David said:
Surely this is unforgivable behaviour from any program. In my opinion
any program should detect the existing resolution and colour depth and
adjust itself accordingly. You should not have to change your settings
at all. If the program requires more colours then IT should adjust
your settings and change them back when it exits.
You know, it feels ridiculous to me than an av prog weould be designed
in the first place to need millions of colors. A setting of 16bit, thousands
of colors, should be more than adequate for a system protection utility.
(Btw, 16bit my preferred setting for notebook, conserve battery power, etc).
Heck, tor an AV scanner, I'd be perfectly content with straight black &
white. Plus maybe red for alerts.
Type of program might want millions of colors? Well, I expect maybe some
of the fancy 3d games. And if say Photoshop expected it, that'd be fair
to me, since if you're actually getting into graphics design, as end user,
you'll want to be on a system that delivers higher scale in that area.
Finally, if MSO 2003 demanded 24bit, then that'd be expected, given the
demanding personality of products from Redmond.
But that kind of high demand from an AV scanner? Huh?
I'm going to try to hope this is all a matter of beta, and that they will
get the final product to behave a bit better.
Though, in meantime, I note the design has changed changed for the the
worse in various other aspects, compared to the ver 6.
o Increased system resources (the 9x gdi etc) stuff. Still lighter than
its competition; but I noticed that where the ver6 had a very impressive
lightness of only a 2-3% drop in sys resources during a manual scan, the
ver 7 sucks up some 4x that much.
o Two different application windows opened for the manual scan in this
new version. And there are weird little things, example: avgctrl.exe,
if it is launched, it does not offer any exit command, and you have to
kill it via external means. (Turns out it is only a tray thingy, so I
learnt to avoid launching it.)
o One thing I really liked about ver6 is that you could set it up, as
manual scanner, to run completely green. All a local ini, choose your
directories, and no registry entries required. The new one can no longer
be config'd green. It requires registry entries. (Tho' I am relieved on
one thing, a worry I had when first setting it up: it turns out that the
dumping of files into %appdata% directory, that at least turns out to be
optional, user given choice there.)
But back to the important isssue. The incompatibility with video cards
and video settings (and maybe other hardware needs too?) -- the higher
demands of version 7. It is very unfortunate to witness such a design
change coming from AntiVir, since this produc had always been highly
acclaimed for was how good it was for compatibilty and gentleness on
older machines.
http://forum.antivir-pe.de/thread.php?threadid=1681&threadview=0&hilight=&hilightuser=0&page=2
: there is a known problem between Avir 7 and older drivers for older
: sound- and graphics-Cards(f.e. vodoo3-Cards and so on). The problem was
: also reported for drivers which have the WHQL-Logo.
:
: Users which have an older Equipment and drivers from perhaps the year
: 2000 should not install the Version 7 of Avir till this issue is fixed
: (or newer drivers can be installed).
: Use instead Version 6 of AVir and update only the vdf-files. Avir6 can
: work also with the newest vdf-files.
:
: Michael_Mann
: Moderator
As mentioned, I got a workaround by the temp setting for 24 bit. However,
I'm guessing that the majority of AntiVir users prefer to have the program
run as a resident scanner. So if they have circa ~2000 machines? Some users
won't have the incentive to do the tracking down manual updates for ver6.
That which I expect to not be offered for too long in any case.
I wonder if AntiVir will devote R&D towards achieving better compatibilty
with older machines in their new ver7 (and to fix that absurd 24bit req),
or will they just decide such users are SOL?
Or, maybe their R&D time is all used up with focus on their new practice of
putting "buy now" popups in the faces of their user base. That which is in
fact the most disappointing news of all the rest, concerning the direction
AntiVir is taking. I'd been a serious fan of this product for years, loved
it, so am none too happy if they go breaking my heart like this.
