Matlab 2012b on Windows 8?

Hi,

I want to update my OS to Windows 8 but I would like to know first if anyone noticed any issues in Matlab on Windows 8. Are there any known bugs? Also is there any noticeable change in processing speed?

Thanks!

Answer 1

[Sean de Wolski]

Hi Razvan,

We have a few people here in my department using it and we haven't noticed any issues.

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

You can inspect bug reports yourself: http://www.mathworks.com/support/bugreports/search_results. None of the 250 bugs listed specifically mention Windows 8. (And luckily there are none listed for the Image Processing Toolbox either.)

Answer 3

[Jonas]

I just installed it on a windows 8 machine... And I have bugs with figures (figures with subplots and colorbars, and the numbers (on the axis) are written numerous times, whereas I just use normal commands:

      subplot(3,1,1)
      pcolor(Z)
      shading interp
      caxis([0,1e7])
      colorbar
      title('Raw chrmtgm')

I don't know if any one has a solution?) (But interestingly, this seems to be a display problem, when I save it (using "print"), it gives a normal looking figure) (but I noticed that this matlab version is not said to be windows 8 compatible... Maybe the next one will?) It's a pity, before I used matlab on Ubuntu 12.04 and was there unable to modify the size of the legends/axis labels (everything was so small it wasn't legible)...

[Razvan]

I think colorbar is not supposed to work with pcolor... Even in Win 7 you get lots of numbers if you run something like this

pcolor(hadamard(20))
colorbar

So probably this is not a Win 8 issue...

[Sean de Wolski]

@Jonas, these sound like typical OpenGL rendering issues unrelated to OS but more related to the graphics drivers. First update your graphics drivers, if that doesn't work try using:

>>opengl software

Or switching the renderer to one of the others.

[Jonas]

@ Razvan: apparently you have the same problem as me, as described by Wolski; it used to work just fine on Windows XP, and without numerous numbers (just too small when saving) on Ubuntu 12.04. And after doing what Wolski suggested it's working just fine on Windows 8 too.

@ Wolski: thank you very much! This solved the problem (updating the graphics drivers didn't work, but using just the command "opengl software" in matlab solved the issue!)