My church had been running Prologue SundayPlus for years. But the company
that produced it, Grass Roots Software, went out of business. So, we decided to
switch to ProPresenter from Renewed Vision. We also bought a new computer, since
our old one died. The new computer is running Windows 8. We also purchased
version 5 of ProPresenter. Well, the two don’t play well together. Things go
along merrily for a while, but eventually when we click on a slide nothing
happens. The application does not freeze, it just refuses to send the output to
the projector. Stuck, not frozen. We have observed this behavior on multiple
computers.
According to the vendor, the problem has to do with Microsoft .Net
Framework 4.5. We tried to drop back to Framework 4.0, but Windows would not
allow it.
Does anyone else have any experiences they can share with a Windows
8/ProPresenter5/.Net Framework 4.5 environment? Is anyone running successfully
in this environment? I know this is a shot in the dark, but it doesn’t hurt to
ask. The vendor seems to be sort of lost here, and we’d like to provide them
with as many data points as we can. We need to get this fixed. We have
discovered that everything seems to work fine under Windows 7/Framework 4.0, so
for the time being we have yanked the Windows 8 hard drive and stuffed in a
Windows 7 hard drive.
I like the program, by the way. But if it can’t talk to my projector it’s
sort of useless.
Bob Marshall
Cool, CA