• Windows 8
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[QUOTE=Jimmy422;39535877]I haven't gotten to installing it yet, but I will do that probably tonight.[/QUOTE] Nice, some screenshots of the brushstrokes with all the pressure settings on would be amazing, thanks (and does anyone know how many pressure levels are supported by the pen?)
anyone who has a surface pro: can you test civ V on it?
Why do more people not use Start8 in windows 8 mode? The mini metro is better than full metro and far better than the old style start menu.
I would hardly call something like Start8 bloat because it can actually be pretty beneficial to people that don't want a full-screen solution
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;39538978]Its additional bloat that isn't beneficial to me in the slightest.[/QUOTE] Aye referring more to the people who are using it in windows 7 mode rather than not at all
[QUOTE=a2h;39536295]Considering that hardly any websites care about retina let alone something like the Surface's 1.4 dppx, how's the browsing experience Particularly with images[/QUOTE] Everything is scaled up to 150%. It doesn't look that bad, but if you look hard enough you'll see that things are a little blurry. Any programs that aren't designed to scale look awful. [img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/r4P2Hwu.jpg[/img_thumb] [editline]10th February 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=theLazyLion;39537920]Nice, some screenshots of the brushstrokes with all the pressure settings on would be amazing, thanks (and does anyone know how many pressure levels are supported by the pen?)[/QUOTE] 1024 levels are supposedly included. It's not working in photoshop though. [img]http://i.imgur.com/TDVS0LQ.png[/img]
I'd say Photoshop just needs something to patch it in. It's probably not set up to work with the inbuilt drivers. In another note, my wireless has been dropping and reconnecting since a bit before I installed Windows 8. Is that a sign of a driver issue, or a busted wireless card?
That's odd, my pressure sensitivity works just fine in Photoshop. Oh dear, 666th post.
[QUOTE=woolio1;39542927]I'd say Photoshop just needs something to patch it in. It's probably not set up to work with the inbuilt drivers. In another note, my wireless has been dropping and reconnecting since a bit before I installed Windows 8. Is that a sign of a driver issue, or a busted wireless card?[/QUOTE] If it just started in Win8 and nothing else about the network changed, I would say its driver issues. Though a flakey wireless card isn't something to rule out. Check to make sure if they are up to date.
[QUOTE=Jimmy422;39539614]Everything is scaled up to 150%. It doesn't look that bad, but if you look hard enough you'll see that things are a little blurry. Any programs that aren't designed to scale look awful. [img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/r4P2Hwu.jpg[/img_thumb] [editline]10th February 2013[/editline] 1024 levels are supposedly included. It's not working in photoshop though. [img]http://i.imgur.com/TDVS0LQ.png[/img][/QUOTE] Does it work in GIMP? Look around for pen options in PS. [editline]11th February 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Amiga OS;39539193]I have far more important software to load on boot, like the fan controller that stops my Fermi burning the house down.[/QUOTE] You must have a very slow drive if that actually becomes a problem
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;39544025]125MB/s read.[/QUOTE] I'm sure you can bare the extra second while Start8 loads On topic of DPI, Adobe products are the perfect example of applications which [I]Do not scale well at all[/I].
[QUOTE=Demache;39543789]If it just started in Win8 and nothing else about the network changed, I would say its driver issues. Though a flakey wireless card isn't something to rule out. Check to make sure if they are up to date.[/QUOTE] It started about two weeks before I installed Windows 8. The drivers for my card are only available up to Vista, so I've been using the Microsoft drivers. I'm thinking it's the card, since I can unplug one antenna cable and it'll work perfectly fine, but at half speed.
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;39544046]I'm sure you can bare the extra second while Start8 loads On topic of DPI, Adobe products are the perfect example of applications which [I]Do not scale well at all[/I].[/QUOTE] In that second, I could have clicked the desktop thing in metro. [editline]10th February 2013[/editline] Or forget that you have to do that on startup and hit the escape key a thousand times like I normally do.
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[QUOTE=loophole;39544686]In that second, I could have clicked the desktop thing in metro. [editline]10th February 2013[/editline] Or forget that you have to do that on startup and hit the escape key a thousand times like I normally do.[/QUOTE] It doesn't even take any extra time on my dual core laptop so uh..
[QUOTE=loophole;39544686]In that second, I could have clicked the desktop thing in metro. [editline]10th February 2013[/editline] Or forget that you have to do that on startup and hit the escape key a thousand times like I normally do.[/QUOTE] I don't even have to do that. It kicks me out to Firefox to pull up the Cisco NAC login page. Not sure why Windows 8 does that, but works for me.
The DPI scaling in Windows 7 breaks some full screen stuff, like the taskbar sits over Youtube's full-screen window and Steam Big Picture unless I go into compatibility and disable DPI scaling on that application. Which is an issue, since I'm running into this problem on my HTPC, and it's almost impossible to read Steam chat messages or browse menus in Chrome when it's on a 39" 1080p screen across the room.
