Vista RC2 Released

Big.Wayne · 9 Oct 2006 at 12:29

iMacMart · 9 Oct 2006 at 12:35

Creative drivers installed perfectly but EAX isn't working in BF2/2142 (ultra) nor EAX3 in COD2.......??? I have an XFi Xtreme card!

Anyone know a work round per chance?

Glaucus · 9 Oct 2006 at 12:36

kidloco said:
just cant get on with it at all. Main bug bears seem to be just the overall look

What you mean, it looks amazing and is so much more slick than XP.

Dodge777 · 9 Oct 2006 at 12:43

Hey all,

Not keen on doing an upgrade in case anything goes wrong. So instead I want to install vista onto a separate hard drive (D:\) and not touch my Xp installation on C:\. Is this possible? Normally I'd just use dos and install it by booting the CD but you can't do that with RC2 to my knowledge.

Any guidance would be great. Thanks.

TrUz · 9 Oct 2006 at 12:53

If the D drive is connected just select it at the install screen.

TrUz

kidloco · 9 Oct 2006 at 12:57

AcidHell2 said:
What you mean, it looks amazing and is so much more slick than XP.

I just dont think it does look amazing, I know I will have to get used to it though.

just out of intrest, what antivirus program are people using on this. I used Kaspersky and it just doesnt work with Vista ?

Glaucus · 9 Oct 2006 at 13:09

kidloco said:
just out of intrest, what antivirus program are people using on this. I used Kaspersky and it just doesnt work with Vista ?

Avast

Dodge777 said:
Hey all,

Not keen on doing an upgrade in case anything goes wrong. So instead I want to install vista onto a separate hard drive (D:\) and not touch my Xp installation on C:\. Is this possible? Normally I'd just use dos and install it by booting the CD but you can't do that with RC2 to my knowledge.

Any guidance would be great. Thanks.

If you already have a hdd called D:\.

Just boot up of the cd and install it. It'll automatically create a dual boot login screen. If you only have 1hdd and want to split it into 2 drives, you need a 3rd party software and do it from within xp.

Teki187 · 9 Oct 2006 at 14:07

Been using it all this morning and i can not wait to get this over XP, everything just seems to be working, smooth, fast and games are amazing, getting some VERY good FPS in games.

Couple of problems i've had is mainly down to lazy dev's from other companies not producing new versions for vista. But that should be fixed when we migrate.

But as always Firefox 2 > IE7

Echo toxin · 9 Oct 2006 at 15:05

I think the most exciting thing is the prospect of seeing some really nice GUIs on upcoming Vista apps, providing they use the Windows Presentation Foundation.

Slinwagh · 9 Oct 2006 at 19:50

Well i have been using Vista RC2 all day and so far the only thing that hasn't worked in BF 2142 but that is no big surprise!

I haven't tried any AV yet or logitech drivers.

Gman · 9 Oct 2006 at 20:14

one positive thing i've noticed as well is it's memory handling. In xp I used to open up quite a view very high rez pictures in firefox and after say 10 tabs it would get really slow in firefox. In vista however i haven't noticed this slow down at all, if anything it's slightly smoother.

Only down thing so far is vista starting up, seems to take an age to do so but thats no biggy.

Scottland · 9 Oct 2006 at 20:19

Has anyone got a 9600 running with Aero?

I've used the same system for the past umpteen beta's with no problems running Aero, but now I can't select it from the Personalize desktop settings.

Any ideas?

reefoid · 9 Oct 2006 at 20:34

Can you use the same product key for 32-bit and 64-bit? I have RC1 32-bit installed but am currently downloading 64-bit RC2.

doran1801 · 9 Oct 2006 at 20:36

KoR said:
Can you use the same product key for 32-bit and 64-bit? I have RC1 32-bit installed but am currently downloading 64-bit RC2.

yep, works fine.

has anyone elses score gone down in windows experience?

i had 5.1 in rc1 but only 4.8 in this one

TrUz · 9 Oct 2006 at 20:49

Scottland said:
Has anyone got a 9600 running with Aero?

I've used the same system for the past umpteen beta's with no problems running Aero, but now I can't select it from the Personalize desktop settings.

Any ideas?

Yes read one of my previous post about Aero and RC2, you need to make a registry edit.

TrUz

LewisStuart · 9 Oct 2006 at 20:50

Is this the right Messenger for Vista?

http://get.live.com/messenger/sysreq

TrUz · 9 Oct 2006 at 21:04

doran1801 said:
yep, works fine.

has anyone elses score gone down in windows experience?

i had 5.1 in rc1 but only 4.8 in this one

Mine went up, not by much but up.

TrUz

Glaucus · 9 Oct 2006 at 21:07

LewisStuart said:
Is this the right Messenger for Vista?

http://get.live.com/messenger/sysreq

yep, but heres a link anyway

http://get.live.com/messenger/features

Scottland · 9 Oct 2006 at 21:07

TrUz said:
Yes read one of my previous post about Aero and RC2, you need to make a registry edit.

TrUz

Thanks, sorted. I missed that post

w3bbo · 9 Oct 2006 at 21:14

Its ALIVE!!!!!

....Vista RC2 works with 7950GX2.

Only drivers I needed to install with my spec(below) were the NV and XFI ones, everything else worked with no problems (including intel raid :eek:

)

First impressions are very good, nice and smooth.