Windows 10 Version 2004
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JonnyT which type of strain are you getting on AMD Ryzen 5 chip??
Few years ago i made a shift from intel chip based laptop to AMD Ryzen laptop as intel based one was giving me severe eyestrain. AMD ryzen, as put by one user, was most usable but not perfect.
One day my primary AMD Ryzen laptop broke down and it took 20 days for repair. In the meantime, i brought out my old intel laptop out of dust. I was getting same earlier problems. Then, i accidentally struck to @si_edgey post. Now i am using intel laptop with win 7 and dithering 1.11 for now.
JonnyT Do you get an increased urge to sleep after using AMD ryzen with windows 10 Laptop?
mydevicedefineme yes!!!! All the time!! Any solution?
JonnyT Nopes...i myself is searching solution. Dithering software as suggested by si_edgy works for intel. But, first, there is a need to document what kind of specific problems is being faced by AMD users.
My 20H2 install got trashed, but it's not a big deal. Currently typing this from 2004/20H1 with updates blocked so it's currently nice and creamy. The nice thing about installing everything after 7, it's very easy to have multiple partitions on a drive and you can install different versions of the Windows OS or even the same OS but different builds to different partitions and simply choose which one you want to boot from from the normal bootloader. Mixing non-Windows OSes into it (Linux, Haiku, BSD, etc) needs to chain bootloaders.
To that end, here is a 24-hour link to the iso of 21H1 if anyone wants it. It's going to be the same as 20H1 and 20H2. The big changes won't be till the fall, with "Sun Valley". This iso has one very curious feature in it which surprised me. Legacy edge is in it, and it wasn't in the 20H2 one but I'm not complaining because this is part of why I reinstalled 2004 into this partition.
Software update will install the March cumulative update into it, and you will end up with a build # of 19043.867 (844 on install). If your system is fine, don't bother with this iso as there are no changes for a PC.
I currently spend all my time in 20H2 now on my HD 6000. My recommended update procedure for any version of the OS on a clean install with the network not connected, separately download the SSU update and install that first (especially if you're using something ancient like 1507!). Then install the cumulative update from the windows update catalog. This way it won't be a script getting confused as to what to install in which order. You just need a 40 GB free space partition to play around, it won't screw up your other OS install if you do custom install and select the new partition.
In addition, in the classic control panel for color management, once your monitor is populated in device manager with a profile instead of generic pnp, two additional boxes need to be checked.. on the first tab "Use my settings for this device" then on the advanced tab click on change system defaults click on the advanced tab there and check on "Use windows display calibration".
In Intel driver settings, my monitor is currently connected through a displayport to hdmi adapter and in the settings I have "full range" under qualitative, it content "off" and in color settings I have YCbCr set (this is running in 4:4:4 mode for me, not 4:2:x).
Be careful what sharpness level you have the display set to.. you want to avoid white ringing around black or black ringing around white. Use a calibration pattern. On my monitor I was using 40 for a long time which is sharper than 50, but I've recently determined I was experiencing more ringing/haloing around letters than with 50 and this was more visible because I don't use anti-aliasing around text. Optimal setting depends on the display being used.
Use the Inspectre tool to turn off spectre and meltdown protection to regain some system responsiveness especially if you have an older CPU.
I have been experimenting with Windows 10 Cobalt, which will probably end up as 21H2. The insider preview has now been designated as co_release. I tested a previous build and now the latest build 21354.1.
At the very least it is not better than 2004 and 20H2, and I think it may be worse.
Best not to assume it will stay this way forever, I've noticed things changing on the 2004/20h2 branch because of fixes and stuff, so whatever it ships with, will not remain static.
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A couple of days ago I accidentally upgraded to 1909. That was a rough experience indeed. I didn't know it could be rolled back pretty easily, so I kind of panicked and tried to install Windows 7 then searched for 2015 LTSB etc. The former can't be installed on my system and the latter can't be legally activated anymore from what I've learned.
So my question: is 20H2 indeed the same as 2004? I ended up installing 20H2 which instantly feels bad (uncomfortable) for my nerves. Not terrible but this is a stark contrast to 1903 from which I upgraded. I wonder if I should try 2004 now. Or return to kind of safe 1903.
I think that we have the same problem/sensitivity. I am stuck with the 1809 / 1903 too and I am not able to use W10 1909/2004 with 3 different computers (really different, I mean one gaming desktop with AMD GPU and 240hz monitor vs 2 notebooks with intel GPU).
Honestly, I dint try 20H2 and 21H1 because I want to try directly W11 but if you are on 20H2 I suggest you update to the last version 21H1 just to give it a try!
If you want to use a LTSB / LTSC build you can find the 2019 that is built on W10 1809!
What happens if you use Anydesk or Teamviewer etc and then use the system from another device?
It's like… taking a picture of a room lit by bad LED's or "full spectrum" fluorescent bulbs. The room looks dark and flickery to me, but I take a picture with my phone and it's like "hey what a nice room".
Teamviewer or Logmein would be the same - rendering a picture of your bad desktop on your good desktop.
If I try a Windows 10 virtual machine on a Good Windows 7 system, the virtual machine WILL trigger my symptoms.
Be interested to see if https://parsec.app/
works for you the same way teamviewer does.
The latency with parsec is fast enough for gaming from another computer.