Running IE9 on your VPC-Z1290X?

Internet Explorer 9 Beta is available and I found the system crashes when it changes performance mode (Stamina <-> Speed) if IE9 is running.

Anyone see the same issue?

--------------- Updated at 1/28/2011 -----

The following QFE from Microsoft fixes the issue in case anyone wants to try IE 9 on your Vaio Z machine:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2454826

 

OMG, I just tried and I can confirm the whole system CRASHes!!! with Stamina -> Speed.

Stay away from running IE9 beta when you change the setting.

 

I don't know how the VPC-Z's AUTO mode works, but technically speaking you shouldn't be switching graphics while an app is open, period.

Granted, some apps tend to crash while others don't when switching graphics with those apps running.

IE9 uses hardware acceleration for most of its rendering (from what I hear). I guess that's why the Z crashes. Might pay to wait for the official release when they start supporting the graphics drivers properly.

 

Confirmed both Auto and Manual switching of SPEED/STAMINA crashes the whole system.

Hope we will soon see update from Microsoft/Sony/nVidia

 

Curiousity got the better of me and I installed IE9.
I have a VGN-Z and switching from STAMINA to SPEED goes without issues. Going from SPEED to STAMINA results in a dxdiag crash (graphics related), with a BSOD.

IE8 used to crash as well when switching graphics (not always though), but that was just an app crash; the whole OS didn't go blue over it.

Anyways, reverting back to IE8. IE9 looks ok, but would have liked tabs to be at least above or below the address bar... And some other small issues here and there...

 

Gonna test this on my Intel Hybrid Graphics laptop. I've haven't experienced a BSOD in a while.

edit: What a fun ride. Thank you dxgmms1.sys

 

will the ie9 make optimus laptops crash too?

 

*happily uses Chrome*

 

*Unhappily uses Chrome, but still more happy than if I were using a different web browser*

 

Love the smooth scrolling in ie9...reminds me of using osx

 

me too. same problem.. any solutions?? I really like ie9 (much more than chrome)...

 

Your only solution is to wait. Read: this is IE9 BETA.
If someone suddenly goes along trying to fix this and IE9 gets an update, then well, your patch might just end up completely useless.

Hardware acceleration doesn't seem to like hard-wired hardware changes on the go.

So, when SPEED mode is selected on the VGN and VPC Z, both the nVidia and Intel cards are on. Switch from SPEED to STAMINA and just the nVidia card turns off. Since a card is still there, IE9 goes on without complaint; the nVidia card is prioritised when on SPEED and when switching to STAMINA that priority is given to the Intel chip.

Though when on STAMINA and switching to SPEED, the nVidia card, IE9's point of view, is a sudden hardware addition with the so-called priority change as well (which I guess doesn't go down well with the hardware acceleration module); alas, why one gets the BSOD when going from STAMINA to SPEED.

Really ain't sure how OPTIMUS will handle this; we'll have to wait and see how MS handles the updates.

 

namaiki, why unhappily?

 

because the current stable build crashes all tabs that opened from another tab when I close the originating tab and I have no idea why it is doing that. :/

 

Is this happening with 64 or 32 bit IE9, or both ?

 

Actually, I'm not even sure that the VPC-Z comes in the 32bit flavours...?
I'm using W7 x64 with a VGN-Z; crashing with BSOD is there.

 

That does not matter sir. I have the 64bit OS and still running IE9 32bit, and plenty other programs in 32bit, actually most of them

 

Oh, that sucks. I'm running the beta channel version and I haven't had any problems with crashing for years now.

 

can't one somehow just add IE9 to the black-list of applications-- the application for which the drivers wont make the switch when they are running. The drivers already do this for games, etc. no?

 

The crashes that I was experiencing are fixed in the current dev build. (7.0.517.8)

Happy again. ^^