"Gaming on Windows 10? Spotty.

Games these days are often buggy, graphics drivers are buggy, Windows is famous for its bugs.

Put it all together, and what do you get? Bugs, bugs, bugs. (Try to imagine Marcus from Borderlands saying that.) I couldn't even get Red Dead Redemption 2 to start, Borderlands 3 was chunking along, but seems to have decided to run okay even in DirectX 12 mode lately, and GTA V/Online still spits D3D Initialization Errors at you if you turn Tesselation on. Or give the game a look it doesn't like. Or sneeze.


Honestly, with the release notes for the Intel driver since I bought this laptop, there have been a lot of problems with the driver itself and it can be hard to delineate blame in these cases. For example, CyberPunk 2077 was the game that ruined Christmas. And while Windows itself has had plenty of these going back to WinG (the predecessor of DirectX) messing up The Lion King in 1994, Intel has squashed dozens of problems on its side of the fence with this one title."