Windows 7 BETA Problem/Bug Report

[Steevo]

Wow, after having a few random lockups in Vista during gameplay, and some stuttering. Windows 7 it is completely gone. I just launched my Steam games from the Vista partition, and they are all there, and only required minor updates, the Cinematic mods are all there.



I tried the new ATI drivers, but they gave me a lined white screen, and then the system hard locked, so i reinstalled the Windows 7 drivers from update, and no issues. The card still supposedly fails even at stock settings in overdrive, however I just played 30 minutes of cinemod HL at 750 core, and it was stable, no missing textures or other issues. So I suspect that the ATI overdrive test isn't ready for Windows 7 yet.


If you read most of the connect documentation of the WAIK, and other software to use with this, it is just a mopped up Vista with more of the stuff they orginally promised us in Vista. If they don't release a Windows 7 from Vista upgrade that only costs $50 US there will be alot of people going on the "high seas" to get a copy.

 

[Steevo]

Statistics
Average FPS: 37.11
Duration: 37.70 sec
CPU Usage: 46%
System memory usage: 68%
Video memory usage: 88%

Graphics Settings
Video Mode: 1680 x 1050 (60 Hz)
Texture Quality: High
Render Quality: Very High
Reflection Resolution: Very High
Water Quality: Very High
Shadow Quality: Very High
View Distance: 32
Detail Distance: 76
Definition: Off
VSync: Off

Hardware
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
Video Adapter: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series (Prerelease - WDDM 1.1)
Video Driver version: 8.14.10.630
Audio Adapter: Headphones (High Definition Audio Device)
AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 940 Processor

File ID: benchmark.cli


Benchmark with all the new updates in Windows 7


Later I wil try it in Vista.

 

[LiveOrDie]

just installed a steam game dont know if it a problem with win 7 or every os, but when installing lag my system takes like 2 min to open up firefox lol

 

[Edito]

Hi ppl, im having probs with 7 to be specific with media player, every time i play music there the quality decrese when it have to change track but if i choose manually it plays normaly with quality and everthing but when it changes auto it feels like de EQ is disabled does anyone know how can i fix it?

Thanks...(sorry if this is not the place to post this)

 

[johnnyfiive]

Hopefully you installed the media player patch (the critical oh shit one) before building your library?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961367

 

[ChaoticAtmosphere]

Wow, after having a few random lockups in Vista during gameplay, and some stuttering. Windows 7 it is completely gone. I just launched my Steam games from the Vista partition, and they are all there, and only required minor updates, the Cinematic mods are all there.



I tried the new ATI drivers, but they gave me a lined white screen, and then the system hard locked, so i reinstalled the Windows 7 drivers from update, and no issues. The card still supposedly fails even at stock settings in overdrive, however I just played 30 minutes of cinemod HL at 750 core, and it was stable, no missing textures or other issues. So I suspect that the ATI overdrive test isn't ready for Windows 7 yet.


If you read most of the connect documentation of the WAIK, and other software to use with this, it is just a mopped up Vista with more of the stuff they orginally promised us in Vista. If they don't release a Windows 7 from Vista upgrade that only costs $50 US there will be alot of people going on the "high seas" to get a copy.

Hey Steevo, I think I did post this earlier in this thread but there is working catalyst driver software that has been developed by ATI for windows 7 and I have successfully installed and am using it including ATI overdrive for oc'ing the GPU. You can get it here:

http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&questionID=39069

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

Anyone having sharing issues with Win7? I cant seem to properly share folders on my server hdd and access them on other computers. Says I dont have the rights to access it and to contact my system administrator. Im not sure if its a bug or im just incompetent.

 

[Mussels]

Anyone having sharing issues with Win7? I cant seem to properly share folders on my server hdd and access them on other computers. Says I dont have the rights to access it and to contact my system administrator. Im not sure if its a bug or im just incompetent.

go to advanced sharing settings, and look for one to do with 'allow homegroup to control shares' and turn it off.

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

Ive done that and it still doesnt work the way I wanted it too. However, I did manage to get folders from the 300GB hard drive to share over the network by placing the folders I wanted in the public documents folder on the server and then use map network drive on the other computers to connect to that folder on teh server. But there is a problem with that. I can only copy the folders from the server backup drive to the servers C: drive. This takes up space. It will not allow me to create a shortcut to the folder on the D: drive which is where all teh folders reside. When I try that, it takes me to my D: drive on my desktop machine.

