Vista Release Candidate 1: Download Now!!

[mrjake2002]

Just to let you know. The Release Candidate 1 of VISTA is available here.

[Gunny04]

I would download it....... but I do not feel like loosing all my data on my second partition, and I dont have a second hard drive.  :(.... Cheers, Gunny

[ctjoyce]

Old news. Have had it for about two weeks now. Lets just say A LOT has changed. For starters driver issues are no longer. Everything I plug in works, and they have included a lot of OEM stuff, so its much like a Mac. Also its more stable, I have yet to bluescreen. And finally we can access the XP folders, you couldn't do that before, and they have seriously toned down the "Protecting yourself from yourself" crap.

All in all its a great OS, but then again any beta OS that lets me play WoW with no loss of framerate, FSX with decent frames, and NFSMW with no problems is Okay by me. Unfortunately the Defcon demo didn't run, but I'm going to run it through steam and see if that helps.

Cheers
Cameron

[cleobis]

I also got the vista RC1, so can you guys say that FS works fine wiht it?? and alos, upgrading from my XP OS will I loose my HD data? Will I have to install XP again?

cheers

[ctjoyce]

NO! Don't do the upgrade from XP to Vista. You wouln't loose your stuff, but you cant "downgrade" back to XP if you don't like Vista. So if you don't like it you have to reformat. And yes FS does work OKAY! Not great, but Okay. I'm getting around 28FPS with maxed settings in SeaTac, and around 20FPS in my higher terrain meshed areas. FSX will run for me at about 12FPS with maxed settings (compaired to my 25 ~ 30 in XP). So will it work? Yes, would I suggest useing Vista to fly...no.

If you do install, only do so on a secondary partition that you don't care about, or a second drive that is fine to loose. DO NOT overwrite your XP install.

Cheers
Cameron

[flymo]

downloading the 64bit version  for use with me new rig.

cam what rateing do you get on vista?

[ctjoyce]

Why tell you when I can show you



As you can see, if I had my Conroe in there like I want, I would have a 5

Cheers
Cameron

[flymo]

wow sheila scores quite high..just change that cpu and its champion

my current rigs scores a 2
my new one should score a 5 which would be awesome!

which conroe core cpu are you getting?

[ctjoyce]

I'm getting the E6600, as I can OC it to atleast 2.8Ghz, and the cheaper processer allows me to get a second video card.

And your rig will most definately score a 5. And do give FSX a whirl, I think my problem was the laging processer on only one core.

Cheers
Cameron

[flymo]

thats a good cpu

just have to be careful with some of the lower end conroe's because some sites are advertising it as conroe when they are actualy allenadle cores. i think its the 1.8 and 2.1 cores that have the problem.

by xmas i should be runnign FSX max settings good fps

AMD x2 4600+
256mb 7900GS XT
4GB ram

should do that trick

[ctjoyce]

If your running that primarily on XP then drop to 2GB of RAM (XP will only recognise 2GB), and get two 79050GT insted of the one 7900GTX 512MB. FS's textures arn't big enough for the 512MB card to be worth it. FSX will be, but your going to want DX10 for that, and then the 1GB cards will be out.

As for my processer, I woudn't bother with the 2MB L2 processers, so I'm not all the worried.

Cheers
Cameron

[flymo]

ok cam im working to a budeget i aint robbed a freikin bank!

and i plan on upgradeing to vista on relase which is why im slapping in the ram and im also planning on doing the DX10 upgrade...what gamer could be without those things...NONE I TELLS YA NONE!!!!

jon

[GeForce]

just have to be careful with some of the lower end conroe's because some sites are advertising it as conroe when they are actualy allenadle cores. i think its the 1.8 and 2.1 cores that have the problem.

The E6300 and E6400 are Allendale cores. I haven't got a clue why anyone is calling them Conroe really.

As for the extra 2mb cache of the E6600 and higher, it's supposed to be equivalent to an extra 200mhz clock speed. Not a huge difference.

The bigger advantage with the E6600 and higher is the higher multipliers, which allow higher overclocks without the motherboard conking out on FSB.

Jon

Edit: @Cameron: XP Pro will recognise up to 4Gb of physical memory, using /3g boot.ini switch

[flymo]

thankyou GeForce for backing me up..... people keep telling em that because the site sais conroe it is! but they are just liek teh noobs

[ctjoyce]

thankyou GeForce for backing me up..... people keep telling em that because the site sais conroe it is! but they are just liek teh noobs

Mmmk I'm going to write that off as l33+ sP33k and not correct it.

And the thing is that most people see Core 2 Duo and think Conroe, I was victom for awhile.

Cheers
Cameron