Windows Vista Beta 2 - Available to the public :)

[Journer]

DP sorry

 

[Pepsi90919]

Gateway Timeout
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Reference #1.144ea7ce.1149741659.81e60b

 

[Raduque]

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/preview.mspx

Go from here to get your CD key

 

[13Gigatons]

This is the slowest download ever......I'm stuck at 43%.....why don't they allow isp's to cache large files.

 

[Pepsi90919]

i'm still rockin at 1%

 

[OREOSpeedwagon]

Oh man, I might install this on my Macbook when it comes in a few weeks.

 

[eminemrh25]

I've had this for a long time... Its good to be a MCE Tester!

 

[Journer]

Originally posted by: OREOSpeedwagon
Oh man, I might install this on my Macbook when it comes in a few weeks.

i'm gonna pt it on mine...ill let u kow how it goes

 

[ballmode]

hmmm

 

[OREOSpeedwagon]

Originally posted by: Journer

Originally posted by: OREOSpeedwagon
Oh man, I might install this on my Macbook when it comes in a few weeks.

i'm gonna pt it on mine...ill let u kow how it goes

awesome, shoot me a PM and let me know how it fares!

 

[Journer]

Originally posted by: OREOSpeedwagon

Originally posted by: Journer

Originally posted by: OREOSpeedwagon
Oh man, I might install this on my Macbook when it comes in a few weeks.

i'm gonna pt it on mine...ill let u kow how it goes

awesome, shoot me a PM and let me know how it fares!

i will if this pos download would finish...lol

 

[iamaelephant]

Originally posted by: Journer
one thing i cant figure out is why MS hasnt offered "game mode" you know how you have safe mode? Well, why not have another mode that is strictly for gaming. Install your ****** under normal mode, reboot into game mode with only networking, sound, and good video ability. no (GUI: explorer) just have a simple menu that displays all your installed games, and choose one. no antivirus, antisspyware, IE, NOTHING...just the bare basics for running a game...i think it would improve performance a LOT...just a theory though...maybe they tried it and it had no effect?

Wow, that's a really, really excellent idea. Someone get onto this!!

 

[iamaelephant]

Originally posted by: iamaelephant
Think I'll try this out, need a format anyway. I don't play games (occassionally SimCity 4 though) and The GIMP is the most resource intensive program I use. Do you guys think it will work okay on this system?

AMD Sempron 2200
512mb RAM
9600 pro 128mb

Is anyone able to answer my question here? ^^

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS
Good luck actually getting it.

I've been on it for over an hour & have ~100 megs.

Wait until tomorrow there should be torrents all over the place.

Viper GTS

Uhhh isn't this kinda illegal. If there are torrents, you can't activate. Microsoft's point with this is to limit the distribution to only a few users. If every newb jumps on this, MS will be otu of keys and then they will shut it down.

BTW, there are thousands of torrents out already.

This was out on May 22nd, so you guys don't really need to wait if you're that desperate.

That said, I've been running Vista 5384.4 x64 for a while, and it's a decent OS. I havent seen much change from 5365, but yea..

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

BTW, I highly recommend 2GB of ram. I've used 1GB on Vista and it's slow as hell. 1GB on Vista feels about the same as 512 on XP. I hope ATOTers aren't as dumb as some people on the torrent sites who install it on their 512mb computers. 2GB is about hte same as 1GB in XP. You can do pretty much everything, but once you throw in memory intensive stuff, your system crawls. 4GB makes Vista flyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Originally posted by: iamaelephant

Originally posted by: iamaelephant
Think I'll try this out, need a format anyway. I don't play games (occassionally SimCity 4 though) and The GIMP is the most resource intensive program I use. Do you guys think it will work okay on this system?

AMD Sempron 2200
512mb RAM
9600 pro 128mb

a

Is anyone able to answer my question here? ^^

Don't even try. Vista boots up using 500mb of my page file. Open IE7, MS Word, Outlook, I'm up to 1gb. Close those and open Media Center, I'm still around 1gb. Close Media Center and I'm still around 900mb. Horrible at clearing out used ram...

