cclarry
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Windows 8.1 is available
Windows 8.1 is available... I highly advise against upgrading until you are sure that your interface provider has a Win 8.1 driver available. I know that my Roland QuadCapture will not work under Win 8.1, so I'm waiting for an updated driver. Also, there is no telling what this will do to X3b.... Just a heads up... http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/download-shop
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Mesh
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Re: Windows 8.1 is available
2013/10/17 10:14:17
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cclarry
Windows 8.1 is available...
I highly advise against upgrading until you are sure that
your interface provider has a Win 8.1 driver available.
I know that my Roland QuadCapture will not work under Win 8.1,
so I'm waiting for an updated driver.
Also, there is no telling what this will do to X3b....
Just a heads up...
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/download-shop
Good point Larry.....I'm very happy with the stability of Win8 where everyone is getting along nicely and I'm in the camp of "if it ain't broke......". I'm also not sure of what benefits 8.1 has to offer (of course, it might help to read and edumacate meself first). 
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cclarry
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Re: Windows 8.1 is available
2013/10/17 10:30:06
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Mesh,
I know that X2a worked perfectly on 8.1....and all my hardware worked...
except the QC...it wouldn't even recognize it at all...
Luckily, I have 8.1 Preview on a different harddrive, and can swap them out at will
when I want to use it. If Roland get's an 8.1 driver out soon I'll install it on the
preview to make sure it works before upgrading the main to 8.1...
Then we'll see how X3 handles 8.1 ...I'll keep ya posted...
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LANEY
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Re: Windows 8.1 is available
2013/10/17 14:17:16
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I am really enjoying 8.1 on my laptop. Still running Win 7 on my DAW though!
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Re: Windows 8.1 is available
2013/10/18 09:05:05
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8.1 preview worked great with X3 here. My only nag is when using Soundforge 8 I'm prompted to download an older version of some type of database (not at my pc now to write which one that is right now) when I start the program. I cancel that popup and SF8 works fine. Surprising, WIN 8.1 operates one of my treasured legacy XP programs that interfaces with the Johnson J-Station just fine. I agree with Larry in regards to making sure your interface is supported. I downloaded and installed the rtm version overnight - I'll check out X3 this evening. But with it working great on the preview version of 8.1, I expect no problems.
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cclarry
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Re: Windows 8.1 is available
2013/10/18 09:10:19
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musicroom
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Re: Windows 8.1 is available
2013/10/18 20:59:35
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I take it back - the official 8.1 release will not let sonar x2 or x3 run... Missing MSVCR110.dll... Anyone else?
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TheSteven
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Re: Windows 8.1 is available
2013/10/18 22:40:34
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joakes
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Re: Windows 8.1 is available
2013/10/19 03:55:44
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Tried 2x to install W8 - it hosed my c drive both times after a week and so had a complete re install of W7 to do. And no, no user error involved.
Personally i'll stick with W7 at least for the near future.
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cclarry
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Re: Windows 8.1 is available
2013/10/19 08:12:31
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musicroom
I take it back - the official 8.1 release will not let sonar x2 or x3 run... Missing MSVCR110.dll... Anyone else?
musicroom, I did the upgrade and all is fine. Only issue I'm currently having is with moving the faders in X3b. They jump like rabbits to the top and bottom when attempted to increment them. Other then that, so far, all is well. Will keep everyone posted if I find a resolution.
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musicroom
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Re: Windows 8.1 is available
2013/10/19 09:16:08
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Something must have gone wrong in the install. I rolled back to the preview version for now. I'll try again after X3c is released.
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JohnKenn
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Re: Windows 8.1 is available
2013/10/19 20:44:27
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Feel like I been raped. Since nobody brought this up, just my dumb again for not reading the fine print.
Installed the preview version of win 8.1 several months ago. Good vibes, check out what the MS bastards got in store for you. Send in your beta experience so win 8.1 will be the best OS in the universe. Win 8.1 final a free upgrade.
Win 8.1 released now with the threat of the preview beta designed to crash in Jan 2014. Knew this would terminate. Take action quick before we wipe you out. No problem on a dated expiration of a beta.
Problem for me was you can't update from the preview and maintain your current profile without spending 120-200 dollars to get an install that won't wipe everything out.
Legal crap in the fine print is that you can go back to win 8 and get the free update after you have tested it and given us your feedback.
Several months of progressive changes to be anihilated if I elect to go back to the computer out of the box. Did this and spent about 20 hours reinstalling and tweaking things to back where they were before the ripoff.
Respect MS for how they have advanced global communication. Gates foundation respect for charitable contributions.
These guys can roast in hell for holding the lay user hostage. Severely immoral business practices.
My advice if I'm not missing something critical...
Don't install the win 8.1 preview, which they still have out there as bait to destroy your operating system.
Estimate I worked for under 10 dollars per hour to flip these bastards the middle finger.
John
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TheSteven
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Re: Windows 8.1 is available
2013/10/19 22:58:29
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Have you checked out the Microsoft has a web page Update from Windows 8.1 Preview to Windows 8.1 Or using the Windows 8 Transfer Wizard? I feel for you. For me an OS install is a major pain because it takes me weeks to finish getting all my stuff installed and my tweaks done. With Microsoft OS's I've always been reluctant to use a preview or beta version on anything other than a non-production system (something that I didn't care if it crashed & burned) or on a VM. There may have been an exception of two but my experience has been that the only stable way to migrate to the official release was to do a reformat and reinstallation. Hopefully that won't be necessary in your case.
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JohnKenn
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Re: Windows 8.1 is available
2013/10/20 11:49:50
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Stephen, I did see the page and was where I found the grim news. Problem with a transfer wizard is they have you download the upgrade from their store. They have also made the decision that no ISO upgrade files will be made available. If they see you are running the preview 8.1, the download link is not there so you don't have a destination to preserve. As soon as I reverted back to my computer out of the box (win8) the "free" upgrade was there. Wish I'd taken your advice earlier about beta OS. Never again. They covered themselves well from the start since after the installation it took out any restore points for win 8. It was also my fault for not doing a backup before installing. Things are back somewhat to normal. Results for all will vary, but I'm not getting any great benefit from 8.1 over 8.0. The upgrade adds a mandatory login by default and leaves a huge amount of debris in the C:\windows.old directory, which if you were running win preview, it is just garbage. I can post how to get rid of these if anyone needs. Another thing some may find useful. My understanding is that the user interface was one of the main complaints that win 8.1 was trying to address. I've used a program called Classic Shell on win 7 and win 8. This restores the start menu presentation of XP and makes it a lot easier to move around the programs. It is free, works well and was just updated a couple days ago to work more efficiently with win 8.1. http://www.classicshell.net/ Best to all, John
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