Windows 10

[Jim]

Guylain,

 

Updated my desktop to Windows 10 Technical Preview edition and BYE 3.1.2, at least in a quick trial, appeared to work in F&F and on a short sequence imaging run.

 

Jim

[Seldom]

This thread's about 5 months old.  Has there been any follow up on Windows 10 compatibility?

[astroman133]

No.

[admin]

I had a few customers running it on W10 already and they report no issues at all.

[admin]

Thanks for reporting back on W10

[Jim]

If you would like anything specific testing just drop me a line.

 

I'm away for the next couple of days but when I get back I'll have a play and if I spot any anomalies I will let you know.

 

Jim

[admin]

It should be fine Jim, thanks anyway.  99.9% of BYE is purely .net and that usually is pretty much intact.

[hefy_jefy]

Working just fine here after the MS update from, Windows 8.1

[PoppaChris]

No problems here either. Moved from Win 7 PRO to Win 10.  Easy-peasy.

[Jim]

Did an imaging session last night and can report the only issue I had was a flat battery in the hand controller of my iEQ45 so it wouldn't remember location and settings when power cycled, not a W10 or BYE issue ;^)) 

 

Software used was:

 

W10

BYE 3.1.4

PHD 2.5.0

Alignmaster (current version I believe) 

Astrotortilla (again the current version I believe) 

 

Took about 6 hours of assorted lights, darks, etc. ranging from 6 to 10 minute exposures. All connections from laptop to mount and cameras via a single USB 3.0 socket on my laptop, a 10 m USB 3.0 active extension cable, mains powered USB 3.0 hub, to the  three USB 2  devices - 650D, QHY 5 II guide camera, serial/USB converter to mount. 

 

I have not used Stellarium Scope since updating to W10 but as I usually connect via ASCOM POTH to the scope for the various connections I don't suppose there will be any issues. One thing I do is that if I'm not using any software I disconnect from the scope in the various software as I have found this is more stable than leaving everything always connected, though if I occasionally forget the odd disconnection it doesn't normally cause any issues. 

 

Jim

[admin]

Thanks for the report Jim.

[hefy_jefy]

Ran Stellarium with the scope function via a serial port, no problem.  The only issue I have so far is that on my elderly laptop Dell Latitude 630 there are no OpenGL Windows 10 drivers for the Intel Graphics 965.  W10 installs a pretty good MS driver by default.  The latest version of Stellarium requires OpenGL drivers so I had to drop back one version of Stellarium.

Geoff 

[dts350z]

Yeah legacy graphics support seems to be the biggest problem so far with Windows 10. I had two out of three desktops, with Nvidia cards/on the MB, that had to be replaced with AMD cards (AMD because I could find fanless cards that came with windows 10 drivers for sure. Nothing against Nvidia cards).

 

Not really an option for Laptops