Official Windows 7 Beta/RC/Pre-RTM Discussion

[Warboy]

Well, Now that it's official. I can make this thread. share your thoughts, Ideas, anything you have to about windows 7, just don't try to break the forum rules or make a argument.

[Soulburner]

What was wrong with the other thread?

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=212640

[Warboy]

What was wrong with the other thread?

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=212640

Because it was based on When Beta 1 leaked, This thread is about the official launch of beta 1.

[N19h7m4r3]

I must say I love it!

Works great, fast reliable. No driver problems yet.

I even like the new taskbar

[Xanadu]

I'm having problems with it. Programs open in the background, instead of the fore-, some programs won't open at all once installed, I can't open my hard drives...Other than that, it's pretty good.

[Sailindawg]

MS just put their beta download servers back up. I started downloading the official beta, complete with product key, about 15 minutes ago.

[Jamesrt2004]

whats the "official" way to get this? i beta'd private and public Vista but cant remeber how/what to do or what i did

[cmay119]

Hi all, I've just downloaded the 64-bit version of Windows 7 Beta. I haven't pulled the trigger yet on installing it, because I want to get some hardware issues taken care of first. My wireless NIC only has drivers for Windows XP (It's an older 802.11g NIC, I've got a new 802.11n router recently so I'll be purchasing a newer draft N adapter soon). I'm also wondering how I can install this on a RAID-0 Array? What's everyone's experience with that? I've never been through the install process of any Windows later than XP. So will I need a floppy drive to be able to install RAID drivers? Or have they improved to looking at other locations besides the A: drive?

I'm really interested in playing with this OS, but I'm not going to dig myself into a hole without consulting others who've installed this first.

Thanks for your time, all.

[dan7777]

Hi all, I've just downloaded the 64-bit version of Windows 7 Beta. I haven't pulled the trigger yet on installing it, because I want to get some hardware issues taken care of first. My wireless NIC only has drivers for Windows XP (It's an older 802.11g NIC, I've got a new 802.11n router recently so I'll be purchasing a newer draft N adapter soon). I'm also wondering how I can install this on a RAID-0 Array? What's everyone's experience with that? I've never been through the install process of any Windows later than XP. So will I need a floppy drive to be able to install RAID drivers? Or have they improved to looking at other locations besides the A: drive?

I'm really interested in playing with this OS, but I'm not going to dig myself into a hole without consulting others who've installed this first.

Thanks for your time, all.

im useing this os with no problems at all much faster and liter than vista always turn off UAC tho pain in the ass. good luck

[Budwise]

so far its great. I may stop dual booting it and just use it as my main OS soon.

[Warboy]

whats the "official" way to get this? i beta'd private and public Vista but cant remeber how/what to do or what i did

Google Windows 7 Beta 1. It Will pop right up, well atleast should.

Heres a link

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/e.../dd353205.aspx

[Kashii]

Has anyone had any issues with the atikmdag.sys error on the magical 7? Been going crazy about it on Vista, and I'm praying that it got solved on 7 (<=> ATI).

[Jamesrt2004]

i havn't had it

[shanems3]

running 2 ati 4850 1gb asus cards , no bsod what so ever, no glitches... runs flawless...

[shanems3]

Hi all, I've just downloaded the 64-bit version of Windows 7 Beta. I haven't pulled the trigger yet on installing it, because I want to get some hardware issues taken care of first. My wireless NIC only has drivers for Windows XP (It's an older 802.11g NIC, I've got a new 802.11n router recently so I'll be purchasing a newer draft N adapter soon). I'm also wondering how I can install this on a RAID-0 Array? What's everyone's experience with that? I've never been through the install process of any Windows later than XP. So will I need a floppy drive to be able to install RAID drivers? Or have they improved to looking at other locations besides the A: drive?

I'm really interested in playing with this OS, but I'm not going to dig myself into a hole without consulting others who've installed this first.

Thanks for your time, all.

mine is on a raid 0, works like a champ..

[5-Clicks]

Anyone have any ideas how to get the Creative X-Fi drivers up? I tried the latest Vista drivers but it doesn't fly. I have the Soundblaster X-Fi Elite Pro, btw.

[HDCHOPPER]

signed up (4 ppl in da house) got 3 set's of keys & my dvd wont burn a dvd iso image thats saved
need a dual layer disc also it says

time for a new dvd rw light scribe

[Pyr0]

have you tried:
http://forums.creative.com/creativel...read.id=135215

[5-Clicks]

Actually, I just got it to work by saving the latest Vista driver to my desktop then simply running the setup file in compatibility mode for Vista. Works like a charm. I'm really liking Windows 7 so far... Nice and quick.

[slim142]

So far I have the .iso in my desktop

I havent tried it yet, I dont have time but I would really like to try it cause of this talk about it been faster than vista and even XP.

[Sparky]

Dumb question - think it would run ok on my laptop? P-M 1,7GHz 768MB RAM 60GB HD and some intel integrated graphics.

I wouldn't dare try vista on it, so I run XP, but XP feels so old now

[Sailindawg]

Anyone have any ideas how to get the Creative X-Fi drivers up? I tried the latest Vista drivers but it doesn't fly. I have the Soundblaster X-Fi Elite Pro, btw.

I'm running Win 7 64 bit. My soundcard is X-Fi Xtreme Music. I downloaded the most recent (jan 2009) drivers for Vista 64 bit, the most recent console launcher and the most recent version of ALChemy. I installed all under Vista compatibility mode because I got the "OS not supported" message otherwise.

I'm running 4.1 sound. Until I set my speakers to 4.1 in the Windows sound applet, I did not get sound from all speakers, regardless of Creative console settings. Once I got it right in windows, creative console saw all 4 speakers.

ALchemy seems to hang CODWAW when shutting down COD. I found that once I set my Entertainment mode to 4.1, I began to get all 4 speakers in COD working without running ALChemy. I removed COD from the selection list in ALChemy and made sure that the DSxxx files were not in the COD folder. I was glad to see all 4 speakers working without ALChemy.

Movies and MP3's play and sound fine using Creative's entertainment mode. The EAX selection for music works as well.

So far, I'm pretty impressed with 7. I've never used VISTA. Home networking, file transfers and gaming has worked real well so far. Regarding gaming, graphics look more vibrant in 7 than XP and I get higher min frames in 7 than XP. At this point, there seems to be no loss in gaming performance going from XP to 7. I really like the much snappier feel that 7 has.

Edit:

It seems for gaming that if you want surround sound, set creative console to entertainment mode. I'm having a bit of a time of with ALchemy. World in Conflict will play in surround sound in entertainment mode, but not in gaming mode with Alchemy. Same with CODWAW single player. ALChemy seems to work with CODWAW MP.

[Warboy]

Dumb question - think it would run ok on my laptop? P-M 1,7GHz 768MB RAM 60GB HD and some intel integrated graphics.

I wouldn't dare try vista on it, so I run XP, but XP feels so old now

Should run okayish.

[RealTelstar]

Well, i fixed the driver problems, so i can say that from hardware point of view, its ok now.

About speed, i dont feel it is to be faster than vista sp2 (both x64), but vista is installed on a scsi raid, while w7 is on a samsung f1.

About interface, i do NOT like the taskbar. fixed icons confuse with minimized apps, there is no show desktop button. Other things are improved, such as paint, uac (usable at min level not disabled), color correction, libraries.

[Jamesrt2004]

there is a show desktop button ... very bottom right corner of task bar you'll see its kind of like a block after the time


hover over it and youll see it say's show desktop