Is 8.0 really buggy?

[SimonH]

Anyone else found their FLX crashing on a regular basis since installing 8.0? We have 2 here and I used our spare at the beginning of the year on an external show after it had returned from the repair guy and loaded 8.0 on to it. During plotting the desk froze on numerous occassions especially when programming the moving lights.

My main desk in the venue continued to run 7.13 with no problems at all including using the movers once they returned.

2 weeks ago, having forgotten about the desk crashes I installed 8.0 onto the main desk and we've had half a dozen freezing/crashing issues. Swapped over to the spare desk and the same so have now dialled both back to 7.14 and will see how that goes.

No-one left at Zero to report it to or who seems to care so looks like I'll be losing all the upgrades that came with 8.0

[Davidmk]

I was setting up a basic showfile for a new client's venue from scratch a bit back and installed v8 before starting. I had a crash in programming and while I couldn't be sure it wouldn't have happened with the old version (I've had crashes with v7.14.3) I regressed the desk and started again. Since then I haven't dared try v8 again. Only rational if you consider how bad it looks if you are working in a professional venue, spurning their house desk, and have to restart your own mid show.

Back in the day, when I had a day job in IT, the rule was never install an even numbered release. The even numbered ones (and that especially includes .0 ones) tend to have new features, the odd ones have the bug fixes to the even ones. Maybe that's a still a good rule to follow