The time period for the free upgrade to Windows 10 is winding down, and I'd appreciate information from people who upgraded to Windows 10 on whether it's stable, especially from a gaming perspective.
My situation:
My computer is crashing intermittently (monitors go blank, weird buzzing coming from my sound system) and the reliability monitor is blaming a video hardware error, so I'm currently planning on getting a gtx 1080 once the supply issue has resolved.
My computer has a fairly significant svchost memory leak, such that it'll gobble up 7-10 GB of RAM. It would eventually take more, but a reboot resolves the issue for a few days. (I'm 99% positive this isn't a virus since it ramps up slowly over time like a true memory leak, the actual processes are legit windows 7 processes, and they're located within the Windows 7 folders appropriate for their processes.)
Would upgrading to Windows 10 be beneficial?
I hesitate to upgrade because I still have a number of Steam (read: old) games that I want to play someday, and typically that gets harder to do as you upgrade operating systems. I did read online that Windows 10 seems to do fine with certain games, but most of the articles were written right before its release a year ago or immediately after, when a number of bugs may not have been found.
When I was discussing this with another group, one of the people said that their experience with Windows 10 is that it has more memory leaks than Windows 7, which is a major reason why I'd consider the upgrade.
tldr What has your gaming experience been with Windows 10? Have you had trouble with memory leaks or anything else that would make you prefer Windows 7?
Thanks for any info you can share!