Vista RC2 Released

The Running Man · 10 Oct 2006 at 19:06

does winamp use OpenAL?

Scottland · 10 Oct 2006 at 19:06

TrUz said:
Media playback is fine here in Media player and Media Center.

TrUz

TV Playback? What TV Card?

PiKe · 10 Oct 2006 at 19:28

When's RTM due?

w3bbo · 10 Oct 2006 at 20:09

Scoobie Dave said:
Does anyone know if RC2 suffers the same problem with the installation hanging like RC1 did when using a 7950 GX2 gfx card?
I had to borrow a old Nvidia card off my mate to get through the installation for RC1, then it was fine once it was loaded with my GX2 back in.

Any ideas?

Works fine m8. I looked all over the net for confirmation that RC2 works with a GX2 but couldn't find anything...maybe I am the first

The only problem I have encountered is that it wont work on my native 1680x1050 resoultion although it works fine with 1600x1200 (which dosn't appear stretched at all...bug????

Scoobie Dave · 10 Oct 2006 at 20:10

w3bbo said:
Works fine m8. I looked all over the net for confirmation that RC2 works with a GX2 but couldn't find anything...maybe I am the first

The only problem I have encountered is that it wont work on my native 1680x1050 resoultion although it works fine with 1600x1200 (which dosn't appear stretched at all...bug????

That's good news then.

meghatronic · 11 Oct 2006 at 00:26

Well... dvd's won't play for me on my laptop.

I thought it was the lack of ram so jumped from 512mb > 1.25Gb..... not made a slight difference.

Anyone any ideas before I blank it and bung linux back on it?

PiKe · 11 Oct 2006 at 00:29

Lack of a codec?

doodah · 11 Oct 2006 at 02:59

dont suppose anyone feels like burning RC2 onto a DVD?

Missed out and only have 500Mb daily limit

iMacMart · 11 Oct 2006 at 07:26

dbappa said:
dont suppose anyone feels like burning RC2 onto a DVD?

Missed out and only have 500Mb daily limit

Send your address to me in trusted dbappa and I'll stick a DVD in the post mate

TrUz · 11 Oct 2006 at 07:58

Scottland said:
TV Playback? What TV Card?

Maybe not. I watched another movie last night through Media Center and whenever there was white black pixels appeared, not in Media Player though.

TrUz

marc2003 · 11 Oct 2006 at 09:07

i fired up the media centre last night and got pixellation just in the gui before attempting to do anything.... :eek:

needless to say i'm a bit concerned about my gfx card now. games seem ok though..... :confused:

TrUz · 11 Oct 2006 at 09:20

marc2003 said:
i fired up the media centre last night and got pixellation just in the gui before attempting to do anything....

needless to say i'm a bit concerned about my gfx card now. games seem ok though.....

GUI was ok with, just playback. ot sure if it is due to drivers or what. Media Player is perfect though.

TrUz

Echo toxin · 11 Oct 2006 at 09:51

Supposed to be new drivers out for the Creative cards now (11th October). Have a look on the US site. Tried installing them this morning before work but it chucked a bit of a wobbly so I left it. I'm thinking that may be because I've manually disabled the Audigy card in Device Manager.

J.T · 11 Oct 2006 at 10:01

Echo toxin said:
Supposed to be new drivers out for the Creative cards now (11th October). Have a look on the US site. Tried installing them this morning before work but it chucked a bit of a wobbly so I left it. I'm thinking that may be because I've manually disabled the Audigy card in Device Manager.

You got a link at all?, I can't seem to find them on their site.

EDIT: forget it I found them, was having a dumb moment!

marc2003 · 11 Oct 2006 at 10:29

those new audigy2 drivers are just the job. no error messages after reboot like i had with the old one. and also the tone control sliders are actually usable....

J.T · 11 Oct 2006 at 12:05

Still no driver for my Audigy SE

Think I am going to have to invest in a new Sound card soon.

marc2003 · 11 Oct 2006 at 12:19

J.T said:
Still no driver for my Audigy SE

Think I am going to have to invest in a new Sound card soon.

here's one.....

http://us.creative.com/support/down...&driverlang=1033&OS=26&drivertype=0&x=26&y=13

J.T · 11 Oct 2006 at 12:34

Thanks for trying, but I need the 64bit version, and unless they have put one up sinse the last time I looked, I don't think there is one

TrUz · 11 Oct 2006 at 12:51

J.T said:
Still no driver for my Audigy SE

Think I am going to have to invest in a new Sound card soon.

You are going to buy a new sound card because there is no driver for a RC version of Vista? There will be drivers once Vista goes gold.

TrUz

Scoobie Dave · 11 Oct 2006 at 13:41

marc2003 said:
those new audigy2 drivers are just the job. no error messages after reboot like i had with the old one. and also the tone control sliders are actually usable....

Going slightly off topic . . . Apart from increase in sound quality (supposidly) does anyone notice a difference with actual game performace when using a sound card, like the Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi? As the sound card takes away the processing that the cpu normally has to do in games (that much I understand). Can anyone back this up, is there much difference?