Vista RC1 Community Preview Released

probably known as RC2 internally....

 

MS had a page up Wed. evening EST that called it RC2 but it was fairly quickly taken down (wish I had a screenie). Maybe that's where all the confusion comes in. On that same page they mentioned a limited CPP dl. I guess we'll see if that comes true.

 

here u go ppl. just to show RC2 was in fact released. piccy taken from winsupersite.com

 

Here ya go Mr. Halo From here. Hehe, I thought they were out of time for a RC2 build but MS proved me wrong. I won't kill my 5728 install as I'm only looking for extra driver support. It'll be a triple boot for now.

 

Yup CPP is available though it seems only the x86 flavour is there. Get it while it's hot.http://download.windowsvista.com/preview/rc2/en/download.htm

Here's my own pic.

 

Upgraded from RC1 5600 to RC2 5744. Seems to work well so far.

 

I never upgrade, how long did it take you? Anything break between the two?

 

I have a couple of questions about RC1:

*I think* I have aero glass selected (there doesn't seem to be anywhere in the 'Themes' or 'Window Color and Appearance' menus that mentions either Aero or Glass, BUT all the windows menus and task bar are transparant). Its just the task bar isn't really all that transparant, even with transparancy maxed, is this normal? I have previously have windowblinds installed on xp with the vista skin and the taskbar was almost completely transparant, which looked better in my oppinion.

Also most of the reviews of the various Vista betas mentioned the recycle bin slowly filling up with more balls of rubish the more stuff you deleted, but on mine it is only either full or empty, like in xp. Did they get remove that feature in rc1 or am I missing a bunch of options?
Cheers

 

I have upgraded Beta 2 to RC1 5600 and then to RC2 5744. I took about 1 hour and 15 minutes but nothing broke that I have noticed. I was pleased that Avast took the upgrade to RC2 with no problems. During the entire upgrade experience My SQL 5 express (I think that is correct) was the only component that failed the upgrades.

 

5744 works for me also.

Haven't been online much, due to two new games I have. Titan Quest (which requires me to close the explorer process, and set the main .exe priority to low....otherwise the game crashes), and CIV4:Warlords....

 

My engineering teacher said Vista is a HUGE resource hog of an OS, and requires basically a completely new computer to run.

True/false?

 

Though, people said the same thing when XP came out, compared to '98.

Though, these same people were mostly talking about game FPS scores.

 

or '98 when that happened. I think it's safe to say that most use XP now, at least at forums. I think the teacher should look more into the new capabilities of Vista rather than dismissing it due to lack of hardware or bloat.

I like this MSDN Channel9 video of a demonstration of WPF in action several months ago from the Scripp's Institute. The first 10 min is basically a promo but it gets interesting after that. It's a 40 min video on basic health research. Oh, let it dl for a few minutes before viewing it, not very good dl speeds. Enjoy and I hope the engineer sees something of value here also. Probably RC1. http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=213957

Oh, I like the forced reboot at 11:50, brought him right back to where he was, apparently.

 

Vista seems noticably faster than XP to me on the same computer:

AMD 64 3200+
2gb ram
250 gb sata hdd - two partitions: XP Pro and Vista RC2 5744
ATI 9600 video AGP

I don't think it is a resource hog. I mean, what is it hogging? Ram or cpu cycles?
The OS at this time is fast and responsive. The cpu meter bundled with the gadgets says it is using about 34% of the ram and the cpu isn't tasked at all. I think when it is released, it will be more efficient with resources than some Linux OS are.

I don't think a direct comparison on my machine is a good comparison because I don't have the same software on each OS and I don't know if the running processes are even closely the same.

The problem that I have with Vista is that I don't have much in the way of software for it. It is mostly a web browsing OS for me right now. I use Firefox, but IE seems to work very nicely. I am using Windows Mail and it works well also.

 

or '98 when that happened. I think it's safe to say that most use XP now, at least at forums. I think the teacher should look more into the new capabilities of Vista rather than dismissing it due to lack of hardware or bloat.

