Hello James,
Thanks for this. I'm really happy that VCD works on your PC, but unfortunately that doesn't really help with my situation (and aparently at least another user
). I have already emailed EB and am curious so see if they'll reply and what it will be.
I have uninstalled DT and their STPD layer from my test laptop (a Sony Z2, on which VCD used to work perfectly on Win7x64).
I have installed the latest VCD. Double clicked on a BD ISO (from a NAS share on my Qnap TS859). Win8 asks me what I want to do with it. I select mount ISO with VCD. It immediately hangs windows and reboots.
After reboot, MS asked me to send a report, which I did. I tried to change the options to enable buffered i/o. I couldn't even access the options or launch the software.
I had to uninstall it, re-install it. Enabled buffered I/O. Tried mounting a BD ISO again. It froze exactly the same and rebooted.
That's the only software I've tested under win 8 which is that extremely incompatible. So it should definitely be taken OUT of MS list of compatible apps asap, it's obviously a mistake
.
I'm going to try VCD in my Win8 VM under parallels to see if it performs as poorly or if it works better.
I'm happy to give more details (for example email you the minidump files from the MS report if you think it could help) if you are ready to consider the possibility that you might just be lucky with your setup
.
I have no idea what the proportion is and who is the exception here, but it might be beneficial to resolve this before Win8 is widely released
.