RowPro and Windows 8

[tealow]

Hi,

does anyone know whether RowPro is running on Windows 8? Currently i am running Windows 7 and hesitate to upgrade to Windows 8 because of my RowPro installation.

Greetings,
Thilo

[Carl Watts]

Try running this and check the results.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/wind ... -windows-8

Staying with Windows XP Pro here for a while to come, or at least until RowPro no longer works on it anyway.

[Carl Watts]

The current version of RowPro V3 DOES NOT work with Windows 8.

The new version of RowPro WILL NOT work on Windows XP either so it's upgrade OS time.

The good news is that many older PC's (2006-2008 onwards) will run Windows 8 as you probably have a decent graphics card in it already.

Will try and continue to run the old Pentium single core 3.2GHz processor with HT and 1Gb of RAM here, however with only the OS and RowPro on it and no other files it should be fine.

[Bob S.]

The new version of RowPro WILL NOT work on Windows XP either so it's upgrade OS time.

Isn't the new version still just vaporware? I certainly haven't seen any solid announcements. It has been in the wings for an awfully long time and the reputed Mac version even longer.

Bob S.

[Carl Watts]

The new version of RowPro WILL NOT work on Windows XP either so it's upgrade OS time.

Isn't the new version still just vaporware? I certainly haven't seen any solid announcements. It has been in the wings for an awfully long time and the reputed Mac version even longer.

Bob S.

No is the short answer.

[tealow]

For your information: Upgraded to Windows 8 last week. RowPro V3 ist still working fine!

[Carl Watts]

For your information: Upgraded to Windows 8 last week. RowPro V3 ist still working fine!

Yes but it's not 100% functional.

Purchased a copy of Windows 8 in the weekend and have to make a number of changes to my PC as it doesn't even have a DVD Drive at present. Has a 30Gb harddrive partition so will run a dual boot option with Windows XP while I try and get a handle on Windows 8. Most reports suggest this is not that much fun of a PC as it is designed for a tablet but if your only interested in running one application it shouldn't be to hard to adapt.

Keep an eye on the Digital Rowing Website.

[Dugjibe]

Hi,
on my computer is works okay with windows 8. It however sometimes crashes, but I do not know if that is windows 8 realted.

[Carl Watts]

Running RowPro V3.3 under Windows 8 and I have to say I like the whole package.

Windows 8 boots so fast on an older PC it's not funny and there are other little things like multiple time zone clocks and you can configure the power button as a reset.

V3.3 is supposed to have stopped all the crashes during rowing online with several others and includes a number of other small fixes.

[pamcnm]

Does anyone know if RowPro will run on a tablet running windows 8?

[Citroen]

Does anyone know if RowPro will run on a tablet running windows 8?

As long as the tablet has a USB-A socket so you can hook-up the PM3/PM4 there should be no reason why not.
A tablet is just a PC with a virtual keyboard touch pad rather than a physical keyboard.

[enki]

Running RowPro V3.3 under Windows 8 and I have to say I like the whole package.

Where is 3.3? All I see is 3.016:
http://www.digitalrowing.com/Download/index.htm

[enki]

Running RowPro V3.3 under Windows 8 and I have to say I like the whole package.

Where is 3.3? All I see is 3.016:
http://www.digitalrowing.com/Download/index.htm

Hoping they can make the right api call to keep the computer from going to sleep in the middle of a row:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/delay/archive/2 ... sleep.aspx

[Carl Watts]

You have to change the Windows 8 settings to stop the PC from dropping you on the default 20 minute setting that turns off your monitor. Xp was the same from memory.

The screensaver is not a problem, rowing appears to stop this coming up as the PC is seeing activity via the USB. With a laptop you would just have to alter the power setting to stop it going to sleep.

V3.3 has not been released as yet, only to those people testing it. It is rock solid and has not dropped me during an online row yet.

Not sure what the final version will be released as, probably V4

[enki]

You have to change the Windows 8 settings to stop the PC from dropping you on the default 20 minute setting that turns off your monitor. Xp was the same from memory.

The screensaver is not a problem, rowing appears to stop this coming up as the PC is seeing activity via the USB. With a laptop you would just have to alter the power setting to stop it going to sleep.

I know thats how the current version of rowpro is on Windows 7 and earlier. My point is that the software could make the correct API call so the computer won't go to sleep, shutdown the monitor, or enable the screen saver. There really is no reason for a user to have to reconfigure the computer as the app should just tell the computer when it is doing something and shouldn't sleep like the way many media player apps work. (see the link I posted it has all the source code needed to do this)