Vista 7 installation

[ElT007]

Hewlett Packard replaced my 2007 Vista-based laptop instead of taking it in for service for about the 12 time. They gave me a 2010 DV7, which is a Windows 7 machine. The PT3 installation on W7 is pretty easy. However, I have two remaining issues.

#1 It automatically installed PostgreSQL 8.39 instead of 8.42, which is on my backup computer (a 2003 XP machine). Is this a problem. There seemed to be a minor glitch in restoring my database. What do I want to do about this?

#2 PT3 is now operating on Pacific coast time instead of Central time, which is causing all my games played between midnight and 2AM to show up on the wrong date. How can I fix this.

[WhiteRider]

1. What was the glitch? 8.4 Database backups should restore fine in 8.3, although this hasn't been extensively tested so it's possible something could go wrong.
Alternatively you can uninstall 8.3 and install 8.4 manually. See the uninstall/re-install guides in the Documentation.

2. PT3 uses the timezone on your computer so you should just be able to change that back.

[ElT007]

#1 It just noted the error and said some file was missing or something. Then it proceeded to restore everything normally. I won't worry about it. I am just wondering why the auto installation doesn't use the latest version. I am also making sure I am not going to have problems with 8.39 by mentioning it here.

#2 I have changed the timezone on my computer. Do I have to uninstall and reinstall the entire database now to make PT3 recognize the 1:30 ET is 12:30 central and not 10:30 PM?

[WhiteRider]

8.3.9 will be fine - that's our current recommended version, although we're not aware of any problems in 8.4.

PT3 stores times in the database as GMT, adjusted based on your timezone, so if the timezone you['re computer said you] were in when they were imported doesn't match where you are when you view them then you might see incorrect times - if that's the case then you'll need to purge and reimport, yes.

[ElT007]

Can I just restore over the current DB again? Also, why is the HUD only showing hands already in the DB and not updating ingame?

[ElT007]

I just restored and all is well datestampwise.

[WhiteRider]

Yes, that should be fine.
You'll need to re-import any hands played since the backup, of course.

As for the HUD problem, run full Database > Housekeeping, including ReIndex and REBUILD Cache on all databases used by the HUD and that should fix it.

[ElT007]

HUD working.