[Leica] Windows 11 ?

Mon Jun 28 07:55:49 PDT 2021

Based upon Jayanand's emails, I decided to find out if WIN11 is in my future.

My 6 year old Dell i5 processor based laptop is not.  Apparently the processor is not supported.

Genuine Intel i5 processor. 16gb Ram.  Not really likely to be the problem....

Something is fishy...... if you read through the list of minimum specs, I check each box.

Best to test compatibility again, later...

Note that MS does promise to continue with Win10 into the future.

The good news?  I do not have to re-learn where MS will put everything I now know exists.....

Frank Filippone
BMWRed735i at Gmail.com
On 6/27/2021 11:29 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote:
> Make sure you meet all the conditions, and approach Secure Boot with some
> trepidation. I just decided to get my computer ready for Windows 11, and
> enabled Secure Boot on my PC, and it would not even boot into BIOS again
> after that. I have just wasted half a day debugging that, gaining access to
> BIOS again, and turning the Secure Boot setting off  to get the computer
> working again! The culprit was my Asus/Nvidia Graphics Card which seems to
> be not compliant - it is a bit long in the tooth as GPUs go, but is working
> very well, so I have to figure out whether an upgrade lies in my future or
> not! I will probably just postpone migrating to Windows 11 for the time
> being - as of now there does not seem to be any compelling reason to do so,
> other than it is free!
>
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 6:09 AM Ken Carney via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
> wrote:
>
>> OK, we are both ready to upgrade to Windows 11 for a “calm and creative
>> experience”. Per Microsoft.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On Jun 26, 2021, at 6:04 PM, Sonny Carter via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
>> wrote:
>>> Yes, Ken,
>>>
>>> Sharpen was running really slowly on my 2 gb video card. I contacted
>> their
>>> support with a list of my home-built computer innards, and they suggested
>>> an 8 gig card.  It runs great now.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Sonny
>>> http://sonc.com <http://sonc.com/look/>
>>> Natchitoches, Louisiana
>>> 1714
>>> Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase
>>>
>>> USA
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 5:15 PM Ken Carney via LUG <lug at leica-users.org
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Not a PC expert here, but I believe some of these apps rely on vram much
>>>> more than system ram.  That was my case with Gigapixel and I upgraded
>>>> the graphics card and amount of vram.  But then, in your case, Gigapixel
>>>> is working OK, so I don't know.  From what I have read 4-8gb of vram is
>>>> optimal.
>>>>
>>>> Ken
>>>>
>>>>> On 6/25/2021 3:01 PM, Paul Roark via LUG wrote:
>>>>> Well this is weird.  I found the "Enhanced" function in my PS CC.  And
>> on
>>>>> my Microsoft graphics oriented PC, "Super Resolution" immediately
>> crashes
>>>>> the system.  In fact, such that I appear to have to unplug the computer
>>>>> before it will even attempt to reboot.  When it does reboot, it goes
>> into
>>>>> an "Installing updates" mode for a while.
>>>>>
>>>>> It looks like MS and Adobe have some sort of fatal incompatibility for
>> my
>>>>> MS computer.  This computer is basically a beautiful monitor with the
>> PC
>>>>> guts crammed into the base of the monitor.  That base feels very hot
>> now.
>>>>> Perhaps whatever the PS routine is doing, it is somehow over-stressing
>>>> the
>>>>> machine, triggering some circuit breaker type of immediate shutdown.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyway, for my system (and I'd guess potentially others) until MS and
>>>> Adobe
>>>>> cure the issue, I'm going to avoid this procedure.  Topaz Gigapixel AI
>>>>> works just fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> Paul
>>>>> www.PaulRoark.com
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 8:23 AM Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <
>>>>> lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> It is a new feature that came to Camera Raw a little while ago, and to
>>>>>> Lightroom CC in the last update - but is applicable only to RAW files.
>>>>>> After you import a RAW file into Lightroom CC or Adobe Camera RAW,
>> right
>>>>>> click on the image, and choose "Enhance", which opens up a menu which
>>>>>> allows you to enhance details, and/or double the resolution (called
>>>> Super
>>>>>> Resolution) using machine learning, which is the same as AI in
>>>> Topazspeak.
>>>>>> Alternatively, you can access the feature in Lightroom CC using
>>>>>> Photo/Enhance from the menu. IMHO, not as good as Gigapixel when
>> looked
>>>> at
>>>>>> very closely on a monitor, but should not matter at all in the real
>>>> world.
>>>>>> It is definitely less flexible than Gigapixel. without a doubt,
>> though.
>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>> Jayanand
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 8:03 PM Paul Roark via LUG <
>> lug at leica-users.org
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Jayanand wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>>> The new "Enhance" function in PS and Lightroom is almost as good as
>>>>>> Topaz
>>>>>>>> Gigapixel. ...
>>>>>>> Where is this "enhanced" function in Photoshop.  I may have missed
>>>>>>> something.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> (And congrats on the Mylapore photo; it's outstanding.)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Paul
>>>>>>> www.PaulRoark.com
>>>>>>>
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