8 Reasons You Shouldn't Upgrade to Windows 10 Just Yet

7. DirectX 12 Won't Magically Turbo-Charge Your Games

One of the most widely touted perks of Windows 10 is DirectX 12, the latest version of Microsoft's API designed to boost frame-rates and improve rendering, all while lowering power usage. A huge number of high-end games rely on DirectX to deliver the best performance, so an upgrade to it is a very big deal. Also, you can't get DirectX 12 if you don't have Windows 10. So you should get it straight away then, right? Not necessarily. Firstly, DirectX 12 won't be compatible with older graphics cards. If you have a mid-high-end graphics card (an AMD card using the GCN architecture, or an Nvidia card running on Kepler, Maxwell or Fermi GPUs), then you're OK. People running on an 4th-gen Intel processor or newer will also benefit from DX12. But even if you do meet the requirements, games relying on DirectX 12 will only start being released later in the year, so you may as well wait until then while Microsoft irons out the inevitable chinks in Windows 10. That, and the fact that DX12 won't work for everyone means that gamers don't need to upgrade to Windows 10 right away.