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10-11-2016 07:08 AM
Hello! I would like to know what windows a need install, for excellent work in games, and the latest drivers for a video card?
my notebook
http://support.hp.com/kz-ru/document/c03327487
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10-11-2016 05:06 PM
Hello;
Allow me to welcome you to the HP forums!
I wish I had good news for you -- but I don't ...
According to the product page for your PC, it came with either Win8 or Win7 preinstalled. You evidently chose to do the Win10 Upgrade, and you should have checked the HP site for drivers BEFORE you did that Upgrade -- as there are no Win10 drivers for your laptop.
A critical factor in game performance is the presence of the right video drivers, and since HP does not have them for the OS version you installed, you will never get good game performance in Win10 on your laptop.
If you want better performance, you need HP video drivers -- and for that, you need to restore your PC to its original OS version.
While Microsoft tells you that there is no risk in the Win10 Upgrade, because they let you believe that you can always revert back to your original OS and setup within 30 days, the ugly fact of the matter is that the Win10 GoBack function has proven to be unreliable -- and when it fails, it can leave machines in a corrupted state -- which doesn't always happen, but it does happen often enough to be a problem and you won't get any warning in advance that it is going to trash your PC!
If that is not bad enough, the Win10 Upgrade is know, in some cases, to corrupt the Recovery partition stored there by the OEM that built the original machine. This pretty much guarantees that no HP Recovery is going to work: http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Desktop-Video-Display-and-Touch/HP-Recovery-Manager-Blocked-After-Windo...
So basically, the ONLY way you can restore the laptop now is something known as HP Recovery Media --and that reformats the hard drive, erasing everything on it.
I am a volunteer and I do not work for, nor represent, HP
10-11-2016 05:06 PM
Hello;
Allow me to welcome you to the HP forums!
I wish I had good news for you -- but I don't ...
According to the product page for your PC, it came with either Win8 or Win7 preinstalled. You evidently chose to do the Win10 Upgrade, and you should have checked the HP site for drivers BEFORE you did that Upgrade -- as there are no Win10 drivers for your laptop.
A critical factor in game performance is the presence of the right video drivers, and since HP does not have them for the OS version you installed, you will never get good game performance in Win10 on your laptop.
If you want better performance, you need HP video drivers -- and for that, you need to restore your PC to its original OS version.
While Microsoft tells you that there is no risk in the Win10 Upgrade, because they let you believe that you can always revert back to your original OS and setup within 30 days, the ugly fact of the matter is that the Win10 GoBack function has proven to be unreliable -- and when it fails, it can leave machines in a corrupted state -- which doesn't always happen, but it does happen often enough to be a problem and you won't get any warning in advance that it is going to trash your PC!
If that is not bad enough, the Win10 Upgrade is know, in some cases, to corrupt the Recovery partition stored there by the OEM that built the original machine. This pretty much guarantees that no HP Recovery is going to work: http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Desktop-Video-Display-and-Touch/HP-Recovery-Manager-Blocked-After-Windo...
So basically, the ONLY way you can restore the laptop now is something known as HP Recovery Media --and that reformats the hard drive, erasing everything on it.
I am a volunteer and I do not work for, nor represent, HP