I like this MSDN Channel9 video of a demonstration of WPF in action several months ago from the Scripp's Institute. The first 10 min is basically a promo but it gets interesting after that. It's a 40 min video on basic health research. Oh, let it dl for a few minutes before viewing it, not very good dl speeds. Enjoy and I hope the engineer sees something of value here also. Probably RC1. http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=213957

 

I probably have already stated my specs, but here they are again:

Athlon XP 3200+ (barton)
1.5 gigs of ram
nvidia 6800

System Rating according to Vista: 3.6 (due to the cpu).

 

He tried Vista on a couple of computers in his lab, all P4+ and they took more than 3 minutes to even boot vista.

 

nVidia has released WHQL Forceware drivers ver 96.85 for RC2 and up today.You can get the x86 flavour here. There are also x64 drivers available. I'm off to see what happens. See ya'll later!

 

Need help, I have downloaded RC1 all over again, and I dont have DVD cds, and I have Alcohol 120% and Daemon-Tools, can I install on a separate partition on ym hard drive from XP? I want to be able to dual boot and how would I proceed with this?

 

I have successfully installed Vista (my first time installing) with Daemon tools. So, that is no problem. On the dual boot issue, perhaps this will help:

http://www.lifehacker.com/software/...-boot-windows-xp-and-windows-vista-179906.php

ON a side note. To those who complain (not that I see here, but for future readers) that playing games on vista is horrible. Note my specs on my previous post. I have no issues, playing FEAR, Titan quest (yes, yes, explorer issues), and Civ iv.

What I mean by this. The games run fine, after a few tweaks.

 

Anybody know where I can get a driver for my Nvidia GeForce 5500, that is compatible with Vista Build 5728!?!? The available download from the Nvidia site is for build 5744 and up, only...unfortunately I am one of the unfortunate ones that can't get 5744, so I'm stuck at RC1 Build 5728...unless somebody knows something I don't!?!?

Roger

 

Can't help you with your card, do you have a buddy who has 5744? If so, then your key will work. Hope that helps as RC2 is closed from MS. It's weird though, my crap card accepts everything. Did you try the guru3d drivers, it may help.Ver 96.89

 

Unafortunately, Auggie...I don't have too many friends...let alone one that would have 5744...and let me use it!!

No...actually, I don't know anyone that is as geeky as I am, that I would ask for 5744, so I'm afraid I am stuck with 5728!!

I believe that my issues are strictly related to the fact that it is an Nvidia product!! It seems to be the general consensus that Nvidia is generally lackin stable developements!! From what I've seen...they are usually a little later in the game when they finally get it right!! Not to say their beta driver for 5744 doesn't work great....I wouldn't know because, as I said before...I can't get 5744.

I was searching around and I found some archived beta drivers in the Nzone at the Nvidia site, but for some reason, they haven't archived what I'm looking for!! I know they did exist, because I seen them before, but for some reason I didn't grab it!?!?

But anyway...that's nothing unusual fro me...I'm always a day late, and a dollar short!!!!

Thanks anyway, though!!

Roger

 

Don't feel bad rog, I missed the 5744 download also.

Started downloading it one Friday morning I think and the connection I had at the time was crappy, so I decided just to download it when I got home. Bad idea, it was gone that afternoon.

Steve

 

Odd, I never downloaded any drivers for my nvidia card when I was using the 5728 build. Then again, I did when I was using beta 2. So, I'm guessing they carried over. You may want to see if you can't find an OLDER beta build of the nvidia drivers. For instance the beta 2 release of Vista for Nvidia.

 

anyone got a spare RC2 serial would be grately apreciated pm me

 

Use the RC1, same thing.

 

I did it too.......I had a ball with it. Upgraded my Windows XP Pro To Vista RC 1 on my DC7100 CMT and after a couple of months of fun my computer started dragging. Of course I was testing it to the max with different downloads and programs so I thought mayhaps I'd better clean it out and go back to the xp. Well.....it crashed.....I got the blue screen of death. I haven't been able to get the xp to load. The computer is still under warranty but I would still like to work this out myself. I would think that the restore disk would have worked. But it doesn't. The restore seems to be restoring.....then when it comes to putting the xp pro disk in....that disk doesn't seem to be recognized. Back to the drawing board. Anyone got any ideas? I've scratched the hair off one side of my head.