nevermind1331 Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 microsoft released a new build today. anyone have it, try it. its increased in size to 3 gigabytes. im trying to get it now. hopefully it fixes my install issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted April 23, 2006 Share Posted April 23, 2006 Did they release a public beta yet? The kind where I can go on the site and download it WITHOUT a MSDN membership? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moksha Posted April 23, 2006 Share Posted April 23, 2006 If I signed up for Xbox Live, does that mean I'm a MSDN member? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djmastera2000 Posted April 23, 2006 Share Posted April 23, 2006 Did they release a public beta yet? The kind where I can go on the site and download it WITHOUT a MSDN membership? Hmm, i don't think so...not yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysaor Posted April 23, 2006 Share Posted April 23, 2006 A while ago MS put build 5308 on a public server and anyone could download it, but of course you needed cd key. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nevermind1331 Posted April 23, 2006 Author Share Posted April 23, 2006 i should have it by midnight to test. will let you guys know how it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted April 23, 2006 Share Posted April 23, 2006 BTW, there's a torrent of it in the bay of pirates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nevermind1331 Posted April 23, 2006 Author Share Posted April 23, 2006 BTW, there's a torrent of it in the bay of pirates. of course there is..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moksha Posted April 23, 2006 Share Posted April 23, 2006 Yup, I downloaded it and it looks really cool! Oh wait, that's just Mac OS X.... The torrent has no seeders, anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysaor Posted April 23, 2006 Share Posted April 23, 2006 Thurrott got some screenies of 5365.. http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvi..._gallery_01.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gooly Posted April 23, 2006 Share Posted April 23, 2006 increasing the os file size wont help. let m$ increase the system stability. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirmanPika Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 increasing the os file size wont help. let m$ increase the system stability. Actually the main reason for the image size increases are the addition of more and more drivers. MS has been trying to add as many as possible to keep the transition as simple as possible (The XP release was a pain in the arse thanks to a lack of drivers). They have a DVD to work with so might as well add as many as possible. Also whats with all these new builds sneaking out without me knowing. I thought they were supposed e-mail testers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moksha Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 Might you be inclined to share yours via RapidShare or Filefront? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oxidize Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 I tried it a few days ago... Nogo for me, BSOD when booting from the DVD. Tried a couple things after: Installed XP, then did the inital install through XP. But when it rebooted for the 1st time same error BSOD on aspi.sys (something like that). Then (since build 5342 works perfect) I replaced the bootimage.wmi on the DVD (believe that is what it was, forget exactly off the top of my head) with the bootimage.wmi file from the 5342 build. Then re-created the DVD. Managed to boot from the DVD fine and install windows. Made it through all the steps but then the 1st time it tried to boot into Windows... BSOD... oh well. Anyone else have any luck? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digicide Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 yeah, works for me-- looks like no drivers for my sound card yet, though... i'm on a v2000z with ati southbridge chipset. btw, i've got the 64 bit version, so i haven't technically tried the same one as you. i guess i only get it for 2 weeks cause it needs activated, but i'm really liking it... they sure took a lot of cues from OSX... they've got they're expose competitor, the spotlight searching everywhere, even in the control panel... it's really cool, very pretty... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nevermind1331 Posted April 28, 2006 Author Share Posted April 28, 2006 dont worry about activation, it doesnt work yet. itll work past two weeks just fine. according to what i've read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curlyboy Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 is it possible to tell me were you read that m8 as id like to have a wee looky thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digicide Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 well vista is so nice, but i'm reverting back to xp... looks like the drivers for my v2000z aren't ready yet-- at least on 64 bit version. I'll try 32 bit first, but i can't have a system without sound... anybody with an x200m chipset confirm sound works/doesn't work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nevermind1331 Posted April 30, 2006 Author Share Posted April 30, 2006 i believe it was a forum called vista secrets or something. check it out, but they were positive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigboss Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 This is a BETA OS so its nowhere near a full release candidate. I've had some experience with the Vista BETAs and this is substantially faster than build 5308 but there are still many performance issues: 1) Explorer is VERY SLOW 2) SearchIndexer.exe doesnt respond 3) Windows Media Player full screen is still slow 4) Aero interface (even with a 6800GT) still lags 5) Frequent stalls/crashes 6) THE MOST IMPORTANT: THE USER PROTECTION SOFTWARE. It's a firewall which won't let you do anything without an Administrator's account and even when you have those privelleges, this stupid screen pops up everytime you want to run an executable and prevents you from doing anything until you have selected allow and deny (imagine doing that EVERY time you want to launch a service!) Obviously it is a beta OS and thus you cannot expect it to perform (nor do I) as a retail version would. I'm sure that by the release of the full Beta 2 (May 22nd), MS will have licked a lot of the bugs and have speeded up the OS in general. edit: It's also unrealistic for an Operating System with 50 (thats right, 50) million lines of code to run super fast EDIT: It turns out Vista was slow because my locale was set to something other than the US. When I changed all the settings to the default US settings, Vista speeded up dramatically and now the os is fairly fast. The only thing I am still complaining about is the laggyness of Aero glass but is a beta so I'm not expecting too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieR Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 i thought Vista wasn't EFI, so how come the latest beta has a EFI file? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldschool Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 I got a 64bit monster here. I can smell the rubber with osx. Same with w2k3-x64. Tried vista (64bit version). This os has disabled itself. VERY SLOOOOOW, OVERDOZE in any way and too many STOLEN things from apple. Vista is the worst os i have ever seen. No innovations, just a modified xp. After 2 hours the partition was erased. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curlyboy Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 Well i just installed the latest vista yesterday and i can say honestly its very nice yes maybe a fancy jazzed up up but very nice none the less and as for speed quite fast from erasing my partition to install must have only been about 45 minutes , Once into windows its self well i say very fast compared to xp and gfx and audio worked straight out the box ,,,, but i still prefer osx to be honest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idealmind Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 Does anyone know the drivers to install for sound? I cant get the audiot to work with this build with my IMac I tired earphones also, no sound... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigboss Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 Does anyone know the drivers to install for sound? I cant get the audiot to work with this build with my IMac I tired earphones also, no sound... there are no apple drivers for vista (bootcamp is only for xp home and xp pro w/sp 2). also, the xp drivers for audio may or may not work with vista (i wouldnt try it). finally, why would you want to format your hard drive (and get rid of os x) to install vista? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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