VISTA RC2: Comments & Questions

Dyre Straits · October 8th, 2006, 07:59 PM

For the latest VISTA release, here's a new thread for discussion.

gen.Rage1991hrv · October 8th, 2006, 08:13 PM

and what they have changed??
i dident dl it

Dyre Straits · October 8th, 2006, 09:33 PM

It's considerably better.

I haven't had much time to spend with it yet. BUT, I've installed the ATI Vista drivers and no longer get a corrupted screen when trying to do things other than view the pretty Desktop.

HaZe303 · October 8th, 2006, 09:40 PM

I agree, its very stable now. Much better than 5600. Even better than 5728! But like dyre straits said, i havent had much time with it. Because the downside with vista is, you cant use whatever anti-virus app you want, or you cant use all other software, or games. Not yet, so for me its only for testing Vista, i wouldnt use it as my standard os yet.

gen.Rage1991hrv · October 9th, 2006, 05:36 PM

can i just upgrade this version with new vista rc2??

i dont wonth tu lose any data that i have it now

Dyre Straits · October 10th, 2006, 07:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gen.Rage1991hrv

can i just upgrade this version with new vista rc2??

i dont wonth tu lose any data that i have it now

Well, I THOUGHT that was what I had selected (upgrade) for this release but it apparently did a new installation anyway. In fact, it made several changes that caught me by surprise.

For example: I'm installing it on my E: drive. This is a separate physical HD, not just a different partition on my System drive. On all previous installations, Vista would show that E: was where it was installed and it left my XP (C

drive isolated.

Well, this time around, VISTA shows that IT'S on C: and my 'real' C: drive has become E:. That really ticked me off at first BECAUSE I thought VISTA had REPLACED XP completely. It took a little investigating before I concluded what had actually happened. (I'm not the only one, either. Others have reported this.)

However, I'm still able to dual boot to XP Pro as well as VISTA RC2. Several files were written/updated in my XP PRO directory, too.

Now, here's my thoughts on it: I think this was the way it was supposed to be working all along. That may be why my ATI drivers weren't working properly on previous installations. I don't know that for sure. But, it would make sense that the drivers were looking for the files on C: when, in fact, the drivers were located on E:. That may explain all the corruption I was getting before. Again, I can't say this was in fact the case. But, it would make sense to me.

At any rate, with this installation, I've started clearing up a lot of space on E: (Vista's C

in order to do some software/game installations for testing. I feel that I'll have better luck now since the video drivers are working this time.

Dyre Straits · October 10th, 2006, 11:54 AM

I installed OBLIVION tonight and played from the very beginning up through the "Escape from the Sewers".

I had to turn off the Windows Sidebar, though, as it was flashing through the game graphics at first.

I had quite a slowdown in the area where the Emperor, his Blades, and the Dark Assassins all start fighting. I think at one point there were about 7 - 8 active characters and my FPS (guessing) dropped to around 12 - 15 or so.

Otherwise, the game is behaving VERY nicely. I'm using the exact same configuration for the game as I do with XP Pro and the NGO 1.6.6. drivers so that I have a good fair comparison.

I wonder if the ATI Tray Tool will work in Vista?