Windows 8 FREE Developer Build

LifeOnMars · Sep 14, 2011

Tonights the night, I'm gonna give this try. I'm due a reinstall anyway so I'll give this a whirl before reinstalling windows 7. I'll try a few games, apparently the 11.9 betas work fine with this.

Can I just install it from USB?

erixx · Sep 14, 2011

Strange. Making an install USB pendrive with an Adata USB3 didn't work, but an older USB2 works...

Derek12 · Sep 14, 2011

cheesy999 said:
i must be really lucky, i haven't come across one error yet

In my case I got the BSOD metioned earlier that I fixed enabling APIC, black/green screens after logon but isn't locked, once it rebooted spontaneously while I was seeing the control panel, once it froze after logon, and now I am repairing (refreshing) it

Maybe I am too unlucky

cheesy999 · Sep 14, 2011

Derek12 said:
In my case I got the BSOD metioned earlier that I fixed enabling APIC, black/green screens after logon but isn't locked, once it rebooted spontaneously while I was seeing the control panel, once it froze after logon, and now I am repairing it

Maybe I am too unlucky

mines worked flawlessly, i'm posting from it now, and it seems quite stable

folding@home works quite well

Drone · Sep 14, 2011

lol I get bugs because I ask for them rofl

Just found a good tip:

If you want to enable good ol Start Menu and disable Metro UI here's how:

Goto regedit and goto following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer

In right-side pane, change value of RPEnabled to 0

That's all. If you want Metro back then change back the value to 1.

p.s. ouch ... this also disables windows explorer's ribbon, start screen and maybe something else aswel...

TRWOV · Sep 14, 2011

Good, there is a 32bit version. I'll install on my spare P4 machine, although I need a PSU for it.

LifeOnMars · Sep 14, 2011

So what do you guys think about xbox live coming onto Windows 8 then? Beginning of the end ?

Derek12 · Sep 14, 2011

cheesy999 said:
mines worked flawlessly, i'm posting from it now, and it seems quite stable

folding@home works quite well

Cool the refreshing repaired it, lets go experiment more

Have they removed WDDM requirements for aero? I ask this because I see Aero works fine in a generic (Microsoft Basic Display Adapter) driver within Virtualbox... I though at first Windows 8 had a Virtualbox driver LOL

Frick · Sep 14, 2011

Meh, Virtualbox says AMD-V is disabled in BIOS. I don't even have settings for it in bios, and I can't turn it off in Vbox either, for some reason. I guess I have to install it for reals if I want to try it.

Derek12 · Sep 14, 2011

Frick said:
Meh, Virtualbox says AMD-V is disabled in BIOS. I don't even have settings for it in bios, and I can't turn it off in Vbox either, for some reason. I guess I have to install it for reals if I want to try it.

I think you can install anyways without AMD-V

Frick · Sep 14, 2011

Derek12 said:
I think you can install anyways without AMD-V

I get an error messege saying it's not enabled, and the VM turns off. When I try to disable AMD-V accelaretion the changes are not saved. I'm trying to make a new VM but it seems it does not create the VHD.. WTF. Will reinstall the whol thing and see if that works.

cheesy999 · Sep 14, 2011

Derek12 said:
Have they removed WDDM requirements for aero? I ask this because I see Aero works fine in a generic (Microsoft Basic Display Adapter) driver within Virtualbox... I though at first Windows 8 had a Virtualbox driver LOL

virtualbox will let the guest have the 3d capabilities of the host, at reduced performance but they're still there

Derek12 · Sep 14, 2011

Frick said:
I get an error messege saying it's not enabled, and the VM turns off. When I try to disable AMD-V accelaretion the changes are not saved. I'm trying to make a new VM but it seems it does not create the VHD.. WTF. Will reinstall the whol thing and see if that works.

Ups true, and Windows 8 refuses to start without it, in my case I get this

and now after enabling it again, it's refreshing again, nooooooo

Drone · Sep 14, 2011

Yeah I've heard people have issues with amd-v in VirtualBox. Did you try VMware?

Derek12 · Sep 14, 2011

Drone said:
Yeah I've heard people have issues with amd-v in VirtualBox. Did you try VMware?

VMware workstation 8 support windows 8 previous versions not

cheesy999 · Sep 14, 2011

windows updates released already

JrRacinFan · Sep 14, 2011

This is quite interesting. I like.

Frick · Sep 14, 2011

Drone said:
Yeah I've heard people have issues with amd-v in VirtualBox. Did you try VMware?

I tried VMWare player first (latest version) and it didn't work at all.

Derek12 · Sep 14, 2011

Frick said:
I tried VMWare player first (latest version) and it didn't work at all.

Try VMware Workstation 8, it supports it

VMware Player still doesn't support it

digibucc · Sep 14, 2011

i don't like it.
and @ dual booting, it worked fine for me. different drives, but partitions should be fine.

cheesy999 · Sep 14, 2011

digibucc said:
i don't like it.
and @ dual booting, it worked fine for me. different drives, but partitions should be fine.

would dual booting work fine with vista?, as far as i know vista and 7 use same bootloader so...

i really like windows 8 and i think i might end up taking it out of the virtual machine and using for my day to day use

digibucc · Sep 14, 2011

the dev preview has it's own bootloader. which lets you choose which os to boot. also, when i made the choice it seemed to simply set the drive in my bios and restart, so that should work fine too.
in other words, it shouldn't make any difference.

erocker · Sep 14, 2011

LifeOnMars said:
So what do you guys think about xbox live coming onto Windows 8 then? Beginning of the end ?

Ah, renamed GFWL. When I'm setting up my O/S that will be one of the first things I remove.

Frick · Sep 14, 2011

cheesy999 said:
i really like windows 8 and i think i might end up taking it out of the virtual machine and using for my day to day use

Don't. It doesn't even have a release date yet and is probably more than a year away.

cheesy999 · Sep 14, 2011

Frick said:
Don't. It doesn't even have a release date yet and is probably more than a year away.

no i won't do anything important on it, but for internet browsing, day to day TPU etc

i think it could work quite well

it seems stable enough so i see no reason i can't use it for internet browsing, light gaming etc

overall i think it's better then 7, and considering i'm using vista...

I don't think it will be much more then a year away, due to the rate android and Ipads are advancing i have a feeling this will be rushed, i actually think we might see the release candidate in around 6 months, possible full release around next December

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