I am about a month in with Windows 8.1 as of this writing. Before buying this I tried to install my PSP X3 which was supposed to be compatible but I couldn't get it to run. So, I bought this. here's a few random bits on my experience, some advice, and hopefully some things that will help some of you beyond just this software.
My PC is powered by an Intel Core i7 980x processor @ 2.33 GHz with 24 GB of RAM and a very good video card and a monster 1500 watt power supply. I have a cable model. People often blame software, especially graphic software for problems that are more related to running modern software on an older and less adept PC. Imaging is a resource hog. Think of RAM as a workbench- the more room you have on the bench the easier it is to do big jobs. The less room you have, the more effort you have to put into making room and if you have a lot of stuff running in the background- all those icons by the clock are running in the background and more that doesn't show an icon. All that takes away from RAM. If you have a less than stellar processor, it has to keep all that stuff running and handle what you are doing with you imaging work, too.
Something I found to be true with Windows 7 about half the time and I'm finding true with Windows 8.1 about 95% of the time is you really have to use the "Run as Administrator" command for installing software and launching it, at least for the first time. You can't do that from the bar at the bottom that gives you the save and run buttons. You can't do that from the "View Downloads" either. You have to locate the actual folder your downloads go into. From there you have to find the program, right mouse click it, and select "Run as Administrator" from there. I have seen programs that wouldn't install at all unless that was done and others that didn't work right after they did install unless I found the file and did the Administrator thing. I can't explain it easily; I just know it works and Windows 8.1 seems to demand it more than Windows 7 did.
It's the same with launching a program- right click the icon and select "Run as Administrator" and 'yes' whatever the UAC (User Account Control) pops out.
To date, every program, except PSP X3, that has given me trouble with Windows 8.1 was resolved by the Administrator command.
Here's my experience with this- the downloader took seconds to download, install and run. The program downloading and installing took mere minutes. When I launch it, it is open and ready to work with in under 5 seconds. Files load into the work area in a blink and my image files are on a secondary drive 1.5 TB in size while PSP X7 resides on my primary drive, a 256 GB SSD (solid state drive).
I can't comment on the mechanics of the image manipulation because I obviously don't use everything but what I do use works very well. As to what is no different between this and previous versions, I can't say much there either because in truth I don't care. Sometimes the biggest improvements come from the smallest tweaks. If something is good to begin with, why does overhauling it make it better? Change for change's sake? Not in my world. It works for me as I want, it's fairly easy and straight forward to use and for what it does, I can't beat the price.
Oh yeah, I copied the down loaded program file to a CD with all the emails, access and activation codes, etc. so it's all there should I need to install it again. To quote my single digit years of my comic book hero, Sgt. Rock: "'Nuff said!"
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