What about restricting support to specific OS? (2 Viewers)

[winterescape]

Instead of calling some configurations supported, what about making one or more recommended setups, both for hardware and software?

That is a great idea, swim upstream if you chose or select recommended OS and hardware and go with flow...
Just so long as the hardware and OS I am using are selected as the recommended platform

 

[cecolon]

There could be several recommendations as well, and maybe different hardware and software combinations that are known to go well together. For instance, when I was building my HTPC, it would be great to have some recommended mATX-boards to choose between, and maybe a notice about video accelleration and which CPUs that support this.

 

[gxtracker]

Instead of calling some configurations supported, what about making one or more recommended setups, both for hardware and software?

I think a lot of people misunderstand the term "supported".

Supported doesn't mean that their configuration won't work, it just means that they shouldn't expect official help on diagnosing the issue. other forum members may help out, and developers who might be interested in helping with the issue will give suggestions and solutions, but nothing should be expected.

So i can have a configuration that is "supported" and all that means is that the software has been tested and is known to work correctly on my hardware. it doesn't guarantee that i wont have problems, especially with the hundreds of thousands of different driver, OS and software configurations that someone could have - unless of course you get even more specific and state that you only support specific driver versions.

recommended is meant to be general - such as "i recommend you have at least a 2.0Ghz processor"
supported is meant to be more specific - such as "we support Intel Core2duo E7xxx and higher processors"

 

[Jean-Christophe]

I think a lot of people misunderstand the term "supported".

Thanks for translating my poor english in good english. In this case, I realize my english vocabulary is too poor to explain myself very well :-(

Your interpretation is just what Ihad in mind. :-D

 

[gxtracker]

Thanks for translating my poor english in good english. In this case, I realize my english vocabulary is too poor to explain myself very well :-(

I think you did a great job of explaining what you meant. I just wanted to make sure people understand the difference between supported and recommended - because i have found that even reasonable, intelligent people sometimes don't understand its meaning. I blame that knowledge on working IT support in my younger years.

MP already has a recommended configuration in the wiki which i think is great. I just think that getting more specific than that would be a huge undertaking. there are just so many working combinations of hardware/software out there that keeping an updated list of motherboards, videocards, ram, CPU's, etc... would just be a never ending cycle.

Jean-Christophe, if i look at your configuration, i can already see some potential issues. I personally would not recommend windows 7 x64 with an Intel ATOM and NVIDIA ION platform. im assuming you might have EVR set too? definitely not something i would "recommend" with 2GB system memory.

i would have recommended an XP x86 install with your hardware, which would free more resources for MP and allow for a more stable system on a more mature platform.

as well, you are using a beta version of MP + SVN. as good as the team is, if you really want stability you should probably look at going with the official release 1.0.2.