Windows 8 Release Preview

**AliG** · 06-16-2012, 06:06 AM

Originally Posted by paulbagz

Nah try Windows+TAB on W7

-PB

The windows shuffle is actually kinda nifty. I don't use it as much as I thought I would, but I do think it's a cool feature

**rintamarotta** · 06-16-2012, 06:03 PM

Can someone confirm that disabling C-States hangs disappeared? For me all hangs disappeared but i also did alot of other stuff so im not shure if C-States fixed it.

**andressergio** · 06-16-2012, 06:33 PM

Originally Posted by rintamarotta

Can someone confirm that disabling C-States hangs disappeared? For me all hangs disappeared but i also did alot of other stuff so im not shure if C-States fixed it.

i dont use C states and the beotch locked 3 times and destroyed my HDD RAID0---

not even W7 BETA locked or BSOD this seems really odd

**rintamarotta** · 06-16-2012, 09:27 PM

Crap. Something is really wrong with Windows 8 RP then or some of the drivers are crappy and unstable.

**Kai Robinson** · 06-17-2012, 12:50 PM

Is it going to be possible to disable Metro come the actual release? If not, i refuse to upgrade. I can't bear the metro interface, it looks crap.

**Starscream** · 06-17-2012, 12:54 PM

Originally Posted by Kai Robinson

Is it going to be possible to disable Metro come the actual release? If not, i refuse to upgrade. I can't bear the metro interface, it looks crap.

I doubt it.
Atm in the RP people are using tools to get the Start button back but it is already known that MS wil remove the code for it completely.

They really seem to want us to use Win8 as is.

**Kai Robinson** · 06-17-2012, 12:59 PM

Well then, MS isn't going to see another penny from me. Screw that. I'll stick with Windows 7 for as long as i can.

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**andressergio** · 06-17-2012, 03:27 PM

Originally Posted by rintamarotta

Crap. Something is really wrong with Windows 8 RP then or some of the drivers are crappy and unstable.

agree 300% percent

**paulbagz** · 06-17-2012, 09:30 PM

Originally Posted by Kai Robinson

Well then, MS isn't going to see another penny from me. Screw that. I'll stick with Windows 7 for as long as i can.

Don't think Microsoft saw many pennies from people in regards to Win7 :P

-PB

**N19h7m4r3** · 06-18-2012, 02:05 AM

Originally Posted by Kai Robinson

Well then, MS isn't going to see another penny from me. Screw that. I'll stick with Windows 7 for as long as i can.

Same here, I won't bother with 8 then. Everything I've seen or heard of it is rubbish so far. The driver issues..ugh.

**SEA** · 06-18-2012, 05:50 PM

Originally Posted by N19h7m4r3

Same here, I won't bother with 8 then. Everything I've seen or heard of it is rubbish so far. The driver issues..ugh.

NVidia will fix their driver eventually... OTOH you can use AMD video card - good drivers

I'm on the Win8 since end of February, so I wonder what kind of rubbish is there? I;m aware only on positive moments... As of metro - I'm not visiting it at all unless I need it...

**gumballguy** · 06-18-2012, 10:11 PM

Originally Posted by Generic user #2

i like how people that believe in the on-off always forget w2k

This was the best OS microsoft ever did.

It was lean and mean. They started adding useless junk with XP.

**N19h7m4r3** · 06-19-2012, 08:51 AM

Originally Posted by SEA

NVidia will fix their driver eventually... OTOH you can use AMD video card - good drivers

That's a relative opinion which is always argued to death.

I've owned both brands and had driver issues with both.

**rintamarotta** · 06-19-2012, 09:05 AM

Originally Posted by SEA

NVidia will fix their driver eventually... OTOH you can use AMD video card - good drivers

I'm on the Win8 since end of February, so I wonder what kind of rubbish is there? I;m aware only on positive moments... As of metro - I'm not visiting it at all unless I need it...

