heatlesssun
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There plenty of scenarios where a full screen Metro app is fine. Media playback, reading, gaming, even certain types of business apps like point of sale, etc.
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The Charms Bar is always in the bottom-left corner, on every machine.Not sure if anyone has noticed this but if the Start Bar is an any side of the screen other than the bottom the Start "menu" does not show up. Very annoying.
Why? 90% of the time, I have outlook or Visual Studio full-screen on one monitor and a browser full-screen on the other? I use quite a few of my apps full-screen. Metro's no different there. The few times I need things side-by-side are in apps that should stay in the desktop rather than becoming immersive anyway.Comparing, on a desktop PC, a machine running only Metro Apps, vs a Win7 desktop running only traditional apps the former will be far less efficient at getting work done over the latter. Only two visible apps (assuming the resolution is high enough) and no desktop is extremely limiting. The ability to run my apps in windows and have more than two visible apps at once is critical and non-negotiable.
I have to switch the start screen button to one of my side monitors when I play bad company 2 as my mouse keeps clicking the start button whilst ingame and bringing me out to the green start screen. Other than that I have no issues
I've had that happen on Win7 plenty of times; I doubt that's a Win8 issue.Steam playing TF2 was playing fine until after the 4th or so time I fiddled with the in game video settings and then it dumped me to the desktop and I couldn't click on anything and I couldn't alt-tab back into the game .. had to shutdown tf2 and hl2.exe via task manager
Interesting, I've not seen that problem with the full screen games I've tried though I've not tried BC2 in Windows 8 yet.
Ultramon won't work properly for me in win8 for spanning desktops, it crashes out with an error. Display fusion however works fine if you check the "adjust background for use with active desktop" box
http://www.displayfusion.com/
giving up on WIn 8 Dev....Win 7 going on this weekend......too many glitches that i cannot live with, going wit the way I actually use the tablet (the driver glitch for the pen, having to hard reset ALOT, no use of metro apps[goes straight to the "store" which is unavailable] .... decent as an OS, long way to go before I can use as a DD on my tablet
Well, considering it was not meant to be used for anything other than development I can imagine why it doesn't make for a stable daily use OS.
Was worth a shot, its stable enough for use, just some glitches that are rather annoying, WIn 7 is far from my prefered tablet OS, wanted to try something optimized for touch (8 is close, but not there yet), the handwriting recognition is tons better in Win 8
Windows 8 supports most products on Windows 7 right? Just wondering how people are liking it, I won't try the beta until the official release anyways.
Is anybody here running Windows 8 on a multiple video-card system (not to be confused with a multiple monitor system which does not necessarily require multiple video cards).
If so I would be curious whether you've had any issues with DWM (massive memory spiking or Windows disabling Aero or Warning about resource/memory usage in systray) when using a GPU accelerated application on a monitor that is powered by the non-primary video card.
If not I am curious whether you have CrossFire or SLI enabled.
Currently running Process Explorer and examining dwm.exe's specific memory usage while using Applications that use Microsoft's GPU Acceleration API results in some outrageous memory allocations on all systems I've used.
Interesting, do you think the issue you list would be present on a dual GPU, switchable graphics laptop? All I have to do is throw in my Win 8 HDD into my new dv6t to test.
Posssibly, From the posts that I've seen on Microsoft's Connect Website there appears to be users running laptops with 2 GPU (one Intel and a NNVIDIA/ATI) reporting problems with IE9 and Firefox's GPU Acceleration disabling Aero. I am unable to confirm whether this is related to the problem but in almost all of the reported instances the user is leveraging both GPU with secondary monitors.
The issue is easily monitorable if you are familiar with using Process Explorer and monitoring the dwm.exe process using the above instructions and happens to all applications that are using Microsoft's new DX GPU API. The most common ones I know of are IE9/Firefox with GPU acceleration enabled.