Vista Pe RC1 software thread

Slinwagh · 30 Aug 2006 at 09:46

As a few of us installed Vista Pre RC1 i thought it might be a good idea to have a thread to discuss software applications etc.

Could we all list whatever apps we have running, what has failed, what has bugs etc.

Echo toxin · 30 Aug 2006 at 09:48

How are people getting Steam on to their system? I kept getting an error about failing to WriteMiniDump or something like that on 5536, when it tries to update the Steam platform files.

Daemon Tools v4.0.3 nor Alcohol 120% (latest build) will install.

Slinwagh · 30 Aug 2006 at 09:51

World of Warcraft

Installed
Patched manually
Running - no issues.

Vai · 30 Aug 2006 at 09:51

Try this:

http://www.iexbeta.com/wiki/index.php/Windows_Vista_Software_Compatibility_List

doran1801 · 30 Aug 2006 at 14:58

nero 7 won't install, any good alternatives?

Xez · 30 Aug 2006 at 15:37

Echo toxin said:
How are people getting Steam on to their system? I kept getting an error about failing to WriteMiniDump or something like that on 5536, when it tries to update the Steam platform files.

Daemon Tools v4.0.3 nor Alcohol 120% (latest build) will install.

Steam is fine for me! Worked straight away even without deleting clientregistry.blob

Bony Maloney · 30 Aug 2006 at 16:02

doran1801 said:
nero 7 won't install, any good alternatives?

Roxio Easy Media Creator 8 and CloneDVD2 work fine with the latest build.

Nem · 30 Aug 2006 at 16:13

I've got Toca RD3 installed and working on it now, with a patch update for cd protection drivers.

Nick

Mint_Sauce · 30 Aug 2006 at 16:18

Those of you who have it installed is it yet good enough to replace XP? Any of you have a Canon SLR camera and tried installing the Zoombrowser software? That was the only reason I had to switch back from XP x64.

sunlitsix · 30 Aug 2006 at 16:18

Echo toxin said:
How are people getting Steam on to their system? I kept getting an error about failing to WriteMiniDump or something like that on 5536, when it tries to update the Steam platform files.

Daemon Tools v4.0.3 nor Alcohol 120% (latest build) will install.

right click on steam.exe > run as admin.
thats how i got it to work

malfunkshun · 30 Aug 2006 at 18:03

I have only really tried games so far

BF2, no problems, actually runs sweeter imo.
Fraps, no problems.
CSS, No problems.
DoW/WA, No problems.
Real Player, QT and so on no issues.
FEAR/Combat, runs better than on Beta 2 also imo.
CCleaner works but its more effective if you add a custom file to clean to get it to clean the IE files accurately.
Xfire and teamspeak work.

Punkbuster might have issues on some servers (BF2 and FEAR have shown this) unless you disable UAC/UAP.
I'm going to risk using this as my main OS for a bit, im that impressed.

Locrian · 30 Aug 2006 at 18:04

Firefox is working fine and still kicks IE into the gutter

sunlitsix · 30 Aug 2006 at 18:06

malfunkshun said:
I have only really tried games so far
<Games>

do you run all of these in compatibility mode?

malfunkshun · 30 Aug 2006 at 19:14

none of them, just as admin

Actually, scratch CSS, thats on the kids vista machine

marc2003 · 30 Aug 2006 at 21:59

i've had to revert to foobar 0.83 and daemon tools 3.33 (both work perfectly) but everything else works so far. copied over the steam folder from my xp install and that works just fine. also gta:sa and flatout2 work no problem. i'm suprised that the starforce protection included with flatout2 works fine in vista.