Yes, I understand it's a "preview". That's why I've tried the "out of the mainstream" apps that I enjoy on it. The Metro apps of Win8 are interesting and some may even be useful, especially with the way Win8 is designed to work on TouchScreen devices. Should be a good option for phones and Tablets IF they can get the way it consumes memory sorted out. Presently it seems that if you have opened a Metro App that app remains in memory until you specifically close or exit it from Task Manager ( much the same way that Win Mobile 6.5 does ). I understand their thinking about the way phones or tablets may be used and the desire to have the most commonly accessed "apps" launch instantly. But for a Desktop or laptop system this may not be the best unless 4GB (or more) of memory becomes standard (the way desktop or laptop machines are typically used ).
It also seems from surveying the .NET software installed on the Win8 machine versus the Win7 one - that .NET ver. 2 cannot be installed on the Win8 machine.
The Win7 machine shows ( using Belarc's ADVISOR ) that .NET 2, .NET 3, and .NET 4 Frameworks are installed.
The Win 8 machine shows that only .NET 3 & .Net 4 Frameworks are installed. Attempting to install the .NET 2 from the redistribution copy of/in CoDhas no apparent effect. Don't know if the .NET 2 Framework redistributable on Microsoft's website is different and would be allowed to install on Win8 ( version number is the same so probably not but... ).
- Does anyone know if CoD relies on any .NET 2 code to run ?
- Are .NET 3 & 4 "backwards compatible" ( wouldn't seem so if the Win7 machine has programs that require .NET 2 to run & there'd be no reason to have .NET 3 remain on a machine if .NET 4 was in use) ?
- When I tried to install .NET 2 from the CoD redistrib a Win8 dialog displayed asking if I really wanted to do it and then when I "allowed it" the same dialog box showed only that .NET 3.5.1 had been refreshed/altered/ or some such thing.
- Does CoD (presently) require any .NET 2 code to run and is the "graphics rewrite " going to change that ?
- Since CoD won't launch on this Win8 machine and the older IL2-1946 (which apparently being older has had no .NET code ) and X-Plane10 ( since it is multi-platform couldn't rely on .NET code ) do run well, could that be the issue and going forward will mean maintaining a Win7 machine for CoD and its future expansions or siblings ?
Just thinking out loud ...
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