Vista Beta 2 Goes Public Today

Bennehmaru · 11 Jun 2006 at 16:16

Right just installed beta 2 onto my pc but the resolution wont go above 1024x768 anyone know why?

csmager · 11 Jun 2006 at 16:17

Eva01 said:
Right just installed beta 2 onto my pc but the resolution wont go above 1024x768 anyone know why?

The obvious place to start would be Graphics Drivers... what card, what drivers atm?

FosterK · 11 Jun 2006 at 16:17

WDM driver, probably. Update your GPU driver.

Jimbo · 11 Jun 2006 at 16:30

Craig321 said:
I got 2 cd-keys as well when I signed up at the link I gave above.

I only got 1 key, but hey its a free os.

csmager · 11 Jun 2006 at 16:34

Jimbo said:
I only got 1 key, but hey its a free os.

But you can go through the signup process again and get another. You're allowed a maximum of 2.

Craig321 · 11 Jun 2006 at 16:43

Eva01 said:
Right just installed beta 2 onto my pc but the resolution wont go above 1024x768 anyone know why?

You'll need special Vista graphic drivers I think

Jimbo · 11 Jun 2006 at 16:50

Im downloading at 500k a sec + so I should have it in the next hour.. very excited.

Cooper · 11 Jun 2006 at 16:56

WAHEY!!!!....i have sound..

By ripping out my Audigy 2 and enabling my onboard AC97 5.1... :mad:

Stupid Microsoft/Creative....how the hell can THE most popular brand of Soundcards NOT work in Vista ffs, even if it is a Beta.

Poor...very poor

NathanE · 11 Jun 2006 at 16:57

Craig321 said:
I suppose they mean "measureable impact for the Internet" as in the ISP they're with will be slowed down quite a lot due to their super high bandwidth use?

Na they do mean the Internet as a whole... most ISPs and backbones operate close to their maximum capacity and if Microsoft added more bandwidth to their Vista B2 download servers those backbones could be pushed over the edge and that's when all hell breaks loose.

Kerplunk · 11 Jun 2006 at 17:25

Does anyone know of a way I can allow my XP install to boot first instead of my Vista ?

I have XP installed on one HDD and Vista installed on another HDD, XP used to boot as you would expect before Vista came on, now ive installed Vista on another HDD this new "Windows Boot Manager" comes up with options

"Previous OS"
"Microsoft Windows" <vista>

And it will always default to Vista

How can I allow it to auto boot XP/Previous OS ?

Thanks

Blackhorse · 11 Jun 2006 at 17:27

csmager said:
But you can go through the signup process again and get another. You're allowed a maximum of 2.

It said on the email i got the key would work for up to a max of 10 comps

csmager · 11 Jun 2006 at 17:28

Kerplunk said:
How can I allow it to auto boot XP or Previous OS ?

The same way as in XP. Go to the 'System' control panel, click 'Advanced System Settings'. Click 'Settings' next to Startup and Recovery, and chose your OS and timeout settings.

csmager · 11 Jun 2006 at 17:28

Blackhorse said:
It said on the email i got the key would work for up to a max of 10 comps

And it will. You're allowed a maximum of 2 keys though.

Beansprout · 11 Jun 2006 at 17:29

NathanE said:
Na they do mean the Internet as a whole... most ISPs and backbones operate close to their maximum capacity and if Microsoft added more bandwidth to their Vista B2 download servers those backbones could be pushed over the edge and that's when all hell breaks loose.

Aye - MS use Akamai who serve right at the ISP level, so that could be lots of fun...the world's top PC company releasing 4Gb downloads :eek:

Kerplunk · 11 Jun 2006 at 17:31

csmager said:
The same way as in XP. Go to the 'System' control panel, click 'Advanced System Settings'. Click 'Settings' next to Startup and Recovery, and chose your OS and timeout settings.

Thanks for that, appreciated.

lokkers · 11 Jun 2006 at 17:36

Craig321 said:
Oh also, Lokkers, I wouldn't try again if I was you, waste of time. Between us it's been tried on 3 different computers, 2 completley different areas and internet connection, and 6 different download managers. Craig.

Yeah I'm going to see if anyone at work has managed to get it. if not, i'll try again in a couple of weeks, or order the DVD

FreeStream · 11 Jun 2006 at 17:40

Anyone with the x64 download confirm its 8gb+?

WTF, why? How can a system be so bloated, thats 10% of my raptor gone and a 8Gb i-ram completely useless.

Mac OS X is only 2Gb at install :/

XP is only 600mb.

Can people search vista for files and see which are the biggest? And what happens if you delete them?

Conc

Slam62 · 11 Jun 2006 at 17:46

mine was 4.01gb but takes up a lot of space when installed, they werent joking when they said 15gb disk space.

Anyway most of my hardware hasnt got drivers for vist x64

csmager · 11 Jun 2006 at 17:53

Concorde Rules said:
Anyone with the x64 download confirm its 8gb+?

WTF, why? How can a system be so bloated, thats 10% of my raptor gone and a 8Gb i-ram completely useless.

It isn't finished yet, for starters. But for your information, the vast proportion of space is taken up by C:\windows\system32\drivers (~2.4Gb in x86, much more in x64, I suspect), and another ~3Gb in C:\windows\winsxs - containing just about every MS dll.

MS have a 4.7Gb DVD they're able to fill, so they're going to give you as much as they can in terms of drivers and the like - something they couldn't do when limited to a CD. Hard disc space is cheap, and needing 15Gb is hardly a huge amount. The next step is to use Hybrid Hard Discs, no something quite so volatile as the i-Drive. Hybrids marry flash memory and existing disc technology to allow much greater speeds.

FUNTY · 11 Jun 2006 at 18:21

nice

Got it installed stuck it on an old HD, took about 40 minutes. Like the look of it so far, runs sweet on my system, updated all the drivers fine - no problems as yet but haven't run any games. Really do like the tab options on IE7.

Going to have a look now for an Antivirus and then give office 07 Beta a try. Ill burn up EQ2, CSS and Fear and see how they run later.
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