A - damn... missed to insert the Link... so here it is: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...pgrading/f59fb5bd-21a5-4010-8a39-7b975611b73b And here the Sentence I've mentioned:
Hmmm...OK... But the problem I see is this: When I make a clean installation of Win 10 on new hardware how will support know that I'm a legit owner of a free upgrade license? In a year time from now the free upgrade offer will not be valid anymore. This means I cannot install Win 7 first and then upgrade to Win 10. So the only way to get Win 10 installed will be a clean install. And MS also said that this will just not work with the free upgraded Win 10. Even now already. So the statements from MS we both collected contradict to each other. Licensing policies from MS have always been overly complicated but this sounds fishy to me.
I think the new licence is tied to your Live account and validated with the upgrade. And any new installation after the upgrade will be checked against the live account, and the hardware used.
Maybe later MS will issue unique licence keys to everyone, and like you say, hopefully free of charge
Maybe... But at the moment I'm quite concerned about losing my Windows license after this one year. If I just stick to Win 7, I will have a license that I can install on new hardware as often as I wish and is being supplied with updates for a few more years.
Windows 7 and WIndows 8 licences are all only good for 3 total installs. At some point you will run out of uses for it no matter what you do. Just take that into consideration.
Don't agree I am using Windows 7 and have done about 10 clean installs. and had 10 times to activate. After more then three times you can't activate by the Internet. But you can be activated by Phone again, simple as that without buying a license !! You need a code again, something like that Hansje
^^^ yes that's my experience as well, basically you just give 'em a call and they always get you sorted out.
I don't know if it's the same all over the world, but whenever I had to re-activate Windows 7 after a substantial hardware change I could do it completely without even talking to a real person. It could be done via some kind of telephone computer. It asked me for a very long number Windows showed me during the process and I entered it through the phone keys. Then it dictated me another number I had to enter in Windows. The whole process took about 5 minutes or less. But here was a Windows key involved I entered during installation. The free upgraded Win 10 has no key. So there is no base for an automated process that can link my installation to anything they have in their database.
Have reinstalled win 7 more times than I can remember and Hansje is correct, 3 times via the net then you have to phone free phone number to activate.
Nothing to fear, it's all good. The only issue I've encountered is Rivatuner stats server not working with R3E but that's a minor thing. Get it installed!
Nothing appreciable, but I was running R3E quite easily at near max settings with Windows 8, so it's difficult for me to notice any enhancements.
For me though... A big fat yes. For a consistent performance with all tracks on 8.1 and to have shadows on high with split on, my compromise was to reduce Track Texture, car texture to medium, now though (in 10) they are on high. Also AA has increased to 4x from 2x. My spec in my signature.
I run a LG 29 Ultrawide 29UM55 AMD Radeon 7970 IntelGigabyt Z87X-D3H Motherboard Intel i5-4670K 3.40GHZ CPU In Windows 8 - I ran at max settings Windows 10 - see below - any ideas? I have updated all drivers etc.
Not sure if I'm 100% correct here, but I don't think your resolution is fully supported. (2560x1080?) I know triples work, but aren't either (the outer part of the image is stretched) maybe 8.1 handled it better.. Sorry i have no solution for you..
On your suggestion, I tried it. Changed the resolution, everything I could think of...Regardless of the the resolution, the game launches in the half of a window. I open to all suggestions, because this is my favorite game.