I find that extremely hard to believe. What graphics card is it?
[QUOTE=Protocol7;38958236]I find that extremely hard to believe. What graphics card is it?[/QUOTE]
ATI Radeon Xpress 200M Mobility Series. It's an old laptop, and according to the HP website, the latest drivers were for vista.
Hmm. You're right. Yeah, you should be fine installing the drivers in compatibility mode. Failing that, open the installer with your favorite archive opener, then point the device manager to the driver files.
He could also try generic Windows 8 drivers for the graphics card, might be better support than the HP provided ones
-shit im late-
I just got windows 8 and
my XP ran games faster and better.
I don't even know what to do or say, just It's making me want to switch back. Though I really only know little about technical crap.
[QUOTE=Mr.Dugong;38962833]I just got windows 8 and
my XP ran games faster and better.
I don't even know what to do or say, just It's making me want to switch back. Though I really only know little about technical crap.[/QUOTE]
What are your specs?
Really excited right now, I got a copy of windows 8 for christmas.
Preparing to install it soon.
[QUOTE=The Baconator;38955102]motherboard quality is underrated, imo it can make or break the PC experience too easily compared to say, the gpu or cpu[/QUOTE]
Aside from the neat features or extra ports you'd get from more expensive boards, I fail to understand this. It's not like the motherboard is going to lower performance or anything.
[QUOTE=Panda X;38963614]What are your specs?[/QUOTE]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/C5q6X.png[/img]
yeah reinstall xp
Windows 8 should run just fine on that, really. It's not that slow, and even an Atom does fairly well under Windows 8. Certain that you didn't change any settings in the games?
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;38967118]It was completely unusable on my single core turion.
Although I blame AMD's shitty drivers more for that.[/QUOTE]
A Sandy Bridge Pentium definitely isn't a Turion, though.
[QUOTE=Mr.Dugong;38963873][img]http://i.imgur.com/C5q6X.png[/img][/QUOTE]
why don't you have a motherboard
you should get one
And meanwhile I'm fighting with this
[t]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8664592/ShareX/2012-12/Update_Driver_Software_-_Unknown_Device_2012-12-25_15-38-56.png[/t]
Is it possible for me to install the system files on a small ssd and the home folder or whatever equivalent windows has on a separate but larger hdd?
Fuck yes, my dad gave me Windows 8 64 bit for Christmas!
oh what goooooooogle, you don't even know my dad
Best thing about windows 8 is Internet Explorer version.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/qVpPW.png[/IMG]
How would I extend the Windows 7 partition using that block of unallocated space? I can extend the Windows 8 partition, though the extend option is grayed out when I right click on the Windows 7 partition.
[QUOTE=benjgvps;38976281][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/qVpPW.png[/IMG]
How would I extend the Windows 7 partition using that block of unallocated space? I can extend the Windows 8 partition, though the extend option is grayed out when I right click on the Windows 7 partition.[/QUOTE]
Has to be to the right, that's how it works. Might be able to do some magic with third party software, but I don't know what to recommend.
[QUOTE=benjgvps;38976281][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/qVpPW.png[/IMG]
How would I extend the Windows 7 partition using that block of unallocated space? I can extend the Windows 8 partition, though the extend option is grayed out when I right click on the Windows 7 partition.[/QUOTE]
As stated above, you can only extend further down the disk, not backwards. Not sure if there are any tools that do that, but you could try making a new primary partition there (you'd have to use diskpart, even that might not work because windows insists on never letting you have 4 primary partitions, only 3 primary and then it'll automatically make the last one extended in diskmgmt) and clone all your things to the new partition in the old unallocated space, delete the current windows 7 partition and extend the new one down across all the unallocated space the deleted old one would leave behind.
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;38978545]Does anyone else have an issue with Wi-Fi on windows 8? No matter what you tell the bastard thing, it will not auto connect on boot, it asks me for the WPA2 pass code every single time, its happening on both my desktop and my laptop.
I have this issue across all 2 of my USB Wi-Fi dongles, my PCI Wi-Fi B/G card and my PCIe B/G/N card.[/QUOTE]
My desktop and laptop will both occasionally forget to connect, but it's not persistent. Rosewill USB N adapter and Intel WiFi link 1000.
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;38978545]Does anyone else have an issue with Wi-Fi on windows 8? No matter what you tell the bastard thing, it will not auto connect on boot, it asks me for the WPA2 pass code every single time, its happening on both my desktop and my laptop.
I have this issue across all 2 of my USB Wi-Fi dongles, my PCI Wi-Fi B/G card and my PCIe B/G/N card.[/QUOTE]
Yes it's pretty terrible, it can never pick up my Lumia's tether either.
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;38978545]Does anyone else have an issue with Wi-Fi on windows 8? No matter what you tell the bastard thing, it will not auto connect on boot, it asks me for the WPA2 pass code every single time, its happening on both my desktop and my laptop.
I have this issue across all 2 of my USB Wi-Fi dongles, my PCI Wi-Fi B/G card and my PCIe B/G/N card.[/QUOTE]
Seems to work fine for me on the built in one on my tablet.
Argh, and Windows 8 lockscreen can fuck off telling me it's the wrong password after taking 5 seconds to decide if it's right or not. It should also cache it locally better because if my PC goes offline it takes double the time to say you need to enter your PW again as you're offline.
it's a bruteforcing countermeasure
[QUOTE=Ezhik;38978712]it's a bruteforcing countermeasure[/QUOTE]
Even when it's right? If I was even in a rush on Windows 7 I would get my password right 9 out of 10 times, now I take my time entering it and still get it wrong apparently!
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;38978730]I've noticed after you swipe the lockscreen up and start typing immediately, it takes about 3 seconds for windows to actually switch focus to the password field, and you miss the first few characters off your password.
It usually takes me two attempts to log into my machine on a morning because of this.[/QUOTE]
Oh, so that's what's going on, thought I was slowly forgetting how to type...
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;38978852]Its even worse on a wireless keyboard because you don't know whether the batteries are running down and its dropping packets :v:[/QUOTE]
Makes me a bit paranoid because I haven't changed the batteries in my keyboard on over a year. No llow battery notification yet but....
Suddenly all of my metro apps lags like crazy, why?
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