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[Drone]

Hm yeah I got a couple of problems too. Tried to play Prince of Persia 1989. It said that it's 16-bit and supported but didn't run. I will try it with dos-box.


Installed Half-Life 1998 (version 0.9 or was it 1.0).

Here it is in windowed D3D mode

 

[Frick]

GPU's do not support virtulization properly afaik, so that's why.

Will not launch for me in VMW Workstation, seems I have to try a real install.

 

[johnspack]

You can install it in virtualbox. It's cute, but I didn't waste much time on it. I'll just spend as much time tweaking it to be functional as I do with win7. Under the hood, I don't really see much improved over win7.

 

[LiveOrDie]

Games dont work on it to bad i would of used it for my main OS.

 

[Derek12]

GPU's do not support virtulization properly afaik, so that's why.

Will not launch for me in VMW Workstation, seems I have to try a real install.

Oh then it emulates a virtual GPU called VMware, therefore GPUZ can't get the values from the real card when running on VM?

Strange what happens when you try to install?


BTW I realized Windows 8 hangs when shutting down but I don't know if it's a VMware-related issue

 

[Drone]

BTW I realized Windows 8 hangs when shutting down but I don't know if it's a VMware-related issue

Edit

It shuts down just with a slight delay.

However none of the metro apps worked for me in VMware. Only desktop, explorers and control panel

 

[johnspack]

No OS is useful as a main os until at least beta2 builds. This is pre-beta1, the very first beta 1 build. Wait till at least beta2 or 3.

 

[Frick]

You can install it in virtualbox. It's cute, but I didn't waste much time on it. I'll just spend as much time tweaking it to be functional as I do with win7. Under the hood, I don't really see much improved over win7.

Didn't work there at all. Vbox had problems with my hardware it seems like, problems with AMD-V.

Strange what happens when you try to install?

When launching for the first time I get a dialouge box saying something like "there was an unexpected problem with the installation. Click ok to restart and reinstall windows." I've tried a bunch of times now and it looks like I have to do a proper install. Just as good, I don't have enough memory atm to play around in virtual machines anyway.

 

[johnspack]

Enabled intel vt-d on my i7 in virualbox to run it, but that should run it just fine........ this pre-beta is pointless anyways.

 

[repman244]

Didn't work there at all. Vbox had problems with my hardware it seems like, problems with AMD-V.



When launching for the first time I get a dialouge box saying something like "there was an unexpected problem with the installation. Click ok to restart and reinstall windows." I've tried a bunch of times now and it looks like I have to do a proper install. Just as good, I don't have enough memory atm to play around in virtual machines anyway.

Are you using vmware workstation, if yes, which version. I saw they ran Win 8 in the new version (version 8) which was released like yesterday.


Edit: for those asking about GPU's you would need something like AMD's IOMMU to be able to directly access the GPU (Sorry, I don't know what's the intel counterpart of IOMMU). Problem is, not many VM programs support this function and not that many computers.

 

[Drone]

I've just tested a system reset. Win8 is clean again. Glad to see that this function works without glitches. Took about 5 mins or something.

 

[digibucc]

so what is it like system restore but more complete? how big is the backup?

 

[Drone]

so what is it like system restore but more complete? how big is the backup?

you select account you want to purge and that's all. It goes back to factory settings. Then it asks for product key and you get the initial screen where you either accept default settings or customize them.

 

[digibucc]

you select account you want to purge and that's all. It goes back to factory settings. Then it asks for product key and you get the initial screen where you either accept default settings or customize them.

oh that's very cool actually.

i'm confident there will be a work-around for the start-screen/menu. once that's known, i'll be much more likely to upgrade.
i don't necessarily want the start "metro" screen gone, but i do want a start menu back.

 

[Frick]

Are you using vmware workstation, if yes, which version. I saw they ran Win 8 in the new version (version 8) which was released like yesterday.

That is the one I'm using. Tried different settings and such as well and it just doesn't work. So i'm giving up on doing it virtually, but it's cool as I have a spare drive (a 5400rpm laptop drive ) to install it on so it's all good.

 

[Reefer86]

im all over this, will be great to use this to annoy the crap out the missus.

 

[Derek12]

When launching for the first time I get a dialouge box saying something like "there was an unexpected problem with the installation. Click ok to restart and reinstall windows." I've tried a bunch of times now and it looks like I have to do a proper install. Just as good, I don't have enough memory atm to play around in virtual machines anyway.

Strange... when you create the VM, did you select "I will install the Operating system later"?

Because if you select the second option and select the ISO it will be installed in unattended mode and maybe isn't compatible yet that happened to me lol

Also how many RAM & HDD did you assigned?

 

[heky]

You have toselect the "I will install the operating system later" option. I also removed the floppy drive and the printer port from the hardware settings and it worked. I am typing this from windows 8 and explorer 10, hehe.

 

[Derek12]

Edit

It shuts down just with a slight delay.

However none of the metro apps worked for me in VMware. Only desktop, explorers and control panel

in my case it hangs on the green screen "shutting down" but it's a hard freeze because the mouse cursor doesn't move inside of the VM (at first I though the entire computer has froze)

Once I've managed to open a puzzle game within Metro but not anymore

EDIT: Now all Metro apps work here huh strange ?

 

[Reefer86]

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

this will never happen, not cross platform anyways

 

[Frick]

@derek and heky: Thanks, will try that. 2 cores and 1.5GB or ram assigned.

 

[Drone]

i don't necessarily want the start "metro" screen gone, but i do want a start menu back.

see this post

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2395107&postcount=80

in my case it hangs on the green screen "shutting down" but it's a hard freeze because the mouse cursor doesn't move inside of the VM (at first I though the entire computer has froze)

Once I've managed to open a puzzle game within Metro but not anymore

EDIT: Now all Metro apps work here huh strange ?

That's strange. Did you install update? Or it was out of box?
For me mouse cursor froze on the black screen but system shut down properly after 5-10 seconds but I'm still unable to use metro apps. But to hell with them. I think I'd rather be using real W8 machine. More space, more ram

 

[Frick]

Still not working.

 

[heky]

I had the same problem, but then i created a new custom virtual maschine, with the option to install operating system later and i also disabled the floppy drive, the printer port and it worked.
Oh and i use VMware workstation 8

 

[Frick]

I had the same problem, but then i created a new custom virtual maschine, with the option to install operating system later and i also disabled the floppy drive, the printer port and it worked.
Oh and i use VMware workstation 8

Did that but still no go. Will see if I can fiddle some more.