[QUOTE=Jimmy422;39539614] 1024 levels are supposedly included. It's not working in photoshop though. [/QUOTE] You need to have the settings enabled in the brush panel. Click on window, and then click on Brush, you'll get this toolbox pop up. [img]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/12913216/Screenshots/brush%20settings.jpg[/img] Just turn on shape dynamic(pressure sensitive size) and transfer dynamics(pressure sensitive value) and then pressure sensitivity should be on and working in Photoshop.
[QUOTE=theLazyLion;39549631]You need to have the settings enabled in the brush panel. Click on window, and then click on Brush, you'll get this toolbox pop up. [img]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/12913216/Screenshots/brush%20settings.jpg[/img] Just turn on shape dynamic(pressure sensitive size) and transfer dynamics(pressure sensitive value) and then pressure sensitivity should be on and working in Photoshop.[/QUOTE] No dice. Still not working. [editline]11th February 2013[/editline] Oh, okay. According tho [url=http://www.ubergizmo.com/2013/02/surface-pro-photoshop-support/]these guys[/url], pressure sensitivity isn't working yet with the Surface and CS6.
Oh, that's pretty bad, and retarded, how did MS fuck up that badly. Seems like only Metro note apps support pressure sense while the real programs like Photoshop and painter don't. Even though other tabs like the Samsung ativ supports pressure sense like any other wacon tablet in the market. Apparently MS is dropping support for wintab and is forcing their own custom api which no one is supporting yet. Which is pretty dumb on their part, they should have at least gotten support from the major graphics firms before launching with a broken worthless pen. Looks like no Surface Pro for me.
[QUOTE=theLazyLion;39553762]Oh, that's pretty bad, and retarded, how did MS fuck up that badly. Seems like only Metro note apps support pressure sense while the real programs like Photoshop and painter don't. Even though other tabs like the Samsung ativ supports pressure sense like any other wacon tablet in the market. Apparently MS is dropping support for wintab and is forcing their own custom api which no one is supporting yet. Which is pretty dumb on their part, they should have at least gotten support from the major graphics firms before launching with a broken worthless pen. Looks like no Surface Pro for me.[/QUOTE] I can't tell if you're trolling or being dumb. Microsoft has a new pen API that Photoshop hasn't implemented, all they have to do is implement it in an update or have Microsoft make it backwards compatible. Either way a fix is going to happen. Microsoft isn't dumb. They know plenty of people are buying this tablet for the pen and compatibility with x86 apps such as Photoshop, so they're not going to ignore it.
I have no idea wtf is going on, but I seem to be running out of memory pretty often which is weird considering I have 8GB. I'll just be browsing and a low memory error will pop up. I check task manager and it shows >90% usage even though all the processes added together don't even use up a quarter of my RAM. 3570K P8Z77V Pro GTX 670 8GB Win8 Pro 64bit
did you disable swap
A lot of people say it's AMD drivers but I have nVidia soooo yeah. The hell. [editline]11th February 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Ezhik;39555051]did you disable swap[/QUOTE] Nope, I have it set to 4096-4096 on C.
So I think I just somehow fucked up my mbr while adding an entry for linux mint using easyBCD, and can't boot into windows. I stupidly forgot to create a recovery disk thing so I'm pretty much fucked. Anyone got any ideas?
microsoft says they're working with adobe and various other software devs to figure out why the wacom pen wont work
[QUOTE=Jimmy422;39553980]I can't tell if you're trolling or being dumb. Microsoft has a new pen API that Photoshop hasn't implemented, all they have to do is implement it in an update or have Microsoft make it backwards compatible. Either way a fix is going to happen. Microsoft isn't dumb. They know plenty of people are buying this tablet for the pen and compatibility with x86 apps such as Photoshop, so they're not going to ignore it.[/QUOTE] Why the new pen API that only works on metro apps? Why release this without getting full support of real graphics programs first. As a professional in the art industry I wanted to get this tablet as a portable painting tablet, hopefully use it to paint during my long trips from san fran to dubai and vise versa, but seeing as it's pen is worthless in major programs I see no reason to get one for its price. Samsung Ativ pro has almost around the same specs, might not be as good as the surface pro, but at least the fucking pen works. If I wanted to use those small drawing apps i might as well just be using my galaxy note 2 to do my sketches in.
I'm looking for a windows 8 tablet/laptop hybrid. Anyone know of any good ones? I have a transformer, so are there any tablets like mine, except it can go both tablet and desktop?
[QUOTE=theLazyLion;39559115]Why the new pen API that only works on metro apps? Why release this without getting full support of real graphics programs first. As a professional in the art industry I wanted to get this tablet as a portable painting tablet, hopefully use it to paint during my long trips from san fran to dubai and vise versa, but seeing as it's pen is worthless in major programs I see no reason to get one for its price. Samsung Ativ pro has almost around the same specs, might not be as good as the surface pro, but at least the fucking pen works. If I wanted to use those small drawing apps i might as well just be using my galaxy note 2 to do my sketches in.[/QUOTE] Who said anything about only Metro? You can still use Sai, inkscape, GIMP, Painter etc.
[QUOTE=shian;39560395]I'm looking for a windows 8 tablet/laptop hybrid. Anyone know of any good ones? I have a transformer, so are there any tablets like mine, except it can go both tablet and desktop?[/QUOTE] I would look at a lenevo.
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