Its due you have AMD Machine (AMD CPU and ATI GPU), AMD drivers actually work
Majority of the problems are related to Intel and nVidia drivers.

EDIT :
Its now confirmed that its Intel SandyBridge, SandyBridge-E and IvyBridge problem, intel released new microcode that fixed bug in microcode that caused problems with some of intel cpu's and Windows 8 RP.
It did not completly fix the problem but mostly did.
Asus released bios update 13th of June for MIVE-Z that might include this new Microcode but didnt do so for MIVE :/

**andressergio** · 06-20-2012, 09:05 AM

Guys who else has lockups even whit latest drivers and when you have raid0 and you go back to win7 it starts scanning the HDD and leads to corruption at last ???

**bamtan2** · 06-20-2012, 12:52 PM

Originally Posted by gumballguy

This was the best OS microsoft ever did.

It was lean and mean. They started adding useless junk with XP.

this is it. windows 2000 was the pinnacle of windows

**andressergio** · 06-20-2012, 01:03 PM

guys i posted this poll

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...do-u-have-them

i know i was mistaken on the section and already asked admin to move it but please vot

i know lots of you has locks and crashes

cheers
Sergio

**Syn.** · 06-20-2012, 01:56 PM

Originally Posted by Kai Robinson

Is it going to be possible to disable Metro come the actual release? If not, i refuse to upgrade. I can't bear the metro interface, it looks crap.

Seeing as you are not capable from distinguishing the difference between a Start Screen and a UI design i will just have to block you. Seems like i just cant bear your pointless opinion. It makes XS a little less.... XS

**NEOAethyr** · 06-21-2012, 08:29 AM

Originally Posted by Syn.

Seeing as you are not capable from distinguishing the difference between a Start Screen and a UI design i will just have to block you. Seems like i just cant bear your pointless opinion. It makes XS a little less.... XS

What are you going on about ???
...

I still haven't had the chance to install this yet.
I see several of you guys are saying it's fast, but to be honest, I don't believe that, I'll have to install it myself I guess.

All I care is if it's on par with win7's speed/latency and bandwith.
I'm in need of it though, this start killer prog in win7 keeps crashing explorer since sp1 came out, in win8 I don't need it since it no longer has a start button that I need to get rid of.
Also need the usb stack updated from win7 sp1...

Edit;
Oh I just remembered, I never checked to see if the photoviewer vga-mem-corruption? bug was still happening.

**rintamarotta** · 06-22-2012, 12:50 AM

Ill run some benchmarks vs windows 7 in my i7 2600k test rig, will report here in few hours.

**Mats** · 06-22-2012, 05:20 AM

Originally Posted by NEOAethyr

All I care is if it's on par with win7's speed/latency and bandwith.

Just curious, did W7 beta or RC have high latency as well?

**rintamarotta** · 06-22-2012, 06:14 AM

Ok here is Zip file that includes PNG files of Win7 and Win8RP runs with PassMark and Cinebench, Aida64 and many other applications crashed Win8 installation so no results from them.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/47727912/Win...Benchmarks.zip

System used in benchmarks :
- Intel i7 2600k @ 4.9Ghz
- 16Gb DDR3-2133 CL11
- Corsair Force GT 120Gb SSD (Win8)
- Kingston HyperX 120Gb SSD (Win7)
- GTX570 @ 800Mhz-GPU / 2000Mhz-Mem

**[XC] Oj101** · 06-22-2012, 06:32 AM

Originally Posted by Generic user #2

i like how people that believe in the on-off always forget w2k

Still my favourite but too dated to use these days. I think it's excluded as it was an NT based OS which ran side-by-side to a 9x based home user OS.

**Mats** · 06-22-2012, 06:49 AM

On the other hand, how great was W2000 RTM out of the box? Or XP? IIRC, both needed some SP's to get mature.

No desktop version of Windows comes close to W7 in that regard (not that it's perfect tho). SP1 was almost underwhelming because everyone was used to get a better OS from SP's, but that only tells us how great it was from the start.

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