So who has upgraded to 8 so far and how was the process?

[finalhour]

I'd like to hear about how it went for those of you who have upgraded, whether you did a clean install vs. the upgrade, and for any tips you have about what to do before upgrading etc....

[hsp25]

Swiper wrote:
I'm able to use steam with Windows 8. The only game I'm playing is Civilization V and it works fine. I had to download both steam and the game again.

Oh dear. With around 300gb of games and .5gb/s download speed, I doubt I will be going to windows 8 any time soon

[Zygomorphic]

hsp25 wrote:
Oh dear. With around 300gb of games and .5gb/s download speed, I doubt I will be going to windows 8 any time soon

That should only be a little over an hour:
(300 gigabytes / 1)*(8 bits/byte)*(1 sec/0.5 gigabits) = 2400 bits*sec / 0.5 bits [cancelled giga's]
= 4800 sec / 3600 sec * 1 hr = 1.3 hrs.

[hsp25]

Zygomorphic wrote:
That should only be a little over an hour:
(300 gigabytes / 1)*(8 bits/byte)*(1 sec/0.5 gigabits) = 2400 bits*sec / 0.5 bits [cancelled giga's]
= 4800 sec / 3600 sec * 1 hr = 1.3 hrs.

Must be mb/s not gb/s then as in real world time it more like 5-7 hours min for 10gb. Depending on server traffic. It can take a full 24hrs to get a 10gb game downloaded. Unfortunately they are the best provider in my area so there is no fixing it until the service provider decides to. I've contacted my isp about it. The answer was basically it's not our fault as we use another isp exchange and they need to fix the issue.. ETA possibly never.

[john_from_ohio]

I started getting blue screen failures on Win 8 after using cisco vpn client ... it did not say anything was wrong with it during upgrade but died immediately after trying cisco vpn client. Then it would reboot and blue screen again in a loop.

Not impressed but that's why you test on a separate hard drive right!

[madnj]

Cisco VPN client is incompatible, but I didn't have bluescreens. I switched to Shrew VPN client which uses Cisco .pcf profile files to create connection profiles.

The issue I had was a "Failed to enable virtual adapter" issue when connecting with Cisco, and there's a workaround/fix to that one. I still use Shrew though because I had performance issues with DNS resolution even after the registry hack to make it work.

That said, Shrew VPN is pretty nice and I have no complaints. The latest stable release worked fine, but I'm running the latest beta of the client personally which I had to run the installer in Windows 7 compatibility mode for it to install. All looks good, and I've been using Shrew since Consumer Preview and literally use it every day for work so I can connect to work systems and use our IP telephony software for PC based phone calls over the VPN.

Sorry to hear you've had bluescreens, I never experienced that with the basic latest 64 bit Cisco VPN client.

[Asus4lifeP4P800]

Upgraded to 8 pro after trying it out on my Samsung series 7 and Dell XT. Works great on all three laptops. Ran into far more problems getting it installed and fully functional on the G75 though. I did an upgrade install, probably the reason why as i did clean installs on the others. Had to re-install a lot of drivers, even with the same versions, in order to get things functioning properly.

Just do it though. Windows 8 is great. YES STEAM WORKS. Borderlands 2, even with a few FPS higher, Counterstrike source works, and everything else i tried. Everyone complains about the start button... I personally had grown past everything the start button offered EXCEPT the search feature. There is no functional difference between windows 8 start menu and 7 if you used it the way I do. you can still access the new start menu(metro) by clicking in the bottom left corner or using the windows key, and you just start typing. Everything else is I use with any frequency is in Rocketdock.

One MAJOR issue I ran into was the inability to Sleep the computer. Turned out needed to re-install the NVIDIA Drivers. Wierd. Sleep wouldnt even show up as options under power settings or anywhere.

[madnj]

Hmm, I'd actually check to see if there's a way to migrate your Steam library from one PC to another as that's basically what you're doing here... I'd find it pretty hard to believe you wouldn't be able to back something up so that Steam is aware that you already have the games downloaded.

I'm not sure if this is accurate, but it's possible that as long as the data is there Steam will see that the games are installed:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110830233504AAHY7A0

[2Pacula]

I was surprised to see that when I installed Steam in the same location as I had my old installation on Win8, it recognized my previously installed games. If this doesn't happen to you, it should be possible to do a clean install of Steam, start the download on the games you have on your old installation, pause the downloads, quit Steam, copy the files, start Steam, then verify game integrity of each game. I did this once on Windows 7 a year ago with no issues.

[hsp25]

2Pacula wrote:
I was surprised to see that when I installed Steam in the same location as I had my old installation on Win8, it recognized my previously installed games. If this doesn't happen to you, it should be possible to do a clean install of Steam, start the download on the games you have on your old installation, pause the downloads, quit Steam, copy the files, start Steam, then verify game integrity of each game. I did this once on Windows 7 a year ago with no issues.

That sounds like a much better idea then