So WinRT just isn't very stable?

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migo

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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.

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SharpGreen

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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.

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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.

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SharpGreen

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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.

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ArialBlue

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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.

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FalseAgent

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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.

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