So WinRT just isn't very stable?

[migo]

I was originally thinking that my crashes were due to the system overheating, but I just had IE freeze on me a few minutes after resuming from sleep, so the system was still very cool.

I have only had crashes in metro apps. Solitaire, Internet Explorer, App Store - haven't spent much time in anything else Metro. No crashes ever in Legacy mode, including playing fairly process intensive games. I'm assuming all the Metro apps are done in WinRT, and it seems they aren't appropriately sandboxed.

[SharpGreen]

I was originally thinking that my crashes were due to the system overheating, but I just had IE freeze on me a few minutes after resuming from sleep, so the system was still very cool.

I have only had crashes in metro apps. Solitaire, Internet Explorer, App Store - haven't spent much time in anything else Metro. No crashes ever in Legacy mode, including playing fairly process intensive games. I'm assuming all the Metro apps are done in WinRT, and it seems they aren't appropriately sandboxed.

What does crashing have to do with the sandbox? Also yea I've had more crashes in Metro apps on the CP then in any other apps.

[migo]

Apps should be sandboxed so when they crash they don't take down the whole system. I can't even Ctrl+Alt+Del

[ArialBlue]

Playing Solitare had me hard reboot three times in 20 minutes.

[Grinch]

Haven't had an issue personally, though I did a clean install. Did any of you do upgrade installations?

[migo]

Clean install for me.

[PGHammer]

Haven't had an issue personally, though I did a clean install. Did any of you do upgrade installations?

I've had no real issues either with this clean install.

In fact, I played Solitaire earlier in MetroSnap (left) mode.

What I would like to see are more card games adopt WinRT and MetroSnap.

An observation for the detractors and two-hour-evaluators of the CP that ran back to the comfort of Windows 7 - because of the resolution limits of non-desktops, if anything, MetroSnap is MORE suited to desktops than any other hardware capable of running WCP, including, if not especially, Ultrabooks or netbooks. While a MetroSnapped app is legible on a smaller screen, nothing beats a taller - 1680x1050 or better - resolution for side-by-side.

[migo]

Too bad I only have 1280x800.

[Stoffel]

The Metro apps die on me too once and a while, but they never make me reboot my system.

Then again we were warned that the apps were in a very early stage.

[SharpGreen]

Apps should be sandboxed so when they crash they don't take down the whole system. I can't even Ctrl+Alt+Del

Ohh...I misread that. I didn't know the crashing apps were bringing down everything. In that case, that has not happened to me before and is certainly weird.

[ArialBlue]

I think most of my crashes happen in METRO (my system lives on Windows drivers, nforce 15.56 drivers, and W8 NV drivers (297.73 or something?)

Absolute freeze too. Sound will keep on looping forever, etc.

[Emon]

Every time I wanted to play "Cut the rope" it froze the whole system.

[migo]

I think most of my crashes happen in METRO (my system lives on Windows drivers, nforce 15.56 drivers, and W8 NV drivers (297.73 or something?)

Absolute freeze too. Sound will keep on looping forever, etc.

Interesting, I'm using GeForce and nForce as well.

[Kratzie]

Only one lockup for me, the Maps app shat it self when I entered a location. so much for Ctrl Alt Del.

[Wyn6]

I've had a few issues but not many. Just for reference my GPU is a Radeon 4870. Might be an Nvidia thing.

[techguy77]

I am .NET developer for the past 5 years and i can tell you that WinRT is pile of crap.

[jakem1]

I am .NET developer for the past 5 years and i can tell you that WinRT is pile of crap.

How long have you been a troll for?

[gunny2k6]

if you go back a few years mr .net developer ...... everyone and there dog said .net was a pile of crap ....

[XerXis]

I am .NET developer for the past 5 years and i can tell you that WinRT is pile of crap.

you're actually funny

[Guest]

Well on a plus note, I haven't had any BSODs, windows tends to just totally freeze without stating any reason why now :)

[Fraud OS 11]

For me the most unstable app is the Photos app. Regularly crashes once in a while at launch.

[migo]

Can people with/without freezing and crashing report whether they're on nVidia, Intel or AMD setups?

[lalalawawawa]

I am .NET developer for the past 5 years and i can tell you that WinRT is pile of crap.

Oh, they why did you post that you're using C and C++ to develop stuff, if you're a .NET developer?

[Chester0]

Never got a crash so far (Intel GPU)

[FalseAgent]

you're actually funny

LOL!

anyway, I think WinRT apps seem to run faster than Win32 apps without bringing the rest of the system down. I haven't had any major system crashes or freezes, and for the Metro apps that do crash (understandable, app previews are not representative of the WinRT platform anyway), they just blank out, and the start screen reappears. Wonderful. Finally no more "windows is looking for a solution to the problem" bullcrap.