GPU. 2070 is the minimum as per Microsoft recommendations.

I have 1080Ti and my PC passed the check. Don’t spread false info please. 1080ti is dx12 compatible. 

45 minutes ago, RW1 said:

If you have a 1080TI as in your signature specs then it will fail. You need a 20 series DX12 compliant GPU. 2070 is the minimum as per Microsoft recommendations.

The 1080 gtx is dx12 compliant, as far as i know?

2 hours ago, G-RFRY said:

Until MSFS goes DX12 no point in testing W11. If you sign up to windows insider you will get it first.

That will be July 27th 

2 hours ago, bobcat999 said:

It is the most important rule, but since humans evolved into the more technological times, "If it ain't broke, break it!" tends to be the way. 

In any case, I will be testing Windows 11 soon (I am an insider).  But I am not stupid; I will be installing it on my wife's PC first, while she is at work. 😆
If it all goes fine, I will say 'look at the nice upgrade I have done for you!', if not, I will say it is all Microsoft's fault! 

At the end of the day, I am sure it will all be alright.

From my experience: for your wife it's going to be your fault anyway.

My life became way less stressful after accepting that our lot as men (and especially as husbands) is to be guilty for whatever happens... 😉 

Edited June 29, 20214 yr by Belgarath

5 hours ago, RW1 said:

If you have a 1080TI as in your signature specs then it will fail. You need a 20 series DX12 compliant GPU. 2070 is the minimum as per Microsoft recommendations.

C’mon Jack! Enough!

Will this run on Windows 7?

10 series cards are not compatible with DX12 ultimate, or DX12_2, they are compatible with DX12_1
 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_levels_in_Direct3D

 

22 hours ago, David Mills said:

I just did an hour's reading about Windows 11 and about why the PC Health Check app is telling many people that their computer won't run Windows 11 (even though it will). It seems that the actual system requirements for Windows 11 are minimal: A two-core processor, 4GB of RAM, a tiny 64GB storage device, a DX12-capable graphics card. But many people, including me, apparently don't have the Secure-Boot option enabled in their BIOS, nor have they enabled TPM (Trusted Platform Module). My own BIOS, which is almost seven years old, had both of these options available but neither had been enabled. And that's why I was getting the message that my PC wouldn't support Windows 11 even though it will. For now, however, I'm sticking with Windows 10 due to the most important rule in the entire universe: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

 

David,

My check indicated that my processor (6700K) is not supported by windows 11. You indicated your BIOS is 7 yrs old, so curious what CPU you are running?

I have a 10700K. RTX3099. 64GB Ram. SSD 480GB. I am an insider. And it says I don’t meet the requirements. What gives? 
 

 I even tried turning on Secure Boot on BIOS.