First up I KNOW it's beta and this isnt a whine, just wondering if anyone has come across the same problems and whether they have solutions. I understand stuff may be just plain broken

The Main Box

ASUS Fatality Nforce4 Mobo
AMD 64 3500+
2GB Crucial RAM
7800GTX
2 x 35gb Raptors (10k rpm & no RAID)


1. Networking a file transfers

Seems appalling inconsistent and just plain broken.

My test box was able to browse the workgroup (after refreshing many times and waiting forever for the other machines to show up) but it seems impossible to move a file onto a share on the MCE box I have. Example I was trying to move the Vista Nvidia drivers I downloaded (approx 4mb?) and it would just sit there for eternity 'calculating time'

2. Windows Update

Never works - always returns an error

3. Browsing

Very very slow

4. Audigy 2 ZS Drivers

Any appeared yet?

5. Lots of hung apps, some just stop Picture Viewer particulary and the app can't be killed without a reboot

6. Eve Online - cant even load up the login screen - just a black box


DIFFERENT MACHINE:

3300 Sempron
1GB RAM
6600GT
3 x 250GB IDE Harddrives
Gigabyte VIA mobo s939

7. Can't install at all on a box with 6600GT vid card. Does the 'loading windows files' bit followed by a black screen with a cursor after a brief flash of the loading animation, then just sits there.
I tried the same machine with the 7800GTX from the main machine above and it was fine, likewise with a radeon 9600 in it.

Microsoft doesn't read this so what's the point of this thread?

If enough people whine and niggle about a product that I suppose will again be full of bugs then sooner or later it will get back to M$

hopefully - they will take note

Ummm to get help from fellow knowledgable users ?

I thought this...



... made that pretty clear

Whats with the 'tude?

now quick info, is this in a VM? or just on a partition on your machine?

1. Networking is normally pretty consistent, depends on what NIC you have and the drivers that were written for it. moving from to or from the MCE, i have been able to move files from vista to XP and back without issue, the network speed has been fast but finding computers near just takes for ever.

2. Works fine, never gotten any errors. Has worked fine in the last 3 builds that i have tested.

3. Browsing the web is uber fast, or webpages open with suprising speed, both from my work and from my cable connection at home.

4. no hint on audio drivers, remeber the whole audio stack was rewritten, i am sure creative has had a hard time rewritting drivers to suit the no longer kernal memory audio stack, expect to see them sometime soon since vista is feature complete now.

5. haven't had to many hung apps, actually to think about it apps have been running smoothly, there have been alot of incompatiable apps though.

6. not sure on this one...

Get a real copy of Vista as a beta tester or from MSDN because downloading from torrents you never know if it been messed with.

i agree with gunsmokingman, as much as groups say they haven't touched the ISO, you never know who has gotten to it and messed with it before seeding.