Windows Vista Beta 1

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musicroom

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Hi,

Well I have been invited by Microsoft to download and test Vista Beta 1, but I am a bit worried, I use my computer for MS Office, World of Warcraft ... etc. So will all this program still be compatible if i install windows vista beta 1?

I imagine that the answer is yes , but I just want to be 100% sure, before I make a fool of myself .. :wacko:

Thanks for the response !

Musicroom :woot:

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Longhorn doesn't even support Nvidia 6 series grpahics cards :( I couldn't see Pretty effects even if i wanted to!

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Looking at the driver support list for the x86 version, Vista does support GeForce 6000 series cards. Many of them. If you want, Ill post the list of the nVidia cards supported that MS provided (6000 series cards). Also, I have a 6800 card, and I am doing just fine. Your card must be broken.

Oh, and if you have the x64 Version installed, there is a list for them too. As well as a new driver out from nVidia that should work just fine for you.

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dougal.s

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How on earth did you get invited?

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None of your business I shouldn't think!! It isn't our place to question how/if people got invited.

Musicroom: The whole idea of the Beta is to find out what is and isn't compatible. if you have a spare drive install Vista on that. It is never really recommended to use a Beta OS as you main OS, unless you find it very stable and compatible with existing applications.

Dougal.

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Few questions for everyone who has it installed. Interested in knowing the following:

1) Has anyone tried recent games (Half Life 2, Doom III Battlefield 2) and if so do they run fine?

2) Has anyone been able to get DLink Wireless cards working with it?

3) Are you using it as your primary OS, why or why not

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Dasgooch

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"Install Supplemental Drivers"

Didnt it start on the first boot ? ;)

D:\Windows\System32\DPUpdate.exe -findSource

Run it... It should install the marvell drivers.

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I successfully installed Vista on my Silicon Image Raid 0 setup with no problems. It will not let you load the driver from Windows Setup but if you boot from the disk you can load a third party driver from floppy or CD/DVD.

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karma_police

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Wow, mine is ultra smooth too and I-m loving it. Not a single crash yet and the glass efect is working.

Running on:

Pentium M Dothan 1.7GHz

Radeon Mobility 9600 Proturbo 128MB

512MB PC2700

Every piece of hardware was detected, well not my modem but I dont care because I never use it lol.

I just found one glitch and I dont know why I cant remove this, it-s floating in front of every window I open :rofl:

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