Ok, I just got the Windows 7 beta and successfully installed it to a Virtual PC. The only probelm I am experiencing is that the VPC cannot detect my 8600GTS gfx cards. (I have two, but I don't SLI them because some games get glitchy)
I tried downloading the Vista drivers for my cards, but the installer could not find my cards. In Device manager, under display adapters, it shows "Standard VGA Graphics Adapter"
Windows update doesn't detect the cards either, despite what the Nvidia website said under "Download Drivers > Windows 7"
Any help would be appreciated, as I would really like to see the new aero. Everything else has impressed me so far.
Philip T2009-01-11T12:21:11Z
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It's a Beta .... meant for Beta testers to log the errors & send them to Microsoft.
I'd like to offer you a solution, however, since there are no Windows 7 drivers from Nvidia, & Windows 7 Beta does not support all hardware .... not much we can do about it.
VPC does not directly use your systems graphic card, it uses a virtual Standard VGA device with 4MB Ram. Windows 7 seems to support many of the devices Vista supports, but only if it has direct access to the hardware, which in VPC is not allowed. If you check the settings you will find USB is not available either. I think the same holds true for VMware and other Virtual computing applications.
If you want the full "Windows 7 Experience", or any of the newer OS's, you will have to actually install it as the system OS, not run it in a virtual PC. AFAIK, from NT onwards, direct hardware access from an application is not allowed (HAL), helps control many badly written programs.
Ya i was aboout to get Windows 7 beta build for an extra computer, but in concern to your problem, I dont think it has anything to do with the fact that You are runnning it on a virtual pc, but like said above, it is currently in beta and probably doesnt support alot of hardware or have drivers for them. But it also might be the version of Winsows 7. Even though it is in beta, there are a lot of builds that are released that have tiny bug fixes and ect. But probably the most you can do is contact Microsoft and tell them about, because i dont think Nvidia has drivers for Windows 7 yet.