Is MS 2026 really any better?

ron-griswold wrote on 7/27/2025, 6:31 PM

As i get the sales pop-up's when MS 2024 starts i have to ask the question.. Is 2026 really any different/better than 2024? it looks " as far as i can see" pretty much the same . Same add-on's etc. i think Respeedr v2 is newer . thoughts ? the good ,the bad and the ugly ... Don't see enough there to warrant upgrading

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CubeAce wrote on 7/27/2025, 8:30 PM

@ron-griswold

Hi Ron.

I am on the same version 2024 as yourself.

There have been a few updates to the base program including a few AI based ones that I am not really interested in and can't get best use of as I have the same processor as yourself if your Signature is up to date. The specs say I would need a 10th gen processor minimum to fully take advantage of some features.

I think those features would still work but may well hinder playback and export performance if some of those AI features were used. Also we both can already export to AV1 but are limited to using the CPU for processing as neither of us has an nvidia 4070 or higher GPU which is the minimum spec for hardware encoding.

So while there have been some additional features to the base program neither of us can get the best use of them IMHO.

Ray.

 

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