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Mar 12
Well, here I am, almost one week into Windows 8 testing, and I couldn't be happier! I'm getting used to the Metro Start Menu quickly, and was so impressed by the performance boost on my laptop that I blew away Windows 7 on my main desktop and stuck the CP on there also. NVIDIA's drivers are pretty much completely up to the task of running on Win 8, and I've been testing with SLI and 3D Vision, and everything is very good. Although I don't have any hard data yet, I'd say that running around in Star Wars: TOR is smoother at 120Hz than it was in 7. Applications seem to snap up quicker, and everything just feels snappy. Even more so, all of the programs I use on a daily basis just worked, mostly. I had to use the IT basic driver for my Officejet printer, but that works like a champ now. I also had to coax Adobe Acrobat into installing but hitting the MSI directly as opposed to the "setup.exe" that we all are used to hunting out. However, I can say with confidence that this is a very solid build.
There was one issue that I couldn't get over though: hard locks. I could easily tell that the culprit was something in the hard drive subsystem, as I would be listening to music and it would just start repeating like a broken record. The mouse would still move, and some things would even work for a second, but within a minute the system would totally lock and I'd have to hit the reset button. I first thought that the Intel drivers I installed for my RAID system were the culprit, but that turned out to not be the case after reverting back to the shipping ones. I finally went to Google and found this little tidbit of joy:
When I opened up the control panel, I saw this:
Windows obviously knows that my C: drive is an SSD, but it was still trying to defrag it. That's not good. I've followed Ken's advice there and turned off defragmentation completely, and we'll see how that goes. Hopefully that's what has been causing my hard drive system lock ups, and it'll be all good from here on out.
More to come, so stay tuned!
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