Go Back   oOple.com Forums > General > General Race Chat

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Old 12-03-2014
Mike2222 Mike2222 is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 641
Default Race timing with Windows8

Has anyone had experience of using the bbk timing program with Windows 8. I would like to know if you have had any issues with it and would you recommend using it. In particular, are the 'voices' any better than W7 ? They were ok with XP but got worse with Vista and W7.
Thanks
Mike
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old 12-03-2014
Dave Dodd's Avatar
Dave Dodd Dave Dodd is offline
*SuPeRsTaR mEmBeR*
 
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: At the track according to my Wife
Posts: 2,219
Default

I've read somewhere that you can put it into admin mode by right clicking on the icon. This will then allow you to run it on other systems. Hth
__________________

Website: http://www.wbmcc.co.uk/bingham-model-raceway.html

Schumacher Cat Xls, Rc10 Team(retired), Mardave Cobra, SST 98 Rally Car, TT02 Rally car, Wpl-c24 and Element Enduro builders kit #71 #deaddogracing

Autocare, unit 5 candleby Court, Cotgrave NG123RT.
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old 12-03-2014
cunawarit cunawarit is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Nottingham till I retire, then Caribbean or Palawan.
Posts: 706
Default

Has anyone tried turning off UAC? Has that worked?
Reply With Quote
  #4  
Old 12-03-2014
neallewis's Avatar
neallewis neallewis is offline
*SuPeRsTaR mEmBeR*
 
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: UK
Posts: 3,368
Default

Don't do it Mike, stick with Windows 7. Win 8/8.1 is just awful to use.

What do you mean by "voices"? The speech generated for the race announcer?
__________________
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Team Yokomo - YZ-2CAL3 | YZ-2DTM3 | YZ-4SF2 | YZ-2T | YZ-2DTM Worlds | YZ-2DTM x2 | YRX-12 x2
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
10electric | Batley Buggy Club | YORCC | RHR | MB Models
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Reply With Quote
  #5  
Old 12-03-2014
AmiSMB AmiSMB is offline
Mad Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Bracklesham Bay, West Sussex
Posts: 1,375
Default

I have managed to get it running under Windows 7 by right mouse clicking the icon and selecting run as administrator but had no luck at all under Windows 8.1 I think this is down the a compatability issue with the Broland Database Engine that is not compatible with W8. I think there maybe a new version of bbk around but not sure if that cures the Windows 8 issue.
__________________
Schumacher KC, KD, CAT XLS, CAT L1 | Team C TM2 V2, TM4, TC02 | JQ The Car | Mugen MBX6 | Losi 8T,8BE 1.5 | Durango DEX-410V4 | FTX Blaze | XRAY M18T | Kyosho STR,Surf Dude,Nexus 30 | Nimrif Makara | MFA Spear | She Devil | T-Rex 450SEV2,250SE | Ark X-400 | Protech Butterfly,Zoom 400 | Ikarus Piccolo | VW T4 | Smart 450 | KC-250 | BoltRC Kraken 5" | Emax Nighthawk 250 | Gravity 250 | S550 | Prusa i3 | TronXY X5A | Must stop collecting stuff!
Reply With Quote
  #6  
Old 12-03-2014
Oscar's Avatar
Oscar Oscar is offline
Admin
 
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: West Yorkshire, England
Posts: 1,528
Default

Some sound issues are I believe due to how Vista handles .WAV files. There is a Vista patch by BBK which cures the issue.
__________________
Reply With Quote
  #7  
Old 12-03-2014
jimbot jimbot is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2010
Posts: 220
Default

We have run on windows 8 for 8 + months but the laptop updated to 8.1 and we had a few issues.
Run serial usb lead not network cable this weekend.
simple run program as XP when you load it up.
Have had an issue with running RIDE score board and live timing together but everything else as been ok.
We have changed dongle to MiWi to run live timing will update if we can.
Jim
Reply With Quote
  #8  
Old 14-03-2014
Conrad's Avatar
Conrad Conrad is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Fife, Scotland
Posts: 473
Default

We run windows 8 and bbk and it does work but it isn't great. As others have said you have to run it as an administrator and using WinXP compatibility mode. It can fall over from time to time and some times it even loads minimised in the taskbar and won't maximise, you need to kill the process and load it again. Windows 7 is on the horizon for our club laptop.
__________________
[swithracing.co.uk] - Swith Racing
Reply With Quote
  #9  
Old 19-03-2014
Coastal's Avatar
Coastal Coastal is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 213
Default

RE Voices, it is a windows problem, they have only had Mcrosoft Mary since Windows Vista (?) so that is the only voice you can use.
If you want more voices to need to run windows NT or earlier
__________________
Built it
Raced it
Wrecked it
Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 05:09 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.
oOple.com