Windows 8, the end of 4k on windows?

category: general [glöplog]

Ok, apparently we're not supposed to close metro apps. It's just like iOS, but being on windows it kind of throws you :)

Shifter: it's worrying for me because the iPad isn't exactly a great demo platform. The hardware is nice, but distribution isn't. Metro is the same, apps only available from the store, binaries must be signed & approved, and you can't easily quit an app.

I'd assumed that the new arm tablets would only run metro, because full windows doesn't make much sense on that kind of hardware and legacy stuff won't run anyway. But I've since seen photos of arm tablets running the normal desktop, so maybe it's not a problem.

added on the 2011-09-15 08:47:59 by psonice

Can't try this right now, but it looks like there's a possibility to close apps!

Source

added on the 2011-09-15 09:07:24 by Tomoya

What I'd really like to see is a backport of the fast-boot feature from Win8 back into Win7. THAT is the biggest feature for me. And from what I've read about it, it seems possible.

added on the 2011-09-15 09:24:02 by ChaosCom

You can backport it yourself. Just buy an SSD. Works for me (tm).

added on the 2011-09-15 09:44:33 by raer

Tomoya: Thanks :) And fucking to the CTRL-ALT-DEL suggestions :)

added on the 2011-09-15 09:56:07 by Zplex

Right. There's zero chance I could have discovered that myself, I was running it in a window in vmware ;) It's another touchscreen feature though, and will it work with regular windows apps or do we get different methods of closing apps in different places? Although if metro apps auto-quit/resume like iOS apps it's irrelevant anyway, we just have to forget closing them :)

added on the 2011-09-15 10:42:15 by psonice

And apparently you can go back to Win7 look :)

Quote:

To get back the old start menu, open regedit, goto

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer

change value of RPEnabled from "1" to "0"

close regedit, you get your old start menu......the catch is, no more metro UI because you just disabled it. To get back the Metro UI, change the value back to "1"

added on the 2011-09-15 17:41:05 by Tomoya

Nice find Tomoya, i have created 2 accounts, one with Metro and one without :)

And 4k intros runs like a charm (after installing Win7 graphic driver), the OS is just a optimized version of Win7 isn`t it?

added on the 2011-09-15 21:08:37 by Zplex

So just for the fuck of it i installed the dx11 sdk for the dll's and tried some 4k's on Windows 8 64bit with the bundled nvidia drivers...

Traskogen, S.P.H.E.A.R, sunr4y and the mandatory Texas...

As expected, none of them work. For now.

added on the 2011-09-15 21:08:56 by nerve

@Zplex Ooops, thats... interesting. Nvidia?

added on the 2011-09-15 21:12:54 by nerve

nerve: Weird, sunr4y runs here on an old laptop (with bad framerate ofcourse), but it fricking runs :)

added on the 2011-09-15 21:15:29 by Zplex

In this case Nvidia Geforce Go 7600 :)

Havent tried Win8 on my main PC (Nvidia GTX 570).

added on the 2011-09-15 21:16:15 by Zplex

Nerve: The other prods didnt run here because they require DX 10 or DX 11, graphics card is to old.

added on the 2011-09-15 21:24:04 by Zplex

Here it's my dear dear old 8800GT. But at least it seems to be a graphics driver issue and not a dead end.

added on the 2011-09-15 21:24:31 by nerve

They need whatnow? :) Damn, vidcaps are killing my ability to figure out how run shit properly. :P

added on the 2011-09-15 21:26:20 by nerve

Chaos Theory 4k runs, a white square + a oval shape that changes colours behind it :) Well, nice to see things without shaders active :)

So crinkler based 4k intros runs

added on the 2011-09-15 21:35:40 by Zplex

Yes, it does seem the Windows 8 loader has no problem with Crinkler-compressed intros. It's probably just Windows 7 underneath anyway. :)

added on the 2011-09-17 17:08:20 by Blueberry