We’re hoping you will help us test the HDXPRT 2012 beta on your latest systems under Windows 8.
As Bill discussed a couple weeks ago, the beta of HDXPRT 2012 has some problems with Windows 8 and consequently will not install. However, with the latest version of Windows 8 Consumer Preview, some of the issues seem to be better. Using some command-line options, you can get around the installation restrictions. That is what we have been doing in our lab. The complete details of how to install and run the beta on the Windows 8 Consumer Preview are in this forum post (login required).
(Don’t worry, we hate hidden options as well, and there should not be any in the shipping version!)
Please let us know what you find out on your systems, either in the forum or via email. We have encountered some crashes in apps and we’d like to know what you find. We provide some instructions for running individual workloads in case you need to work around such an issue. We are also interested in hearing if you see any performance differences between Windows 7 and Windows 8 that don’t make sense to you. While the Consumer Preview license does not allow the publishing of performance results, we still need to start the process of understanding what is going on with Windows 8.
Thank you so much for your efforts to make HDXPRT 2012 as good as possible!
Eric
