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Vista Beta 2 Public Today!

Doomulation

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Aye, we'll see how it turns out... it's installing fine yet.
Anyone has MD5 of the ISO and can recommend any software just to see if there is an error?
 

Miretank

Lurking
Doomulation said:
The DVD cost printing and shipping. To my knowledge, they ship worldwide. I could check, though.
Hexidecimal said:
You can get a copy mailed to you, and when RC1 comes out they send that too, i believe they ship outside the US as well.

Don't think it'll cost cheap for me though. :(
 

Doomulation

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Aww, why the sad face? It isn't that expensive. I'd check, but I can't be arsed since it requires IE :p
But why don't you look for yourself, instead of speculating?
 
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Falcon4ever

Falcon4ever

Plugin coder / Betatester
Ok I just installed Vista on my desktop (i won't bother my laptop :p):
AMD AthlonXP 2700+
512 DDR RAM
20 GB (5400rpm)/ 120 GB(7200rpm)
Ati Radeon 9600 PRO.

First impression, it looks great and it runs like poo.
So first thing i did was downloading the gfx drivers from ati.com, installing it took quite some time, but the system speed was a little bit quicker.

But still, it feels slow / bad responsive and playing a simple mpg video seems to need a lot of cputime.

Anyone which having this same kind of expirience?

(hmm :p XGL on linux worked even better an almost looked better ;P)
 
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Miretank

Lurking
Doom said:
But why don't you look for yourself, instead of speculating?
lazyness ftw :p but i'll check.

Falcon4ever said:
First impression, it looks great and it runs like poo.
So first thing i did was downloading the gfx drivers from ati.com, installing it took quite some time, but the system speed was a little bit quicker.

But still, it feels slow / bad responsive and playing a simple mpg video seems to need a lot of cputime.

Anyone which having this same kind of expirience?
I think it's normal, that happened to me on XP as well. On my firsts days with it.
 
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Falcon4ever

Falcon4ever

Plugin coder / Betatester
hmm strange, i couldn't get the games running.

In my case i heard some sounds but the play area stayed black... might be these ati drivers...
 

Hexidecimal

Emutalk Bounty Hunter.
Probably video driver support, i know the test rigs sites have been getting can play pretty well with the nvidia drivers though.
 

Doomulation

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Whew, I shouldn't fret. I'm running Vista now and so far it seems fine.
But this looks like XP v2.0. Where Aero?
 
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Falcon4ever

Falcon4ever

Plugin coder / Betatester
doom, you guys seem to run nvidia stuff ;p might explain it...

Aero, that's that glassy stuff you're looking at :p
 

Doomulation

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Falcon4ever said:
doom, you guys seem to run nvidia stuff ;p might explain it...
Yes, I own an nvidia card...

Aero, that's that glassy stuff you're looking at :p
Just looks like XP 2.0. Where's all the cool stuff like the 3d alt+tab thingy we saw on a trailer? There has to be more to it than this :/

Btw, anyone else having trouble activating Vista? It says my product key is already used, even though I recieved it from microsoft's via email. Weird.
 

TerraPhantm

New member
To use the 3d alt-tab use the windows key + tab.



I had no trouble activating Vista, I just clicked hte button and it worked.
 
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t0rek

Wilson's Friend
I'm telling a friend to download it for me since I'm on 56k. However I still won't check it out until july. I plan to install it in my main rig (no way I'm going to install it in a P4 1.6 Ghz 256 Mb PC133 Geforce2MX)
 

Toasty

Sony battery
Downloading as we speak. I was about to try out Fedora Core 5, but I'll put that on hold and use my free partition for this. Gotta put my new Athlon X2 4200+ to the test. :)
 

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