Driver Station Windows 8 Compatibility?

[billbo911]

We have both LabView and the Drivers Station software running on a Windows 8 laptop. Works fine,....... if you like Windows 8 that is.

[dcarr]

No issues here...our drive PC is a Win8 machine

[cgmv123]

Windows 8 is officially unsupported. As said above, odds are they'll work, but they have not been tested officially, nor will you get significant help from FIRST or NI.

[dcarr]

Originally Posted by cgmv123

Windows 8 is officially unsupported. As said above, odds are they'll work, but they have not been tested officially, nor will you get significant help from FIRST or NI.

Technically anything other than a Classmate running an official FRC image is "unofficial."

Use at your own risk I suppose.

[MrHollywood360]

Windows 8 is terrible and I don't see why you would want to use it in the first place.

[dcarr]

Originally Posted by MrHollywood360

Windows 8 is terrible and I don't see why you would want to use it in the first place.

Please keep discussion on-topic. There are plenty of other places on the Internet to discuss your opinions on Windows 8; Chief Delphi is not one of them.

[MrTechCenter]

Windows 8 works fine for the Driver Station, especially if you have a touchscreen laptop like we do. Labview works fine with Win8 but I got really frustrated with it at times, I recommend using a mouse for Labview.

Also, the process of opening up the Driver Station software and Dashboard is much more long and tedious on Win8, but it's doable as long as you're on-time for your match.

[F22Rapture]

LabVIEW executables seem to be a bit slower on 8 than on 7, but it still works fine.

My only issue is that the driver station / crio imager / anything else LabVIEW seems to not close properly and I have to break out the task manager to kill them. Minor inconvinience though.

[Rodney]

I honestly have not had any problems with Labview, Windriver(C++), Driver Station or any of the other FIRST software yet.

If it helps here are my processor and ram specs:

Windows 8 Pro x64
Intel Core 2 Duo 3.33GHz (x64)
4GB RAM