nitro 5 I need some help, I just don't want to start having issues if I lost something important.

So I'm very very new to PC gaming. I bought my nitro 5 only to play oculus games through link. Which I've accomplished however. I downgraded from windows 11 to windows 10 to be able to do it. From what I can tell I pretty much lost everything that came on this computer. But it's working for what I want, i still have bluetooth, and nitro sense, which i wanted. Do you guys think I lost all the drivers and everything or would all that have been transfered and I'm fine? I literally don't care about any thing but my games. And I have 413 gb now to throw at my games. Since I'm using an external SSD. I just don't want to start having issues if I lost something important.

[Edited the thread to add model name to the title and to add issue detail]

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StevenGen

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/683082/i-need-some-help

What is your laptops exact model number? As it’s a bit hard to advise you on specific details if you don’t give us that very important information, as all laptops are different, is your laptop a gaming laptop like the Nitro or predator or is its an Aspire that is a dual function laptop or is another laptop.

But saying all the above, I presume that for Oculus games you must have either an Acer Nitro or a Predator laptop, as they are the best Acer laptops for Oculus Quest VR-Ready. So with these laptops its very important that your laptop has at least 16GB preferably 32GB installed with their fastest ram like the DDR4-3200MHz or with the newest laptops the DDR5-4800Mhz ram and a fast M.2 SSD drive for these games.

With the software, you have to have all windows updates and drivers up to date and especially setup and install the software properly and have allk this software up to their latest versions, so you need to do this, install the Intel® Driver & Support Assistant and scan your laptop, then get the latest NVidia driver and also install the GeForce Experience software and run your games within this software to utilise NVidia’s ultimate settings for your gaming and also set Nvidia Control Panel at Program Settings for these games or your high end software to the High-performance Nvidia processor, as all these settings and driver updates will most certainly make sure that your laptop will perform to its best within Win-10 but you should seriously consider installing Win-11 as if you have a new Nitro or a Predator laptop Win-11 is the best OS that these laptops were designed and even if your games were designed for Win-10 they will work perfectly within Win-11.

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Puraw

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/683082/i-need-some-help

Did you downgraded within the 10 day period after W11 was installed or did you do a Clean Windows 10 install, any issues when you did a clean install, did you reformat first or installed over Windows 11? What W10 version and build do you have now (type WINVER in Run)?

Check Device Manager if you see any yellow problem icons (also check hidden devices) and run the following line in the Command Prompt openend as administrator (make sure you are connected to the internet):

Dism.exe /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth

that should return "successfully completed"

Then run also in the Command Prompt opened as administrtor: SFC /scannow (note the space befor /) If that returns with "no integrity violation" you are OK, if SFC finds bad files and repaired them or not, run SFC again till OK.

If you are using fast Startup (in Power plan) disable that and reboot, then open Event Viewer and check for Event errors if there are critical errors let us now or browse the Internet what the error code means.

You will have to upgrade again to W11 in Q4 2025 as W10 will be no longer supported by MS.

StevenGen

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/683082/i-need-some-help

What is your laptops exact model number? As it’s a bit hard to advise you on specific details if you don’t give us that very important information, as all laptops are different, is your laptop a gaming laptop like the Nitro or predator or is its an Aspire that is a dual function laptop or is another laptop.

But saying all the above, I presume that for Oculus games you must have either an Acer Nitro or a Predator laptop, as they are the best Acer laptops for Oculus Quest VR-Ready. So with these laptops its very important that your laptop has at least 16GB preferably 32GB installed with their fastest ram like the DDR4-3200MHz or with the newest laptops the DDR5-4800Mhz ram and a fast M.2 SSD drive for these games.

With the software, you have to have all windows updates and drivers up to date and especially setup and install the software properly and have allk this software up to their latest versions, so you need to do this, install the Intel® Driver & Support Assistant and scan your laptop, then get the latest NVidia driver and also install the GeForce Experience software and run your games within this software to utilise NVidia’s ultimate settings for your gaming and also set Nvidia Control Panel at Program Settings for these games or your high end software to the High-performance Nvidia processor, as all these settings and driver updates will most certainly make sure that your laptop will perform to its best within Win-10 but you should seriously consider installing Win-11 as if you have a new Nitro or a Predator laptop Win-11 is the best OS that these laptops were designed and even if your games were designed for Win-10 they will work perfectly within Win-11.

Jonnewby38

Ok thank you both very much, I'm about to check everything you both just wrote. I have a 12th gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-12500 3.10 GHz 16.0 GB with 15.7 GB usable which is way more since I did this windows 10 downgrade. I know I downloaded windows Home. I did it because when I started my games they were all choppy and slow. Oculus on its website said it worked with windows 10 better. Which was very frustrating to me. Ok Windows Build 19045.2728, I don't know what an iso is but I created one in my file explorer. I clicked on it and just installed the windows the 10, ran it, opened it and here I am. This computer came with 11 and i sure woukd have liked to keep it. But things just wouldnt work. ok i still have my Nvidia control panel and I'm pretty sure that's gotta do with my graphics card, I do have tye I'm in device manager, the only weird thing I see is three spots under ----other devices- there are 9 things missing drivers, I can update those drivers here. Should I do that? Three are unknown devices. Then base system device, multimedia audio, pci data and signal process, pci device, sm bus controller, serial bus USB controller. I'm working on every step you guys mentioned. Ok Puraw I ran every scan all is well thank you so much it all passed. Steven I'm about to download all you've suggested thank you so much as well.

Jonnewby38

I set up all you suggested Steven I think I'm good to go. I downloaded all the drivers intel suggested and set my nividia processor up to be used. I think I'm gonna have all I originally had on here to play my games. I just wonder if I should update those few drivers I saw were yellow In the device manager.