windows 7 & 10 OS on both PC's

[Emre]

Hello all,

 

I was wondering if my display PC has Windows 7 and if I upgrade my control PC to Windows 10 that cause any issue ?

On the second hand do you have any documentation how the drive should be splitted ? Does the Watchout software has to be installed to the same Drive with the Windows or another Drive and how many GB empty space is required?

[Walter]

Hi Emre, 

v6 or v7? 

For v6 (and v7 btw) it shouldn't matter of display and production have a different OS running. Note on v7 = only works on win10 and win11.

Ideally, specifically for the display server, have Watchout installed on a secondary drive. For both versions by default it will hold all assets on that particular drive.
The amount of empty space all depends on your show. 😉 

 

[jfk]

While it should not matter in theory, that has not proven true in practice. WATCHOUT Display (watchpoint) servers running Windows 7 do not play well with WATCHOUT Production (watchmaker) servers running Windows 10+. (Of course this applies to WATCHOUT 6 and earlier, as WATCHOUT 7 is Windows 10+ only). There is some unexpected incompatibility between the network adaptor driver settings between Windows 7 and Windows 10 that seems to only impact WATCHOUT. Online or Update takes much longer than it should. The exceptionally slow network transfer does not occur when all stations are Windows 7. Most of the communications regarding this issue occurred many years ago. This has been encountered and reported by numerous customers back then. There are old reports in this forum. WATCHPAX, WATCHPAX 2, and WATCHPAX 4 users have all reported this issue.

[Walter]

16 hours ago, jfk said:

While it should not matter in theory, that has not proven true in practice. WATCHOUT Display (watchpoint) servers running Windows 7 do not play well with WATCHOUT Production (watchmaker) servers running Windows 10+. (Of course this applies to WATCHOUT 6 and earlier, as WATCHOUT 7 is Windows 10+ only). There is some unexpected incompatibility between the network adaptor driver settings between Windows 7 and Windows 10 that seems to only impact WATCHOUT. Online or Update takes much longer than it should. The exceptionally slow network transfer does not occur when all stations are Windows 7. Most of the communications regarding this issue occurred many years ago. This has been encountered and reported by numerous customers back then. There are old reports in this forum. WATCHPAX, WATCHPAX 2, and WATCHPAX 4 users have all reported this issue.

Interesting read. Thanks for that. (As always)

 Though I personally never have experienced similar issues whilst “mixing” win7 display servers with win10 producers…