I know the Win10 Anniversary Update has been shipped
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@anonymous234 said in I know the Win10 Anniversary Update has been shipped:
@powerlord said in I know the Win10 Anniversary Update has been shipped:
On a side note, I've heard that the Anniversary Update borked XInput, at least if you're using an Xbox One (or Xbox 360?) gamepad.
I always wondered, how the fuck does software manage to fail at handling game controllers? I mean it's just reading physical buttons and a few analog values, and mapping them to whatever "logical buttons" you want. Outside the mapping part, there is no complexity whatsoever!
Can you imagine if you installed a game but it wasn't compatible with your current keyboard?
OK, everything I'm about to say is hearsay that I saw in comments on articles about this issue.
Apparently Xbox 360 and Xbox One controllers have drivers that load both DirectInput and XInput interfaces. As in, the controller appears to the system as two controllers.
In the past, once you've acquired one of the interfaces, the other prevents you from acquiring it.
Which is no longer true in Windows 10 as of the Anniversary update.
The problem appears to be that some games automatically iterate through the devices list and attempt to acquire all controllers they find for both XInput and DirectInput (since in the past, not all controller drivers supported XInput).
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@powerlord said in I know the Win10 Anniversary Update has been shipped:
The problem appears to be that some games automatically iterate through the devices list and attempt to acquire all controllers they find for both XInput and DirectInput (since in the past, not all controller drivers supported XInput).
Which actually seems like the right thing to do.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in I know the Win10 Anniversary Update has been shipped:
My Windows 8.0 machine never even got Windows 10. Not sure why. Then again, Updates rarely work on it (apparently):
Coincidentally, my Win 8 machine also had update problems, which continued after I put 8.1 on it. I'm hoping that this has resolved itself after I upgraded it to 10, but I haven't checked (we don't use it much).
@accalia said in I know the Win10 Anniversary Update has been shipped:
i still have a machine that runs the best version ever: 3.1
Not possible, because the best program ever needs VB5, and that apparently required 32-bit Windows. Though Wikipedia suggests that VB5 programs can be readily converted to VB4, so if you feel like a project...
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in I know the Win10 Anniversary Update has been shipped:
@accalia said in I know the Win10 Anniversary Update has been shipped:
i still have a machine that runs the best version ever: 3.1
Not possible, because the best program ever needs VB5, and that apparently required 32-bit Windows.
Commander Keen required VB5?
news to me.
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@accalia said in I know the Win10 Anniversary Update has been shipped:
Commander Keen required VB5?
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Urgent noodle jamming request: Commander Keen as an easter egg in SSDS.Someone needs to make this happen!
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in I know the Win10 Anniversary Update has been shipped:
Someone needs to make this happen!
as the person who made the request you are hereby deputized to implement it.
May the goddess show mercy on your brave soul.
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@accalia Does it count as an easter egg if it's the first thing the software does when you run it?
I suppose one could shove a call to Keen at any random goto target. Nobody knows how to get from one point of the program to another anyway, so it'd be a case of "there's probably some magical sequence of prompt entries that will get to it, but don't ask me what they are because I have no idea".
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@Lorne-Kates said in I know the Win10 Anniversary Update has been shipped:
Win10 Anniversary Update
Idiot.
I like the Windows 10 Anniversary Update because it let me install the Ubuntu version of git-svn as a replacement for the version provided by GitHub Desktop that was broken by the Windows Defender update that came with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update.
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@ben_lubar Speaking of which, I only had to reboot once to get the ubuntu thing working, not the five or whatever you apparently had to do. You seem to have a lot of weird problems.
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@Magus said in I know the Win10 Anniversary Update has been shipped:
I only had to reboot once to get the ubuntu thing working
Was that including the reboots needed to install the anniversary update? I included those because the Ubuntu thing was the only feature listed that I would ever use.
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@ben_lubar No idea. I got home and that was installed already.