Windows 8 gremlins

[nbulp]

Hmm. One of the patches released today: Multimedia or communication activities may cause a computer that is running Windows 8 Release Preview or Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate to stop responding

Related to our problem?

 

[borna761]

Hmm. One of the patches released today: Multimedia or communication activities may cause a computer that is running Windows 8 Release Preview or Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate to stop responding

Related to our problem?

Yes, that seems to be the one that is supposed to fix it. I disabled the dynamic tick, installed the hotfix, had it running well overnight, but got a freeze now in the morning. Not sure how it will continue throughout the day.

 

[nbulp]

Just another report: no hangs! Haven't used W7 in weeks!

The only issues I have, right now, have to do with coming out of hibernation and with setting display brightness while QuickSet is running

 

[borna761]

Just another report: no hangs! Haven't used W7 in weeks!

The only issues I have, right now, have to do with coming out of hibernation and with setting display brightness while QuickSet is running

did you reenable the dynamic tick or is it still disabled?

 

[nbulp]

Just another report: no hangs! Haven't used W7 in weeks!

The only issues I have, right now, have to do with coming out of hibernation and with setting display brightness while QuickSet is running

did you reenable the dynamic tick or is it still disabled?

I didn't enable it again! I don't dare to! Hmm.

 

[borna761]

Just another report: no hangs! Haven't used W7 in weeks!

The only issues I have, right now, have to do with coming out of hibernation and with setting display brightness while QuickSet is running

did you reenable the dynamic tick or is it still disabled?

I didn't enable it again! I don't dare to! Hmm.

I tried enabling it again sometime last week, and had freezes almost immediately again... been disabled since and it's working fine. I was hoping someone would have better luck than me!

 

[BkS]

Sorry to be a pain in the backside guys, but I've been experiencing some Windows 8 gremlins myself.

I'm on the Consumer Preview, but I notice that anytime my CPU goes under heavy load, Windows 8 overheats and then my safety limit kicks in and shuts off the laptop. Not a great look, especially when gaming.

Never had overheating problems with Vista or 7, only seems to be with 8.

I also notice everything is MUCH slower.

I use Ubuntu and Peppermint (Linux distros) as my daily's, so I'm not too worried about Windows 8. I just can't do any work without it overheating.

I've ran chkdsk /r through CMD, everything seems fine, so there is differently a kernel issue somewhere.

 

[Quppa]

The freezing issue still seems to occur in the RTM build for my Dell Studio XPS 13/1340, but the 'disabledynamictick' tweak fixes it.

 

[DemonicHawk]

The freezing issue still seems to occur in the RTM build for my Dell Studio XPS 13/1340, but the 'disabledynamictick' tweak fixes it.

Same on my 1340, I thought they would've included the fix in RTM. Though regardless, I'm happy to be able to run windows 8.