Windows 8 who's buying/upgrading

hyperst said:
Ah, so dual screen setups are not really working out too great at the minute, sounds a little confusing, could be good if metro was on one screen and a normal desktop area on the other, but if that is not the case then well, as you say guys above it could do with MS doing something about it.
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That's too harsh.

I said that the detection points for centre screens could do with some work to make it better.

I've already said you can have Metro Apps on one screen and a normal desktop on the other. And you can easily move the Metro Apps between screens with Winkey+PGUP or PGDN.
 
ChileanLlama said:
Want to give a bit more detail? I'm on 4 screens and it's working okayish. The hotspot corners work on every screen independently. If you open the Start Screen with a mouse it opens on the screen you do it on. If you use the Winkey it opens the Start Screen on the last monitor you opened it on.

The only reason for saying okayish is that the hotspot detection points are difficult to hit accurately if it's say the middle monitor. Often I get the Start Screen icon on the middle screen, and at the same time the Charm on the left hand screen!

It'd be much nicer if there was some option to snap to or change the detection areas when you can't just chuck your mouse into a corner.
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This is it. My middle monitor is my main one and it's just terrible. Also, each time i reboot for some reason it shifts my main screen to the left most one... in landscape when in fact it's portrait.... :mad:


I tell you what. This isn't being implemented at work, it'll be a nightmare with our users...
 
Rossi~ said:
This is it. My middle monitor is my main one and it's just terrible. Also, each time i reboot for some reason it shifts my main screen to the left most one... in landscape when in fact it's portrait.... :mad:


I tell you what. This isn't being implemented at work, it'll be a nightmare with our users...
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I wouldn't expect many businesses to be implementing this and still some time before any really start any evaluation of it either.

It's things like this that show Metro is a 1.0 product. It needs some polish. I use the Winkey more, but my config is 3+1 above, it works fine on the 1 above monitor as the corners are corners! Not much help I know.

I've not seen the orientation change happen before, what card/drivers are you using?
 
ChileanLlama said:
I wouldn't expect many businesses to be implementing this and still some time before any really start any evaluation of it either.

It's things like this that show Metro is a 1.0 product. It needs some polish. I use the Winkey more, but my config is 3+1 above, it works fine on the 1 above monitor as the corners are corners! Not much help I know.

I've not seen the orientation change happen before, what card/drivers are you using?
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I've got a GTX580 + GT520. Running the latest drivers from nVidia site (forget which, not at home right now). I think it has an issue with the way they're setup.
I have it like so:
Left Screen Portrait - GT520 DVI
Middle Screen Landscape - GTX580 DVI
Right Screen Portrait - GT520 HDMI

I'm getting a 7970 soon so will hopefully have a better experience.
 
hyperst said:
Well I wouldn't say that was a good reason, Asus AI suite is buggy in any OS, even 7, I'm sure Asus would have fixed it at sometime.
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I had no issues using windows 7 and Asus suite and also on the download page
For Asus p8z77 premium under Windows 8 64bit there is not drivers for usb 3.0
But they have included usb 3.0 boost in there Ai suite hopefully once win8 is released it will
Be fixed
 
Rossi~ said:
I've got a GTX580 + GT520. Running the latest drivers from nVidia site (forget which, not at home right now). I think it has an issue with the way they're setup.
I have it like so:
Left Screen Portrait - GT520 DVI
Middle Screen Landscape - GTX580 DVI
Right Screen Portrait - GT520 HDMI

I'm getting a 7970 soon so will hopefully have a better experience.
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Check the latest drivers, it might cure it, but I've 680's and though I'm not having the problems you are, there are some problems with Surround, particularly when switching modes.

I've a 580 in another machine, but only 2 monitors on that and not seeing the issue you're getting. Don't have a 520 to add to it or I could try the same thing :(
 
I will definitely give the final version a try in a vm and see if i can disable metro and add a start menu and customize it to the point where it is usable. If not then ill stick with windows 7 and maybe go back to it at sp1 or if i see any developments in terms of tweaks. :D

But i do like trying new windows OS and i am bit a disappointed about win 8 in general.
 
Pre-order by October 24th and get free shipping.

Thing is I can't get beyond the stage that leads to the payment stage reading:
"Two more steps to go
(Your card will not be charged yet)"

Pressing Next just refreshes the page.

It works fine if I'm trying to purchase another product however.
 
groen said:
I will definitely give the final version a try in a vm and see if i can disable metro and add a start menu and customize it to the point where it is usable. If not then ill stick with windows 7 and maybe go back to it at sp1 or if i see any developments in terms of tweaks. :D

But i do like trying new windows OS and i am bit a disappointed about win 8 in general.
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If you want to go to those lengths to disable new features, and given all your negative criticism towards Windows 8, what are you exactly hoping to gain from Windows 8?

Wouldn't you just be better off staying on Windows 7?
 
ChileanLlama said:
If you want to go to those lengths to disable new features, and given all your negative criticism towards Windows 8, what are you exactly hoping to gain from Windows 8?

Wouldn't you just be better off staying on Windows 7?
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I like to use the latest OS and apparently it is faster and more stable and it has a few new features that i would use like task manager and explorer toolbar. It would also be a nice challenge to see if i can make it usable :D

why do i want to use it, cause i am geek, ok. It also my job, i need to stay in with latest stuff.
 
groen said:
I like to use the latest OS and apparently it is faster and more stable and it has a few new features that i would use like task manager and explorer toolbar. It would also be a nice challenge to see if i can make it usable :D

why do i want to use it, cause i am geek, ok. It also my job, i need to stay in with latest stuff.
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I'd say the improvements you've mentioned aren't that significant enough on their own.

For your job though, how are you staying in with the latest stuff though if you find ways to remove most of it? Does your company allow serious tweaks and modifications to be made to the OS and support that? :eek:
 
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