 

[2wicked]

Win7 seems to be as sensitive as xp first was with hardware and activation, removed some ram and it asked to reactivate same when I added it back.
Hopefully the release version wont be as sensitive.

 

[MAGMADIVER]

I have a simple question....when W7 expires on August 1st does that mean the OS will quit booting or it will simply be locked out of any new updates?

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

I have a simple question....when W7 expires on August 1st does that mean the OS will quit booting or it will simply be locked out of any new updates?

It will probably prompt you to call microsoft to try and reactivate. But since its a beta they wont. By then, Id assume the RC's would be out so it would be an updated OS with a new batch of keys anyway.

 

[Edito]

after fixing the sound issue... im having another issue with 7 lol its like this every time i install a game or a bg program like Photoshop the OS uses all my ram ill post the screenshot

i was only instaling UT3 when i took it and belive me was hard to take the screenshots lol

Does anyone know how to fix this issue???

Thanks...

 

[ChaoticAtmosphere]

after fixing the sound issue... im having another issue with 7 lol its like this every time i install a game or a bg program like Photoshop the OS uses all my ram ill post the screenshot

i was only instaling UT3 when i took it and belive me was hard to take the screenshots lol

Does anyone know how to fix this issue???

Thanks...

That's crazy dude! I even want to know what's causing that! I have UT3 installed and never had anything close to what your experiencing. Did you take those screenies while it was installing or was your rig idle after install??

EDIT: And if you add up your memory, it doesn't make sense. I'd say damaged modules or something, not Windows 7. Reboot and run a memtest.

 

[Edito]

yeah its frustrating man but ill keep searching i think its related to the hard drives... ill try installing a game from a different HDD and see if the issue will remain...

 

[ChaoticAtmosphere]

yeah its frustrating man but ill keep searching i think its related to the hard drives... ill try installing a game from a different HDD and see if the issue will remain...

Cool, post your findings.

 

[LiveOrDie]

lol UT3 always died in the load up for me just like fear 2 mp just didnt like it all, and when W7 expires it will lock you out of every thing updates, system setting only thing u can do is access your files and the net.

 

[LiveOrDie]

people using the build 7000 should download build 7048 most of the bugs are fixed you know can close explorer, media player runs alot better, IE8 RC still has a few bugs

 

[pantherx12]

Will the keys I'm using at the moment work?

or will I *cough* have to do "without".

 

[LiveOrDie]

Will the keys I'm using at the moment work?

or will I *cough* have to do "without".

yes i used a beta key from build 7000 worked fine

 

[pantherx12]

Thank you, one more thing, will the " upgrade" feature work?

Thanks again.

 

[LiveOrDie]

people have told me it works updating from build 7000 to 7048 they just ran the setup.exe in windows and did it that way.

 

[pantherx12]

Thank you sah.

Downloading now.

 

[LiveOrDie]

i found a small problem with build 7048 DNS client has stopped working from installing Hamachi any one came across this yet?

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

For those of you who use LogMeIn and cant get it to work with Windows 7 and Firefox, do the following:

1. Use this link and download and save the zip file: https://secure.logmein.com/logmein.zip

2. Unzip the contents to a folder. In this case we're going to extract it to a folder called "logmein" on the desktop.

3. Go to Start->All Programs->Accessories, right-click on Command Prompt and select "Run as Administrator."

4. Once open, type "cd\users\<user name>\desktop\logmein\x86" and press enter. (notes: do not put the quotes in when using this command. if running 64-bit Windows change the 'x86' to 'x64')

5. Type "logemein install" and press enter.

6. The installer will run and you should then see the tray icon when it's finished. Right click on the icon and select 'Open LogMeIn...'

7. Firefox will open and you'll get an error box. Just click ok.

8. Copy and paste this address into the address bar:

https://127.0.0.1:2002/

9. Click through if you get a popup warning you about a certificate. On the page itself you will see something to allow an exception. Click on that and then click 'Get certificate' in the next box. Again you will probably get another warning but just click add anyway.

10. You should see the familiar LogMeIn screen. Just put in your computer user credentials and then you will be asked for your LogMeIn credentials and you should be all set after that.

Found this here. Decided to copy/paste it for easier reference.