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Massive Windows 10 problems
BrianWescombe
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I upgraded from Win 7 to Win 10 (64-bit, running on 16GB of RAM, Intel i7 CPU). At first it seemed reasonably ok, I noticed that the boot time was slightly longer and disk access was a bit slower than with 7. Also a lot of the apps and processes were crashing regularly (showing in the event log/reliability monitor as 'stopped working'). I put this down to a few teething problems/minor bugs.
I did a clean install (wiped the SDD completely), and it was the same. The other day I tried copying a number of large video files (HDTV recordings etc), the HDD would hit 100% and saturate the SATA controller (Windows Explorer just kept hanging). This was annoying me so much that I re-installed Windows 7, where everything just WORKED!
Being quite the geek, I did some investigating. I installed Win 10 on a Virtualbox VM, using 6GB RAM. Any attempt to open/access/right click on a video file over 4GB in size resulted in an Explorer crash/hang. Video file of 3.98GB worked fine, but a 4.05GB file just crashed Explorer. Interesting though that the smaller one had a video thumbnail, the larger one didn't generate one.
Installed Win 7 on the VM using the same specs and technically the same 'hardware' - all the video files worked, even one of 10GB in size (complete with thumbnail).
Have I discovered a major problem here? There hasn't been anything reported, surely I can't be the only one having a problem with video files >4GB? It seems that Win 10 Explorer process can't handle these large video files (mp4 or .ts)
This has actually been a deal-breaker for me, I will have to stay on Win 7 unless it's fixed
I did a clean install (wiped the SDD completely), and it was the same. The other day I tried copying a number of large video files (HDTV recordings etc), the HDD would hit 100% and saturate the SATA controller (Windows Explorer just kept hanging). This was annoying me so much that I re-installed Windows 7, where everything just WORKED!
Being quite the geek, I did some investigating. I installed Win 10 on a Virtualbox VM, using 6GB RAM. Any attempt to open/access/right click on a video file over 4GB in size resulted in an Explorer crash/hang. Video file of 3.98GB worked fine, but a 4.05GB file just crashed Explorer. Interesting though that the smaller one had a video thumbnail, the larger one didn't generate one.
Installed Win 7 on the VM using the same specs and technically the same 'hardware' - all the video files worked, even one of 10GB in size (complete with thumbnail).
Have I discovered a major problem here? There hasn't been anything reported, surely I can't be the only one having a problem with video files >4GB? It seems that Win 10 Explorer process can't handle these large video files (mp4 or .ts)
This has actually been a deal-breaker for me, I will have to stay on Win 7 unless it's fixed
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I used the Intel RST drivers for my motherboard, but although they've been updated for Win 10, the newer ones don't support my 2-year old board (this could explain the slow drive access). On the VM however I was using the standard MS SATA AHCI driver. From the clean installs of Win 10 and Win 7, directly from logging in for the first time, I couldn't play the >4GB video in Win 10 but could in Win 7 (both using the same VM setup).
Will do some further investigation but looks like I may be able to solve the problem