Vista RC1 Released to public

Jimmy 2004 · Sep 7, 2006

The first release candidate of Microsoft's next operating system has now been released. Anyone who already has a Product Key from the Vista Beta 2 can use that and Microsoft will supply new Product Codes to new testers soon. Post back on how you get on, there are both 32bit and 64bit releases.

Download it from here. Their download manager is trash for me with IE7 but you can use your own (just mine can't handle over 2GB).

Batou1986 · Sep 7, 2006

sweet now i can finally dl the 64 bit edition

mikek75 · Sep 7, 2006

Cheers for the heads up, hopefully this version will recognise my wireless network :toast:

Jimmy 2004 · Sep 9, 2006

Wouldn't count on it sorting your wireless... I just got it installed (64bit) and it still doesn't work to start with and I can't use XP drivers. To get the drivers I'll need to connect to windows update, with the catch being I need my wireless network in order to connect to it. Looks like I'll be moving my PC to get that update.

Ubuntu on the other hand needs no extra drivers and the wireless connection works fine 'out of the box'.

cdawall · Sep 9, 2006

hehehe im downloading it now

lets see how it likes my amd s754 the original 64bit

cdawall · Sep 9, 2006

holy crap 256k a sec this will take forever grrr calculated it if i stay @256k it will take 1 Days 9 Hours 27 Minutes 40.41 Seconds hehe thats not kool

edit part well its not taking as long as i thought apperantly it connected 4x to the same thing

and is down to 3-4hrs if it keeps the same connection speed :banghead:

that wont happen will it?

mikek75 · Sep 10, 2006

Jimmy 2004 said:
Wouldn't count on it sorting your wireless... I just got it installed (64bit) and it still doesn't work to start with and I can't use XP drivers. To get the drivers I'll need to connect to windows update, with the catch being I need my wireless network in order to connect to it. Looks like I'll be moving my PC to get that update.

Ubuntu on the other hand needs no extra drivers and the wireless connection works fine 'out of the box'.

Success! My wireless card (belkin pci) was installed automatically with vista drivers. At first it still didn't work so went back to xp(dual booting) ,logged into router and changed channel to 9.
All of a sudden, went back to vista and bingo! Works quite well except that avast anti-virus is blocked by the program compatability wizard( despite avast website saying it will work ).
I'm sure teething as a toddler was less painful than this :cry:

Jimmy 2004 · Sep 10, 2006

Hmm, my wireless is a PCI Belkin too and that doesn't work. Perhaps it will work when I reboot then!

As for cdawall's comment is that 256kilobytes or 256kilobits? If it's 256kilobytes it's downloading at 2megabit speeds so 3-4 hours is about right.

mikek75 · Sep 10, 2006

Thats odd. My card is a Belkin f5d7000, about 2 years old and by the time Vista booted the first time the drivers were installed. Maybe try it in a different slot to force os to re-install? Might work....

newmodder · Sep 10, 2006

which would be better to download for me, 32bit or 64 bit?

cdawall · Sep 10, 2006

Jimmy 2004 said:
As for cdawall's comment is that 256kilobytes or 256kilobits? If it's 256kilobytes it's downloading at 2megabit speeds so 3-4 hours is about right.

yeah i figured it eventually

newmodder said:
which would be better to download for me, 32bit or 64 bit?

you have a 64bit amd go for 64bit

btw ido i have to have pix-shader 2.x for the beta to work? :ohwell:

ti4200=1.x pixel shader

Jimmy 2004 · Sep 10, 2006

mikek75 said:
Thats odd. My card is a Belkin f5d7000, about 2 years old and by the time Vista booted the first time the drivers were installed. Maybe try it in a different slot to force os to re-install? Might work....

Vista reconises there is a card there, but doesn't have the drivers for it. It's the same card you have, is your Vista the 32 bit version?

mikek75 · Sep 10, 2006

Yeah ,32 bit. Thats a bit weird innit... Suppose thats why its pre release :banghead:

newmodder · Sep 11, 2006

well i just got it installed, the first thing i try is play BF2...haha no go, same thing happened with the Beta 2 version...any one have a fix for this?

W2hCYK · Sep 13, 2006

I have an extra 77gb partition and I will be trying this tonight once its done downloading.

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Motherboard	ASUS K8N
Cooling	AC Freezer 64 Pro + Zalman VF1000 + 5x120mm Antec TriCool Case Fans
Memory	1GB Kingston PC3200 (2x512MB)
Video Card(s)	Saphire 256MB X800 GTO @ 450MHz/560MHz (Core/Memory)
Storage	500GB Western Digital SATA II + 80GB Maxtor DiamondMax SATA
Display(s)	Digimate 17" TFT (1280x1024)
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