BTW.. Opteron 170 here w/ 2gb ram...

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: iamaelephant

Originally posted by: iamaelephant
Think I'll try this out, need a format anyway. I don't play games (occassionally SimCity 4 though) and The GIMP is the most resource intensive program I use. Do you guys think it will work okay on this system?

AMD Sempron 2200
512mb RAM
9600 pro 128mb

Is anyone able to answer my question here? ^^

you need at least a gig of ram. 2gb for it to run smoothly.

 

[nsafreak]

Originally posted by: DLeRium
BTW, I highly recommend 2GB of ram. I've used 1GB on Vista and it's slow as hell. 1GB on Vista feels about the same as 512 on XP. I hope ATOTers aren't as dumb as some people on the torrent sites who install it on their 512mb computers. 2GB is about hte same as 1GB in XP. You can do pretty much everything, but once you throw in memory intensive stuff, your system crawls. 4GB makes Vista flyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Originally posted by: iamaelephant

Originally posted by: iamaelephant
Think I'll try this out, need a format anyway. I don't play games (occassionally SimCity 4 though) and The GIMP is the most resource intensive program I use. Do you guys think it will work okay on this system?

AMD Sempron 2200
512mb RAM
9600 pro 128mb

a

Is anyone able to answer my question here? ^^

Don't even try. Vista boots up using 500mb of my page file. Open IE7, MS Word, Outlook, I'm up to 1gb. Close those and open Media Center, I'm still around 1gb. Close Media Center and I'm still around 900mb. Horrible at clearing out used ram...

BTW.. Opteron 170 here w/ 2gb ram...

Does anybody else think that this is getting a bit crazy?? 2GB of RAM to run a bloody operating system smoothly? Hell a lot of games don't require that much to run smoothly and this includes a fair amount of new releases. If this really is true (haven't loaded it up on my system yet) then I'm definitely going to hold off on upgrading to Vista. I just can't figure out why any operating system needs that much ram. If it's for the pretty interface then I still don't understand it. If you've looked at KDE or GNOME with AGLX loaded they can do some pretty neat stuff including the stuff that Vista can do. And yet they don't require 2GB of RAM to run smoothly. This smells of some sloppy coding.

 

[LcarsSystem]

Wow, I spiked and I'm holding at 1.4Mb/sec sweetness, should have this loaded up and tested by tomorrow.

Edit:

Uhh question here, I am thinking of just partitioning some space, then transfering the file onto the partition, what do I need to read the file right now its just an icon not associated with any program.

 

[fbrdphreak]

Originally posted by: nsafreak
Does anybody else think that this is getting a bit crazy?? 2GB of RAM to run a bloody operating system smoothly? Hell a lot of games don't require that much to run smoothly and this includes a fair amount of new releases. If this really is true (haven't loaded it up on my system yet) then I'm definitely going to hold off on upgrading to Vista. I just can't figure out why any operating system needs that much ram. If it's for the pretty interface then I still don't understand it. If you've looked at KDE or GNOME with AGLX loaded they can do some pretty neat stuff including the stuff that Vista can do. And yet they don't require 2GB of RAM to run smoothly. This smells of some sloppy coding.

It isn't sloppy coding, it is a beta. Also, this is a 3D accelerated user interface. Much like a Mac, it will perform correspondingly better with more RAM and a better GPU. A lot of games run fine with 1GB, but really shine with 2GB. RAM is cheap, invest in some more

 

[CVSiN]

sigh site is being hammered
cant even get in the queue

 

[fbrdphreak]

Bump for more info in the OP

Someone find me an x64 torrent!!!

 

[BD2003]

Anyone got a guide to dual booting?

 

[CVSiN]

there is a post in the OS section about DB.. aparently its not as friendly as before and requires an .exe off the CD to make any changes..
they did away with boot.ini

 

[SuperSix]

Originally posted by: BD2003
Anyone got a guide to dual booting?

That's what I'm wondering - will it dual boot?

 

[fbrdphreak]

Some dual booting info added