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[Drone]

I tried VMWare player first (latest version) and it didn't work at all.

Shame. I didn't know player doesn't support it. I've installed w8 on a laptop but I'll try to install it on vmware workstation 8 aswel.

 

[Derek12]

I will try VMware Workstation 8 as well just in case it works better than VirtualBox here

Maybe I will try it also in a spare HDD that I have lying around, I am curious! but most probably no, because I have to take the PC out of the desk and I am lazy to do so

 

[LifeOnMars]

Well I now have it installed on my SSD and I'm liking it so far though I feel a bit lost Installing drivers at the moment. Time to try some games in a bit

 

[H82LUZ73]

Wow this thing is awesome ,I have AMD driver cat 11.8 installed on my hd2900xt (in the computer will try the 4870`s in crossfire on the weekend)But nothing has said to me yet .Also installing Battlefield Play4 Free right now. Anyone know where i can get the vista win7 x64 driver for my onboard HDmax sound?

 

[LifeOnMars]

Woah, check out the memory power options in the power options....WTF does all that mean

 

[Drone]

I will try VMware Workstation 8 as well just in case it works better than VirtualBox here

Maybe I will try it also in a spare HDD that I have lying around, I am curious! but most probably no, because I have to take the PC out of the desk and I am lazy to do so

I remember there were rumors that W8 can have a "portable" version. You could carry your OS with all your data in your pocket (as a thumb drive). If that comes true in the final build that'd be really awsum.

Well I now have it installed on my SSD and I'm liking it so far though I feel a bit lost Installing drivers at the moment. Time to try some games in a bit

ah lol btw W8 has old ms ahci drivers. Even tho realtek lan and wireless were up to date out of box.

 

[cheesy999]

I remember there were rumors that W8 can have a "portable" version. You could carry your OS with all your data in your pocket (as a thumb drive). If that comes true in the final build that'd be really awsum.



ah lol btw W8 has old ms ahci drivers. Even tho realtek lan and wireless were up to date out of box.

control panel --> users

will let you use your windows live/Hotmail/MSN email as a roaming user account between different windows 8 PC's

 

[erixx]

Installed like a real man: no virtual machines, just on a spare partition on my brand new CosmosS (lol)

Fun thing is W7 disapeared from boot menu, Balmeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer!!!!
But was able to restore it faster than ever, so it is really a nice re-thinking of the old Windows.

I like how it runs, and some features, but the main desktop (Metro) and the rather poor or minimalistic pop ups is not for me, I would rather return to Vista elegance.

 

[GodfreyOuwens]

Great info on getting the start button back ! thanks ..

 

[digibucc]

it's basically windows with a start screen instead of a start menu.

you click start on your keyboard or the screen and it opens the "metro" screen. I am sure there will be an option to disable that in the final version, regardless of their touch UI touting.
there is no way they will take away the classic start menu, and expect this to be used on desktops at the same time.

not saying UI change is bad, just saying a touch-centric os on a desktop with no touch screens makes zero sense. it's in no way easier to use (vs 7) sans touchscreen, and regardless of wishes they are not ubiquitous.

 

[95Viper]

Thanks, digibucc, for the dual boot info.
I think, I may try this.

Very interesting and some good info coming in here, I am subscribed to keep up on the information flow.

 

[Derek12]

Cool tried in VMware Workstation 8, in one word: AWESOME

Windows 8 worked me out of the box without any problems unlike Virtualbox,
VMware Tools works without any problems, now Windows 8 is smooth without any lag, with only 512 MB ram assigned and the resolution fully configurable.
Didn't happened any stability issues so far.

Drone, try it for sure


PS: Here I got the "empty green screen" too but logging off, then logging on again solves it



Does anyone noticed sometimes scrollbars stop working (the bar moves itself but the scrollable content remains fixed)? this happens in Metro and Control panel.

 

[stinger608]

Thanks, digibucc, for the dual boot info.
I think, I may try this.

Very interesting and some good info coming in here, I am subscribed to keep up on the information flow.

I agree with Viper; thanks Digibucc for stating the dual boot!!!

Installed like a real man: no virtual machines, just on a spare partition on my brand new CosmosS (lol)

Fun thing is W7 disapeared from boot menu, Balmeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer!!!!
But was able to restore it faster than ever, so it is really a nice re-thinking of the old Windows.

