Eprime on Windows XP recap

[Leisha Wharfield]

Thanks to everyone who responded to my questions regarding running 
experiments and programming experiments with Eprime on various Windows 
operating systems. The consensus is that Eprime 1.1 was designed to work 
with XP & does so very well, also that it's been out for a few years and 
is no longer in beta testing. One respondent shared my belief that 
Windows 98 is easier for Eprime to dominate completely (XP seems loaded 
with "processes" that are always running), allowing greater accuracy 
with time-critical measures. He also suggested that I could update my 
hardware, but wipe the newer OS & replace it with Windows 9X.

Another respondent suggested that both programming the experiment and 
running it should be done in the same environment, to avoid introducing 
errors caused by inconsistencies between various OSs.

I need to tightly control timing, so I still favor 98. But if tests for 
timing accuracy with Windows XP produce good results, I may go with XP.

Thanks everyone.

Leisha Wharfield
Decision Research
Eugene, Oregon, USA

David Hairston wrote:

>You should do all the programming in the same environment that it will be run in. Ideally on the same computer even, that way you can pre-assess all the timing etc and know exactly how it will work out at run time.
>We do all our programming on XP w/o any problems.
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>W. David Hairston
>Neurobiology and Anatomy
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>Wake Forest University School of Medicine
>Winston-Salem, NC 27157
>(336) 716-4481 (lab)
>http://www.wfubmc.edu/nba/
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: eprime at mail.talkbank.org [mailto:eprime at mail.talkbank.org] On Behalf Of Leisha Wharfield
>Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 1:20 PM
>To: Jan Frederik Léger; eprime at mail.talkbank.org
>Subject: Re: Eprime on Windows XP
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>Great. Thanks for letting me know. What about programming using an XP operating system? Any problems there? I'm still programming in Windows 98.
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>Thanks,
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>Leisha Wharfield
>Decision Research
>Eugene, Oregon USA
>leisha at decisionresearch.org
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>Jan Frederik Léger wrote:
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>>Hi Leisha,
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>>We run E-Prime version 1.1.4.1 on Windows XP without any problem. As 
>>far as I know, this is not in beta testing anymore.
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>>Kind regards,
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