Windows 11 24H2 goes back to the drawing board over AutoCAD 2022 glitch

Microsoft has thrown up another safeguard hold for Windows 11 24H2. This time, it's problems with AutoCAD 2022 that are to blame. The issue was last night added to the ever-growing list of problems with Windows 11 24H2. In what feels a little like Microsoft slamming the stable door after the horse has bolted (Windows 11 24H2 …

[ecofeco]

This is entertaining

Autocrap, the Adobe of the engineering world, in every non-complementary sense, is borked by M$, the Adobe of operating systems?

This is side splitting entertainment!

[Jou (Mxyzptlk)]

Re: This is entertaining

As much as Visio is best for publishing and CAD?

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Re: This is entertaining

I thought you could do all the engineering diagrams in Powerpoint ?

(I do miss classic Autocad 2d on the command line )

[Wally Dug]

Re: This is entertaining

Nope.

Excel for diagrams.

And databases.

And making posters.

You can also do letters on it as well.

And - get this! - some people even use it for calculations! Fools!

[Jou (Mxyzptlk)]

Re: This is entertaining

I use excel to curse its intelligent-autodetect an silently changing whatever you input to whatever excel thinks this has to be... (IP -> Number, Number -> Date etc etc)

[David 132]

Re: This is entertaining

I do my engineering diagrams in MS Paint.

Signed,

B.S. Johnson.

[cyberdemon]

Break it, please MS

Let Autodesk fix whatever ghastly kludge lurks within their decrepit software

And then maybe Autocad will finally run properly on WINE, and rid some people of their last remaining reason to run Windows

[Snake]

Re: Break it, please MS

Nice. I wonder if Regtards can hide a bit of their bitterness, hmm?

[cyberdemon]

Re: Break it, please MS

Never!

[marcxm]

Microsoft's Windows is now truly rolling release system, like some Linux distros. The difference here is that Linux distros are stable and rarely break.

[Jou (Mxyzptlk)]

Well, you should do more research. They do. But they rarely get that spotlight, and since there is no "that Linux" it never effects that many. But hell, it happens, and then you.are.in.hell. Only if you delay those (rolling) upgrades you might then be able to find a solution to your specific issue.

[Doctor Syntax]

It's a trade-off. If someone wants to be at the leading (?bleeding) edge they can choose a rolling distro, if they want stability they can choose a stable distro.

[Fred Daggy]

In my day we had Service Packs

In my day, we had Service Packs. There were (almost) no usability changes, only rolled up, working, tested security updates. One actually looked forward to them, providing there wasn’t an audit dept asking why it wasn’t rolled out a yesterday. Why? Because it meant that the amount of patching was reduced by a huge factor.

Rolling updates mean nothing is ever finished properly. “The OS is like a dog turd sandwich, you never know what you’re going to get” to misquote someone fictional.

Now, get off my lawn.

[BinkyTheMagicPaperclip]

'Devices with the software installed will not be offered the Windows 11 24H2 update.'

The obvious question is what happens if 11 is updated and then there's an attempt to install Autocad. Presumably nothing. Slow clap..

Pity there's no detail either, so you don't know who to blame - presumably Autocad, as 2022 remains under support, and Windows 11 is a supported platform.

Yet another problem with rolling releases where 'Windows 10' in 2024 is substantially different than 'Windows 10' in 2015.

Can't remember if it's fixed yet, but the only way I found to get a Soundblaster X-Fi working on Windows 10 at some point was to install the initial release, the driver, and upgrade from there, instead of installing the latest release and then the driver.

[Roland6]

Re: 'Devices with the software installed will not be offered the Windows 11 24H2 update.'

> Yet another problem with rolling releases where 'Windows 10' in 2024 is substantially different than 'Windows 10' in 2015.

Windows 11 21H2 & 22H2 are sufficiently different to 23H2, that upgrade is not possible on all platforms and even on some, it’s a clean install (ie. Disk repartition etc.)

[Jou (Mxyzptlk)]

Re: 'Devices with the software installed will not be offered the Windows 11 24H2 update.'

You can get around the nuke-and-new-partitioning stuff, but quite often that requires external tools (minitool partition wizard or gparted on your bootable USB drive for example) due to where those partitions are placed. If you are lucky and you installation is older the boot partition is at the end, then windows internal tools are enough. You can shrink you OS partition, nuke the boot partition, recreate it with the right EFI "this is boot" tag and put the files back. Not for the faint heart, I do a full disaster-recovery-capable backup before, even though it worked every time here. That procedure was also needed for one of those Windows Updates which want to update the boot files.

For many fresh install is easier, or even better if they used optimizer-driver-helper tools on their OS.

[Groo The Wanderer - A Canuck]

Microsoft "Quality Control" - the gift that keeps on giving - whether you want it to or not.

[Grunchy]

AutoCAD R13 on Win95. Yes, yes, running as a virtual machine!

If some poor sap has to look at your design on AutoCAD 2022 on Win11, if they can get it running, it can bring in the R13 design file. No excuses will be humoured!

[Phil O'Sophical]

Windows 11 2̶4̶H̶2̶ is shaping up to be one of Microsoft's more problematic releases

FTFY

[druck]

Each release worse than the last, no doubt due to the increasing use of AI generated code slop.