Will we need Windows 10 drivers to upgrade?

[Dos_Box]

What's going to be the score with these once launch day arrives? I have an Asus Z87 Deluxe motherboard and so far there seems to be zero 'new' drivers available.

Will it be like when the 7-8 upgrade came along and the older drivers - for the most part - happily got along with the new OS or will there be wailing and knashing of teeth when upgrades and installs fail for a lack of dedicated Win 10 critical drivers?

Just want to get my bases covered

[Michael]

I'd say there's a high probability the Windows 8.1 drivers will work absolutely fine with Windows 10. It would certainly do no harm to try!

[JRowley]

I don't think you'll need any new drivers.

[Michael]

The one thing I like about Windows 10 is you don't get bubble notifications if it's installing a driver in the notification area, doing it silently in the background instead.

 

Windows 10 should have a good driver database, but it'll never cover everything. Hopefully it'll install most USB 3 chipsets by default, which are becoming more a common problem.

[Dos_Box]

Ah, cool. All good then

[GuyJD]

every Windows 8.1 driver I've tried so far has worked with Windows 10

[MartinT]

Same here - everything that runs W8.1 so far has been successful with W10.

[Patrick]

Apart from the UX changes and additional features (search, cortana, start menu..etc) is there any actual difference in the Core OS from windows 8.x? I think they are fundamentally the same underneath so i highly doubt there will be any driver issues.

[MartinT]

I sense that there is even more optimisation for SSDs than before - the startup time with a Samsung 850 Evo is amazing. Otherwise, they got a lot right in W8.1.