Windows 8 Consumer Preview Thread

Glaucus · 1 Mar 2012 at 13:21

Subliminal Aura said:
BTW Whilst I'm here ... I take it that you still can't get flash running on the embedded metro browser although html5 works
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nope and it won't be added either, not to IE anyway. ms have allready said metro won't support flash.

However I can't see any reason why Firefox or other webrowser can't use it, once they develop metro apps.

It's the final nail in flashes coffin (along with wp7) that apple started.

Cyber-Mav · 1 Mar 2012 at 13:21

this is a very quick os, once you disable the metro ui its similar to windows 7 in appearance. im trying out some games but so far the memory usage of the os is a fair bit lower than win7.

Murray · 1 Mar 2012 at 13:24

Cyber-Mav said:
this is a very quick os, once you disable the metro ui its similar to windows 7 in appearance. im trying out some games but so far the memory usage of the os is a fair bit lower than win7.

And you did this how?

Subliminal Aura · 1 Mar 2012 at 13:26

Glaucus said:
nope and it won't be added either, not to IE anyway. ms have allready said metro won't support flash.

However I can't see any reason why Firefox or other webrowser can't use it, once they develop metro apps.

It's the final nail in flashes coffin (along with wp7) that apple started.

Now the battle for youtube and WebM see my edit

Cyber-Mav said:
this is a very quick os, once you disable the metro ui its similar to windows 7 in appearance. im trying out some games but so far the memory usage of the os is a fair bit lower than win7.

Damn right... I don't understand the negativity here especially for the guys here who customise windows.

Disable metro. Install ultramon / rocketdock and you've got one hella slick OS

The only gripe I've got so far is that metro is in fairly harsh on the GPU. GPU load and memory usage is a bit too high for my poorly 8400gs

anything I don't mind · 1 Mar 2012 at 13:26

Has anyone tried games ? Now i mean real games not some lame html 5 pinpall app which process you can't kill.

I was pretty disappointed that quake live didn't work and as well as old applications conning up with errors.

I think with windows 8 they are expecting people to forget 10-15 years of applications and functionality and start pushing blocks around. Who thinks of this ****?

Murray · 1 Mar 2012 at 13:28

groen said:
Has anyone tried games ? Now i mean real games not some lame html 5 pinpall app which process you can't kill.

I was pretty disappointed that quake live didn't work and as well as old applications conning up with errors.

I think with windows 8 they are expecting people to forget 10-15 years of applications and functionality and start pushing blocks around. Who thinks of this ****?

All of my games work.

anything I don't mind · 1 Mar 2012 at 13:29

Are on nvidia or ati ? did you install drivers or use the default ones ?

marc2003 · 1 Mar 2012 at 13:29

groen said:
Has anyone tried games ? Now i mean real games not some lame html 5 pinpall app which process you can't kill.

a) you can kill metro apps by hovering in the top left to bring up the switcher. then right click on which app you want>close

b) i've tried portal2 and crysis warhead and they both ran fine.

Glaucus · 1 Mar 2012 at 13:32

Subliminal Aura said:
Now the battle for youtube and WebM see my edit

YouTube works without flash, or at least most of it.
WebM?

Subliminal Aura · 1 Mar 2012 at 13:34

Glaucus said:
YouTube works without flash, or at least most of it.
WebM?

WebM is the reason why IE fails

http://www.youtube.com/html5

Cyber-Mav · 1 Mar 2012 at 13:34

Murray said:
And you did this how?

i used a method called "registry editing"

but for someone as clueless as you id suggest you stay away from the registry or you will bork your install. leave the pros to do it. :rolleyes:

Murray · 1 Mar 2012 at 13:36

Checked that the "RPEnabled" file wasn't there.

Subliminal Aura · 1 Mar 2012 at 13:37

Wooo Hooo flash working

****** ace ... Leave the HTML5 trial using the standalone IE browser and lo and behold flash is working in metro

Glaucus · 1 Mar 2012 at 13:38

Subliminal Aura said:
WebM is the reason why IE fails

http://www.youtube.com/html5

So YouTube need to add ie10 to the list? Or MS needs to add something to Ie?

anything I don't mind · 1 Mar 2012 at 13:39

Has anyone with an ati graphics card managed to get games working in windows 8? did you use default drivers or ati drivers?

Subliminal Aura · 1 Mar 2012 at 13:40

Glaucus said:
So YouTube need to add ie10 to the list? Or MS needs to add something to Ie?

Hold that thought for a second.

This is crazy ... some videos work(even html5) some don't. I'm not to waste much more time on it until I fully understand what is going on

wildest_jjk · 1 Mar 2012 at 13:52

I don't get it, I am following this to disable metro UI:

http://www.ghacks.net/2011/09/15/windows-8-start-menu-toggle-disable-enable-metro-ui/

But for some reason I cannot get it to work. I have no idea what I am doing and there is probably an easier way of doing it. I just wanted to try disabling metro and seeing what it was like with the start menu on the desktop! Anybody know how to do this?

Thanks

SeeKified · 1 Mar 2012 at 13:58

I find it pretty weird to be honest. How do you switch it off? :O I'm running it as a vbox so I can just "pull the plug" but I'm interested in knowing where the shutdown button is in the actual OS. :eek:

Cosimo · 1 Mar 2012 at 14:10

Got it loaded and looking good. Now getting 8 windows updates.

Murray · 1 Mar 2012 at 14:10

SeeKified said:
I find it pretty weird to be honest. How do you switch it off? :O I'm running it as a vbox so I can just "pull the plug" but I'm interested in knowing where the shutdown button is in the actual OS.

move the mouse to the top right and move down or bottom right and move up and click settings then power or you can press Win+C