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On 2/14/2016 9:06 AM, Rin Stowleigh wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Feb 2016 20:29:27 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
> <dtr...@sonic.net> wrote:
>
>> On 2/13/2016 3:03 PM, Rin Stowleigh wrote:
>>> On Sat, 13 Feb 2016 17:05:04 -0500, DMP <D...@mungemaid.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I tried all the compatibility settings in properties with scaling both
>>>> on and off. Still no start. I don't have a Creative Labs sound card, but
>>>> just use sound from the motherboard with Real-tek drivers.
>>>
>>> Just as an FYI, I mentioned Creative because they took over the OpenAL
>>> project from another developer as an open standards project.  It's a
>>> cross platform driver, and you don't have to use a Creative brand card
>>> to use OpenAL.
>>>
>>> Also when I said Creative drivers are notorious for this, I wasn't
>>> necessarily picking on them as a company.  The problem is that because
>>> Windows is designed to work with a gazillion different audio interface
>>> hardware possibilities, there are a lot of things that can go wrong
>>> with regards to gaming.  If Microsoft went the way of Apple, and made
>>> their software runnable only on their own hardware, this sort of audio
>>> driver snafu would go largely away because it removes driver
>>> configuration differences as a potential source of issue.
>>>
>> This is what Microsoft is doing with WX.  I don't have a URL for the
>> press release but they have announced that WX will not be fully
>> supported unless it is being running on certain hardware.
>>
>> (Of course they waited until WX had been forcefully installed on
>> millions of "non-compatible" machines....)
>
> Umm..  There is a massive difference between saying "ok, here are the
> tens of thousands or so of compatible devices" and saying "our OS will
> only run on hardware we sell you".
>
Their press release says the list is not exhaustive and more may be 
added to it.  At the moment MS' list of compatible devices is:
Intel Skylake chips.
End of list.

MS has a history of deliberately writing code that is not 100% 
compatible with the standards agreed upon by everyone else so that their 
in-house products run better on Windows than anything anyone else can 
make.  This is just an extension of that policy.

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