windows 8 problems [Archive]

Nocsucow

07-24-2014, 06:49 AM

crashing coming into the game..... crashing every other zone ... crashing randomly standing in EC ... crashing crashing crashing .... anyone else have this problem....? i didnt have this problem when i was useing my 8 year old PC with windows xp

Skittlez

07-24-2014, 07:16 AM

Grossss... Win 7 or bust..

Nocsucow

07-24-2014, 07:18 AM

i wish i had windows 7..... the new comp came with windows 8

Rhambuk

07-24-2014, 07:36 AM

Crash, Crash, Crash, Crash....

yeah that sounds like Win8, go back to the 8year old.

Brynnag

07-24-2014, 07:38 AM

Crash, Crash, Crash, Crash....

yeah that sounds like Win8, go back to the 8year old.

While im not a fan of Win 8, my laptops came with it and have never had any issues with crashing. Although if they would let me i'd format and install win 7 anyway lol.

murrpau

07-24-2014, 07:44 AM

Yeah, my new computer came with win8 installed. I had slipped the old hard drove in already, so I swapped their slots and remapped them and ignore the new hard drive now. The end.

No wait it would be the end, but windows 8 is such a cock-up that it will always boot my windows 8 drive unless I'm spamming f8 when it reboots to tell it which drive(by serial number, not c: or d:) to load. What the classic fuck.

Rhambuk

07-24-2014, 07:44 AM

yeah im just not a fan of win8, we got one of those all in one desktop during winter last year and I hate it.

It has never had any crashing issues, granted its a family pc and used for browsing mostly and not gaming. 8 still sucks, real real bad.

Nocsucow

07-24-2014, 07:48 AM

wish i had a copy of windows 7

myriverse

07-24-2014, 07:57 AM

Don't care for Win8 either, but no crashes whatsoever. Disconnections, sure, but no crashes.

Brynnag

07-24-2014, 08:09 AM

I can deal with 8.1 a bit better, but only because i have it set to load up the desktop view by default. Searching for files is still a pita tho.

Rhambuk

07-24-2014, 08:19 AM

I can deal with 8.1 a bit better, but only because i have it set to load up the desktop view by default. Searching for files is still a pita tho.

so unreal trying to find directories and files and anything you actually need besides the start shortcut. I stared at the tile screen for like 10 minutes at first trying to figure out where anything was

Thulack

07-24-2014, 08:40 AM

if you right click the start button it gives you option for the file explorer.Makes finding files just as easy at win7....but yeah i had 2 issues with win8 that werent EQ related that made me switch back to 7.

Whirled

07-24-2014, 08:46 AM

Brynnag

07-24-2014, 08:56 AM

Is there no more Bios in Windows 8? I have not had the chance to use any Windows 8 computers is the reason I ask. F2 used to bring you into BIOS where you could swap boot order for drives & other crap

Of course there is. But on alot of machines the option to format win8 doesn't exist and I don't want to just lose that space on my hdd

Whirled

07-24-2014, 09:02 AM

o my bad I misread

Cookiefist

07-24-2014, 10:24 AM

Free start menu http://www.classicshell.net/
Can change the start button graphic and such. I install it for all my windows 8 clients that can't browse around with the new style start wall.

Win8 is hard to downgrade at times. Sometimes there is a secure boot enabled to prevent legacy boot processes.

Try and find your COA for windows 8 now too! Its in-bedded into the bios... ;(