SCALE on Windows 8?

[Jeffrey Ryman]

Has anyone installed and run SCALE on Windows 8?  A former colleague of mine needs a new PC and queried me.  I have successfully run versions 5.1, 6.0, and 6.1 on Windows 7, so I assume they might run on Windows 8, but I would rather advise on more than an assumption.

[Michael Huang]

I tried to install SCALE6.1 on Windows 8 but the installer wouldn't even start.

[R. Lehman]

I have it running on Win8.  Aside from the Java issue (had to reinstall Java 6 to get it to install) it appears to be working fine.  After I installed the Scale package, I installed Java 7 back and it appears to work fine, ie the test suite completed successfully. 

[HoardRW]

I've run SCALE 6.1 with Windows 8.0 and 8.1 on Microsoft's new Windows Surface Pro and Surface Pro 2 tablet machines. It works fine on these, but I have not been able to get the Java and Javapeno applets to work yet. I suspect that the Java issue is not related to Windows 8.0 - 8.1 though, since I can't get these applets to work on my Windows 7 desktop machine either.

 

RW Hoard

[HoardRW]

Note that my Java difficulties are not related to installing SCALE 6.1. They pop up whenever I try to display the resulting graphic plots such as keff convergence in the HTML output.

[Mark Massie]

Yes, you can install and run SCALE 6.1 on Windows 8. Before installing SCALE, download and install Java version 6 release 37. (If you already have Java installed, you may have to uninstall your current version before installing V6R37). Once Java 6 is installed, all of the SCALE installers and applets should work properly.