ABD ss6 on Windows 10

Has anyone tested?

  • The Commercial Release of SS6 preceded the release of Windows 10 so ABD SS6 is not certified for operation on Windows 10.

    I have installed and opened ABD SS6 on one machine with Windows 10 but not carried out anything I would dignify with the description 'testing'.

    I have heard a couple of reports of issues with the wrong Nvidia driver so watch out for that, but otherwise I would expect ABD to behave properly on Windows 10, however that is just an opinion.

    My other opinion on the topic is that I would not migrate any production machines to Windows 10 this early. There are plenty of discussions on that topic elsewhere.

    Bentley obviously recommend using only certified combinations of application and operating system.

    Regards

    Marc

    Answer Verified By: Steve Cocchi 

  • OK. Pretty much what guessed.

    WIll there be a ss6b, or ss7, for W10?
    Or will that be ABD-Connect?

    What discussion on Windows 10 are you referring to?

    regards / Thomas Voghera

  • Our W10 release plans will be announced in due course. I can't comment on that now.
    I have read various suggestions about W10's current state and Microsoft's intentions, hard to know how much is based on hard info or is just chatter.

    Regards

    Marc

  • Thanks Marc. Interesting you raise the matter of NVidia drivers (yet again!) I have discovered that the FX3800M in my laptop workstation causes problems with unwanted artefacts when using the updated Windows 10 driver. That driver works perfectly with every other application I run. The problem is that I can fix the problem by back-tracking the driver to a previous version which works fine but the next day the Windows 10 updater blows it away in favour of the latest driver. You cannot control that behaviour in Window 10. So I have experimented with setting the variable QV_D3DVERSION which allows me to run DirectX 9 instead of 11. All is well again in Microsation SS3 and Microstation Connect but not in ABD SS6. Do I need to do something different in ABD. I am so close to having this licked but maybe far away as well! It would be good if I can turn the Windows update service back on at the very least but that will only happen when my Bentley stuff is working.

    Anyone got any ideas??
  • Windows can be set to notify you when there's updates, then you say which ones you want/don't.