Simple question here. I am hoping one of the developers (or someone on these forums) is participating in the Windows 10 preview. If so does RW work fine in W10? I plan on upgrading to windows 10 pro as I will get it for free based on my current OS and would like to make sure all my software will work in it, especially RW!
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Will Realm Works run ok in Windows 10?
- Thread starter Madmaxneo
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I have seen no problems on the latest version of the developer preview either. I'm using a new HP Spectre 360. (Amazing machine for the price by the way). V1.0162 which I think is very close to the final version, seems to run perfectly. I can't see any reason to not take advantage of the free upgrade.
So, after upgrading my Surface Pro 3 to Windows 10, I could no longer launch Realm Works, it would crash complaining about no access to the backups (saved under my /user directory).
I was able to launch it if I "Run as administrator". Is this normal behavior now for RW and Win10?
Note: I uninstalled and reinstalled it but it had no affect.
I was able to launch it if I "Run as administrator". Is this normal behavior now for RW and Win10?
Note: I uninstalled and reinstalled it but it had no affect.
No it's not. My guess is there's a permissions problem. You say it's complaining about the Backups folder in your My Documents folder?
If you haven't already, write up a bug report.
Then, with Realm Works closed, open Explorer, navigate to your Documents folder, and rename the "Realm Works" folder to something else. Realm Works should recreate it on launch.
If you haven't already, write up a bug report.
Then, with Realm Works closed, open Explorer, navigate to your Documents folder, and rename the "Realm Works" folder to something else. Realm Works should recreate it on launch.
Ya, looks like it. I deleted the folder, uninstalled everything, etc. Figured it maybe would correct it during install. No luck.
Also noticed a few other issues now, it crashes if I attach a 22mb PDF. But on my Win 8 machine I was able to attach it just fine. Could be related.
I did send all the crash reports in via the Realm Works mechanism so hopefully they get more details in those reports.
Also noticed a few other issues now, it crashes if I attach a 22mb PDF. But on my Win 8 machine I was able to attach it just fine. Could be related.
I did send all the crash reports in via the Realm Works mechanism so hopefully they get more details in those reports.
She'd referring to Colen McAlister, lead developer for the Hero lab side of things.
Update:
I've been using RW on my laptop since the preview started. Had zero issues.
It's been a few weeks, and I'm putting in all the SR Missions for Season 5 that I own. I've had ZERO issues.
In fact, it seems to run slightly better under Windows 10 than 8.1/8/7.
This is of course not verifiable, but my main PC has RW installed on a SSD Raid 0 Array (2 SSD's, striped for speed). My laptop is running a laptop HDD. Can't remember the speed, but not awesome-tastic (it's not even a hybrid drive, just a plain old HDD).
I swear to Nuffle, that the Laptop was opening, loading, and performing better under Windows 10 than the PC under 8.1 90% of the time.
OH, and the PC is WAY better than the laptop in all respects.
PC = 4770k i7 @4.0 GHz threaded (stable OC'd at 3.0), 16 Gig RAM, Geforce 700ti
Laptop = 4720HQ i7 @2.6GHz, 8 Gig RAM, Geforce 960m
I upgraded the PC to 10 and it destroys RW. Loads huge realms in about a second or so, duplicating topics is about .25 seconds, etc...
All in all, if you're a big RW user, in there all the time, and you don't upgrade to Windows 10, you're shooting yourself in the foot.
I've been using RW on my laptop since the preview started. Had zero issues.
It's been a few weeks, and I'm putting in all the SR Missions for Season 5 that I own. I've had ZERO issues.
In fact, it seems to run slightly better under Windows 10 than 8.1/8/7.
This is of course not verifiable, but my main PC has RW installed on a SSD Raid 0 Array (2 SSD's, striped for speed). My laptop is running a laptop HDD. Can't remember the speed, but not awesome-tastic (it's not even a hybrid drive, just a plain old HDD).
I swear to Nuffle, that the Laptop was opening, loading, and performing better under Windows 10 than the PC under 8.1 90% of the time.
OH, and the PC is WAY better than the laptop in all respects.
PC = 4770k i7 @4.0 GHz threaded (stable OC'd at 3.0), 16 Gig RAM, Geforce 700ti
Laptop = 4720HQ i7 @2.6GHz, 8 Gig RAM, Geforce 960m
I upgraded the PC to 10 and it destroys RW. Loads huge realms in about a second or so, duplicating topics is about .25 seconds, etc...
All in all, if you're a big RW user, in there all the time, and you don't upgrade to Windows 10, you're shooting yourself in the foot.
If anyone can't open RW because of the "backups" issue, it's a permissions thing.
Navigate to where you can see the folder which contains the backup files, right-click, properties, security, edit, and grant full permissions to users as well as system and administrators.
That should sort you.
Navigate to where you can see the folder which contains the backup files, right-click, properties, security, edit, and grant full permissions to users as well as system and administrators.
That should sort you.
@Pollution
Most people should notice an improvement in general performance with windows 10 in almost every aspect of heir day to day lives.
Windows 10 is much lighter than any previous windows, it even has frightening low specs for a modern OS.
I am surprised you strip your SSDs, there is not the gain there you should get, this is where the new Intel 170 chipset is miles ahead of Z97. You can and will flood the Sata bus long before your SSDs can hit their max performance. MSIs new M7 gaming mobo is a star here,, with two M.2 slots allowing for 32GBs of bandwidth, although two top performance M.2 socket SSDs will flood that stripped as well.
Most people should notice an improvement in general performance with windows 10 in almost every aspect of heir day to day lives.
Windows 10 is much lighter than any previous windows, it even has frightening low specs for a modern OS.
I am surprised you strip your SSDs, there is not the gain there you should get, this is where the new Intel 170 chipset is miles ahead of Z97. You can and will flood the Sata bus long before your SSDs can hit their max performance. MSIs new M7 gaming mobo is a star here,, with two M.2 slots allowing for 32GBs of bandwidth, although two top performance M.2 socket SSDs will flood that stripped as well.
+1, sorta.
I notice my "Documents" folder has Administrators added (which my ID is in) but not my actual login user id. Adding that fixes the issue...however
Upon reboot it seems to remove said user. Frustrating. So reboot after changing permissions and make sure they stick! Still looking for a permanent solution.
Viking2054
Well-known member
Looks to me like Windows 10 now offers 2 kinds of login. There is the local login that you can switch to after an upgrade. But it seems to default to a Microsoft Cloud login that ties your previous version of windows local login permissions to the new login. I don't know if that is a problem or not when it comes to some of the permission issues people are having.
Lexin
Well-known member
Would that that were true. I spent 12 hours yesterday with Microsoft support after Windows 10 made an absolute hash of my desktop computer and ruined my primary account - to which RW is tied on that machine.
It's not fixed even now, and I suspect I'm going to have to pay someone to fix it or install everything from the bottom up which is going to take days of time I just don't have.
Realm Works works well on Windows 10. Windows 10 however, can be a poisoned chalice. Don't do it unless you're prepared for days of hassle. Not everyone has this problem but you need to be aware that it's possible.