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jaxmkii
New Participant
August 29, 2014

Noob Question about Installing drivers on windows 8.

HOW!?

I've been out of the PC world since Vista and now my new rig has W8 I try to run the Oculous run time exe and it ask what app do I want to use. its a EXE it should just run right? :oops:

    6 replies

    klasodeth
    Participant
    August 30, 2014
    Yes, it should just run. If it's not running, perhaps you should download it again. It might be corrupt somehow.
    datenwolf
    Up and Coming
    September 8, 2014
    It depends on which graphic API the program is using. If it's Direct3D it should work, if it's OpenGL you have to do some work:

    Microsoft has this annoying habit of stripping away the OpenGL parts of the graphics drivers that are automatically installed by the Windows installation and the Windows Updater; which leaves you with just the OpenGL-1.4 emulation which is on the technological stage of about 2002 or so (no shaders, no buffer objects, just register combiners, annoying).

    Hence you should always download the drivers for your GPU directly from the manufacturers website and install those.
    klasodeth
    Participant
    September 8, 2014
    "datenwolf" wrote:
    It depends on which graphic API the program is using. If it's Direct3D it should work, if it's OpenGL you have to do some work:

    Microsoft has this annoying habit of stripping away the OpenGL parts of the graphics drivers that are automatically installed by the Windows installation and the Windows Updater; which leaves you with just the OpenGL-1.4 emulation which is on the technological stage of about 2002 or so (no shaders, no buffer objects, just register combiners, annoying).

    Hence you should always download the drivers for your GPU directly from the manufacturers website and install those.

    That's definitely good advice, but the OP's problem sounds like the executable is somehow being treated as an unrecognized file format. Now that I think of it, perhaps the extension accidentally got deleted somehow? It needs the .EXE at the end, or Windows won't know it's an EXE file.
    cybereality
    Inspiring
    September 8, 2014
    There is a security "feature" on Internet Explorer where it seems to remove the ".exe" from the file name. All you have to do is edit the file name and add the ".exe". Or you can download with Firefox/Chrome.
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    datenwolf
    Up and Coming
    September 8, 2014
    And here I sit, a Linux / Unix guy for 20 years, in bewilderment that Windows still relies on filename suffixes to identify files; either their type or if they are executable. It's… bizarre.
    gordel
    New Participant
    October 10, 2014
    when downloading the OculusVR Windows Installer select save as and add .exe to the name of the file it will run after that.
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