Windows Vista Beta 2 - Available to the public :)

[acole1]

Originally posted by: fbrdphreak

Originally posted by: acole1
Well vista seems to be running fine even though it didn't finnish... I can't test Aero though because I only have a 64MB nvidia quadro vidio card.

Really? What Quadro?

Quadro NVS 280 POS

Actualy, I was able to get it to run Aero decently! It looks nice, I just forgot how to do that 3D window shift thing.... what do you do again?

 

[BD2003]

I think its start+tab. But it is the most useless thing in the world. Regular alt-tab is more useful because you can see all the windows at once rather than flip through them sequentially. It looks cool, but I'll never, ever use it, and I'd much rather have the memory it sucks up back. Its nothing more than a glorified alt-tab, unlike the actually useful expose in OSX.

MS is using the 3d acceleration in vista for basically nothing more than that retarded alt-tab and to make minimizes look cool. Rather than doing something useful like breaking the link between resolution and window/text size. As cool as the minimizes look, I'm actually considering turning glass off - its utterly useless.

 

[nitsuj3580]

is there any chance someone in the DC metro area or Northern Virginia has downloaded this already and can meet up with me to give me a copy (I'll supply the DVD)? I've registered and have my key but can't download through MS and the torrents are dragging for me. Please shoot me a PM as I'd like to play with Vista this weekend hopefully.

Mods, if this is inappropriate, I apologize. I assumed since it's publicly available, it would be ok.

 

[ryan256]

Anyone have a working link for the x86 torrent or a working download link?? I have been trying to download the torrent on the first page for 2 days now & so far have nothing.

 

[MBentz]

Any news on an X-Fi driver for the 64-bit version?

 

[Linflas]

What exactly is the purpose of the MS Akamai download manager? Isn't the whole purpose of a download manager to resume interrupted downloads? This thing just dies with a typical no info MS error box that says "An irrecoverable has occured" about 1GB into the download. :|

 

[BD2003]

 

[BD2003]

^^^

That was a quality rant about how aggravating the new explorer is - in its current state, its practically useless, and its not because of bugs, just the way its built.

But alas, IE7 appears to have the feature of quietly erasing any badmouthing when you so much as click another window.

Right now the interface of vista is intended to be used by absolute retards, at the expense of everyone who has ever used a computer before. There is all sorts of functionality that power users could tap into, if there weren't a few simple things that make it so painful to use.

 

[Reckoner]

How big of a performance increase is there going from 1 gig -> 2 gigs of RAM with Vista?

 

[Shawn]

HTF do I get the cd key. There is no option on their site.

 

[Reckoner]

Originally posted by: Shawn
HTF do I get the cd key. There is no option on their site.

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[fbrdphreak]

Originally posted by: PaulNEPats

Originally posted by: Shawn
HTF do I get the cd key. There is no option on their site.

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The link is in the OP of this thread, as is the link for the x86 torrent.

I go to all this work for you a-holes and you can't even read the fvcking OP :|

 

[thescreensavers]

I feel stupid but can you uninstall vista if upgrade?

 

[fbrdphreak]

^^
Delete partition? I think since Vista uses its own boot manager, diff from XP, you can probly just remove the partition and voila

But I'm not 100% sure

 

[Zorro]

What virus program should we run with it ?

 

[fbrdphreak]

^^
I know NOD32 has a 64-bit trial version. Symantec probably has one too

 

[Slicedbread]

I only had it installed for about 4 hours before I reinstalled xp, I guess I will wait for RC1. Its basically xp with a paint job and stability issues.

 

[typerlover]

2 gb ram here. Athlon X2 3800 at 2.3 and 7900gt. Still sluggish resizing windows

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: fbrdphreak

Originally posted by: PaulNEPats

Originally posted by: Shawn
HTF do I get the cd key. There is no option on their site.

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The link is in the OP of this thread, as is the link for the x86 torrent.

I go to all this work for you a-holes and you can't even read the fvcking OP :|

I read the OP and your link doesn't work. I got the key by following the procedure in that other thread.

 

[batmang]

im digging it. system is 1.25gb ram, sempron 2800+ @ 2.41ghz, geforce fx5500 256mb vid card. im not a pc gamer anymore.. ive recently converted to the 360,
this beta is running much smoother compared to the first beta.


vista 1
vista 2
vista 3

it sure beats boring ass windows xp.

 

[Mayfriday0529]

I installed it on my machine on a extra Hard drive. It went very smooth. AMD 3000+ 64bit, 1gig of ram. Geforce 6600 PCIe. The only issues i had was with display problems. A window would come up asking for permission to a certain program or control window and each time my screen would shrink up and be in black and white. Also my video card was not powerfull enough i guess for the Aero feature. I didnt even see an option to turn that on, but not even the screen savers would work.
I wanted to take some snapshots of it but they all failed. I would get a shrink and black and white everytime as a result.

 

[Linux23]

I must say that this is the most useless version of Windows yet.

The thing is a pig. There should be no reason any OS should consume 800MB of system memory out of the box.

I pray and hope that Microsoft falls flat on their face in their effort to create the most bloated OS in existance.

 

[Number1]

Originally posted by: Linux23
I must say that this is the most useless version of Windows yet.

The thing is a pig. There should be no reason any OS should consume 800MB of system memory out of the box.

I pray and hope that Microsoft falls flat on their face in their effort to create the most bloated OS in existance.

Your credibility as a windows critic is rather dubious considering your name.
Go back to your linux crap and STFU.

 

[fbrdphreak]

Originally posted by: Linux23
I must say that this is the most useless version of Windows yet.

The thing is a pig. There should be no reason any OS should consume 800MB of system memory out of the box.

I pray and hope that Microsoft falls flat on their face in their effort to create the most bloated OS in existance.

Looking at the username, who here is surprised?

 

[Rogodin2]

I have it on our server, seperate drive, and I'm running BF2 just fine! I really like it so far.

Rogo