I like how it runs, and some features, but the main desktop (Metro) and the rather poor or minimalistic pop ups is not for me, I would rather return to Vista elegance.

What did you do to get the Windows 7 boot option back? did you just have to use your Windows 7 disk?

 

[dark2099]

been checking this out a touch, cpu-z 1.58 x64 off the windows 7 partition (dual booting, and win 7 didnt disappear as a boot option) causes the system to freeze, havent tried downloading it on the win 8 partition

 

[johnnyfiive]

EVGA ELeet and CPUZ both cause the system freeze for me as well dark. It did this for me on a 'upgrade' and fresh install.

 

[stinger608]

Well I have been playing with this for about 20 minutes, and so far I like it. Not crazy about the opening "start" screen or menu, but that can be changed.

 

[Drone]

Drone, try it for sure
PS: Here I got the "empty green screen"
Does anyone noticed sometimes scrollbars stop working (the bar moves itself but the scrollable content remains fixed)? this happens in Metro and Control panel.

I will

Yes, on real machine I got the same bugs (green screen and locked scrollbars). I didn't get any critical bugs tho. For a preview build I think it's pretty fine Later I will install some programming languages and see how they will work And also (later when I'm home) I'm gonna install old school games like Quake 1, Unreal and Deus Ex and dos-box games too.

I see there's 16bit support in control panel still didn't check what it is.

 

[stinger608]

I will

Yes, on real machine I got the same bugs (green screen and locked scrollbars). I didn't get any critical bugs tho. For a preview build I think it's pretty fine Later I will install some programming languages and see how they will work And also (later when I'm home) I'm gonna install old school games like Quake 1, Unreal and Deus Ex and dos-box games too.

I see there's 16bit support in control panel still didn't check what it is.

Ah good idea Drone!!! Install some of the "old school games!" It would be very cool if they "heard" all the users of Windows 7 regarding the older games and software!

 

[GodfreyOuwens]

no scrolling bugs on clean install for me.

I installed Steam and Lineage II and so far both of those games run great.

 

[Drone]

Update:

I tried to install W8 on VMW8 (as Windows 7) and it didn't work. The error says:

"Vmware Workstation 8 Windows Cannot Read the <ProductKey> settings from the unattend answer file" error. And virtual machine got stuck in a reboot loop and I can't do a thing. (obviously we can't enter productkey) but I found solution in teh interwebz and now it's installing/booting. The solution is pretty easy. Everyone who gets this error here how to solve it:

Power off W8 Virtual Machine then goto vm settings and disconnect floppy

That's all. If it was posted before then my bad.


Update 2: Just finished installation. Clean event viewer. No errors.

Update 3: Two updates are available. I already installed

KB2616676 It arrived this Tuesday for Windows 7/XP/Vista/Server (Fraudulent digital certificates could allow spoofing)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2616676

and KB2614194 That's gotta be Windows 8 exclusive patch lol. The first!

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[Frick]

To heck with it.

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

I cant get the build to actually boot up. I have no problem formatting a disc and actually installing windows, but when it tries to boot into Windows for the first time i get an error saying that something is wrong with my pc and i can search online and blah blah blah. It was a dpc watch dog violation. Cant get past it.

 

[Frick]

I cant get the build to actually boot up. I have no problem formatting a disc and actually installing windows, but when it tries to boot into Windows for the first time i get an error saying that something is wrong with my pc and i can search online and blah blah blah. It was a dpc watch dog violation. Cant get past it.

I get that too, running a VM. Searching online I come here.

And a messege saying I have to reinstall.

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

I get that too, running a VM. Searching online I come here.

And a messege saying I have to reinstall.

Im not going to dick around with it anymore. If its not a sweet easy install for me to fuck around with it, I want nothing to do with it.

 

[Derek12]

Seems that GPUZ and CPUZ have problems, what I don't know if it's because of Windows 8 or because it's a Virtual machine (if this is the case, I though it emulates physical hardware to the VM, I am very noob with virtual machines)

GPUZ is almost all blank and reports VMware as my video card despite installed the Tools and CPUZ is largely correct but reports wrong voltage, multiplier and Bus speed, oh and in motherboard it says is a Intel 440BX Desktop Reference Platform