Me and windows 11

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sagevanni
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Me and windows 11

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Hi everyone,
I'm finding having windows 11 and APCD running at the same time for me is VERY frustrating...... :fear:
It's super slow and planting is a nightmare for me. I love making courses for Links 2003 but my frustration is winning at the present time.
I will slog on as best I can but my production will be limited.
I'm working on 2 Mike Strantz courses off and on.

I have my old computer with windows 10 but it is WAY to much hassle for me to set up and switch between them.

So here I am................ :wallbash:

Sage.............. :cheers1:
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Weeler
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Re: Me and windows 11

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Hey, Sage:

I thought you planned to stop using Win 11, and switch ALL your APCD stuff back to Win 10, which seemed to work much better for you overall. I guess I was mistaken about that. But, really, why are you still trying to use Win 11, when it gives you nothing but headaches ? Win 10 is still fully supported, is there a reason you NEED to change to Win 11 for APCD work ? Just curious. I'd sure hate to see you stop designing altogether because of this OS debacle. I enjoy working on your course planting projects, and hope it can continue.

Ron :notworthy:
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My win 10 5 year old laptop crapped out. I had to buy a new laptop. New laptops come with win 11. I don't have the luxury of buying computer willy nilly to get what MIGHT work from ebay or whatever. MY finances are very tight. I have what I have. I replaced the hard drive with a CHEAP SSD drive in my crapped out win 10 laptop. It works but I said I am not going to switch back and forth between comps. I don't have the space or equipment to do it right now. maybe at some point I will. I'm tired of all the hassle to get a program running.
I will do the best I can with what I have.

Sage...... :cheers1:
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braden1308
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Very frustrated also. My computer updated about week ago and now I can't do anything with my courses. Every time I try to open a course, the APCD freezes then crashes to the desktop. I have been trying to figure out what to do to get it to stay running but so far nothing has worked. I didn't even know t had updated until I logged on and the "lets finish setting up your computer" screen was up.

My older Win 10 laptop takes too long with the newer lidar mappings, I can only work for about 10 minutes and then hope it doesn't crash while saving.

Glenn
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Our friends at Windows have just announced that Win 10 support will cease to exist next October. :whistle:
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Hi Glenn, Well that puts a major damper on things............. :rant: I can still do everything put plant. So far...... :dunno:

Sage....... :cheers1:
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Sage do you run the APCD in admin mode.
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Hi Daniel,
It's the same no matter what I do. I've even tried dgVoodoo. Nothing makes a diff on my new machine.
Planted and nothing shows up................

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Sage..... :cheers1:
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Re: Me and windows 11

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Sage,
Just before I released the final of TPC sugarloaf I thought that I had the same problem. I tried four or five times to plant forest and after not seeing anything I undid the plant forest. In one of my saner times I realised I had turned off display 2D objects. How stupid can I be :whistle: :rant: :wallbash: ?

Unfortunately your and Glenn's problems are much more serious.

It is a crazy situation when we have different people using the "same'"(?) operating system getting different results, while using APCD and Links.

Luckily I have never had any problems with Windows 11, except for yesterday. I agreed to allow my laptop to update a download from Windows, not the main update to 24H2, and after that my laptop would not open after the login screen. Fortunately after a number of restarts an app seems to allow me to enter the computer and work normally. This morning it again took a number of restarts to get the laptop running. I have managed to save all my files to a new external SSD. I am now thinking about doing a new windows update. Anybody have any advice?

Sage and Glenn, I sincerely hope that you can correct your problem and return to producing all those stunning courses.

Good luck, :cheers1: :cheers1:

Ian
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Re: Me and windows 11

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Desperate times call for desperate measures! EBAY.com, "Windows 7 refurbished pc". I specified "desktop" and found several. You can communicate with the seller first, and prices were around $100.

Pete
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