Just wanted to let you know: After Effects CS3 is bitchy, unstable and has a bad performance: It crashes suddenly and with no reason, while it stays in RAM and on screen forever when you quit. And it produces errors with gray-scale and/or CMYK PNGs.
Only things that you believe are true, right? For example the crash of the Windows Explorer. It keeps telling me that this program has stopped working. But as long as you don’t click on the button everything works fine. Only after clicking it everything crashes and has to be fired up manually again. Well… Vista.
I love Valve‘s Steam network. No wait — I hate it! I feel like ranting: The last three hours I was working hard to get a Maya model exported, textured and imported into the game. And figuring out how the exporter handles textures was nearly half the deal.
Yesterday my HD-DVD drive arrived from Alternate. Bulk version, eighty bucks (Euros), no fancy-schmancy stuff attached like Pet-Print-Studio or crap like that. No, just plugged in and it works. Perfect! But I had no HD-DVD media at the time, so I thought I just go to the mall and get one. That’s when my odyssey started… yes, another one.
I just connected my Wii to the Web via a far too expensive original Nintendo Wi-Fi USB connector. And guess what doesn’t work with Vista 64 bit. Why did I purchase that crap anyway? So I had to hook up my notebook to the web causing my meticulously planned cable setup here in Graz to end in chaos. And after two depressing hours it finally works.
Today was a day full of discoveries starting in the early morning. The UPS guy delivered me my GeForce 8800 GTX back. EVGA couldn’t do anything. Actually that’s not true, they didn’t have to do anything because it was working fine after a hundred hours of testing. But let me describe a little about my silence the last week first.
Introducing my new category “Vista Issues” with a short question: 3.41 MB or -3.41 MB?
EDIT in August 2009: Yes, the bug is still there. What are the guys at Microsoft doing apart from planning to take over Yahoo! and then the world? I guess that’s a fulltime job.
Yes, that’s right: Microsoft finally decided to redesign Solitaire for Windows since it’s first appearance in 1990. While downloading 539.1 MB worth of Updates I decided to write this short review. Now with pictures and hence even more pleasing to the naked eye. This is an updated version of the article I posted yesterday evening, but still I decided to keep its timestamp — the good ol’ times….
It’s incredible but I hate Vista. I’ve never spent more time installing a simple operating system for a new computer system. It took me a good 6 hours until it worked – more or less. It only boots when I keep the Vista DVD inside the drive, but don’t boot from it. Strange. Otherwise I get an error message that Windows is misconfigured or even some kinda “INSERT SYSTEM DISK” error.
Installing Software for Vista itself is a completely new pain in the butt: The driver CDs and DVDs only support *any* other Windows. I am more or less out of any drive(r) because Vista 64 bit seems to be so awkward to code, that most of the hardware manufacturing companies make a big circle around it.
I was happy and proud of my two EVGA Geforce 8800 GTX cards I wanted to use in SLI mode. Here’s a little secret, nobody told me before about SLI: Only one screen is supported. So my nifty dual screen solution just lost its appeal. Did I mention, that the first time I switched into SLI mode Windows wouldn’t start anymore?
After installing and running the the 3DMark06 in SLI mode to really show off with my score I got some bad graphic errors. I ignored them for a while, but it only got worse. And in the middle of the canyon demo the system shuts down. “What the…?” I checked the temperature of the two 8800 GTX’s and they were nearly melting. And I didn’t dare to check the temperature of the Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum that is sandwiched *between* the graphic cards.
But now I gotta get some sleep. News will follow.
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