Yea i think i stumbled upon that last night,Quote:
Originally Posted by loydall
i read that you can do a 30 day trial install first by not entering the key, then you can do a clean install over that and enter your key.
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Yea i think i stumbled upon that last night,Quote:
Originally Posted by loydall
i read that you can do a 30 day trial install first by not entering the key, then you can do a clean install over that and enter your key.
oh, now this sucks. I never got the RTM nor RC1/RC2 to work, but I thought it was because they were "beta"... but Remote Desktop Connection on machines in the same network, same gateway is failing.
Can't even ping the damn things. I can ping localhost/127.0.0.1, but even on crawling the network, they're not seeing each other.
And just before I even installed Vista, I could talk to the XP machine when they both were XP... and after reading a bit, looks like RDC is a bit busted in Vista.
Hotfix 1Quote:
Originally Posted by gerbick
And so it begins.
ok... got network discovery to see each of the machines finally - default setup when the drivers for the network adapter aren't installed at first is that it's a public network - which isn't the case, meaning it's a "standalone" install, and I have a network here - and it should be set to private network.
After seeing the other servers, still can't ping. Can't hit the normal shares - C$ for instance. Only the explicit shares... like Printers.
RDC... still ain't working. I've updated the clients on WinXP Pro SP2 and Win2k3 SP1 to the newer 6.0 version and they can talk to each other. Each HD is NTFS... but connecting to the Vista box... still not working.
ugh.
argh... mother**** this piece of ****.
I've all but given up on making RDC work in my network.
You might have said earlier but, which version of Vista are you running?
Vista Business now.
http://www.clearification.com/
Demetri Martin doing some random things... I've never really seen his stuff before, I think it's great... :D
oh what a friggin' joke.
I have to do "allow connection even if authentication fails" as well as redo my account and network credentials on the other machine to get it to see each other correctly... on top of using the RDC v6 client, which I'm still scratching my head as to why. Finally got the firewalls on each machine to allow for seeing each other, admin shares (C$ for instance) still fail going from WinXP to Vista, but work from Win2k3 SP1 to Vista and Vista works with them all now.
Strangest issue ever, but dammit I got it all working.
Now... to change the fonts on the damn taskbar. I got the rest of the system down to Arial (8pt) except the taskbar, which is still Segoe which looks like a MS Sans variant of Comic Sans to me... ugh.
Vista isn't worth it if you're a tweaker... but they sure as hell did speed it up from the RC's. Also, using Readyboost and adding another 1gb to the virtual swap, a lot of programs are friggin' loading up fast as hell, but it takes a while for them to get cached.
It's starting to leak memory... or so it seems. Firefox does this, and it seems like some svchost stuff does also. It's not the bluetooth, printer, nor wireless stacks though. Will trace this one down.
holy damn... what happened in the apps section!?
3ds max was just... destroyed.
and yet...
http://images.tomshardware.com/2007/...ta/chart26.gif
Which one is newer?
SpecViewperf seems to be GPU related, where rendering is pure CPU.
And it seems like Vista is having a problem. I wonder is it because 3ds max 8/9 still use DirectX 8.0 or that they didn't test it in OpenGL or HEIDI as well... that could make a diff in the final numbers... I think.
But the CPU part... doesn't surprise me. With 50% more services, Vista is too concerned with running Vista and not running apps.
Wow. Just installed it on Vista Business N (Academic version through my Uni)
So far, I'm impressed. The resource hog that it is, it's well done. Smooth and I think quite well thought about. I've only been using it for an hour so expect some things to jump up and bite me.
Oh, and having to click 4 Confirm buttons just to make a folder in the Program Files folder and rename it is NOT COOL!
---Update---
Stoked! You can FINALLY paste an IP into the TCP/IP settings... ohhh yeah!
This guy got it to load
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVbf9tOGwno&eurl=
Quote from that Toms Hardware review jAQUAN posted.Quote:
There are some programs that showed deeply disappointing performance. Unreal Tournament 2004 and the professional graphics benchmarking suite SPECviewperf 9.03 suffered heavily from the lack of support for the OpenGL graphics library under Windows Vista. This is something we expected, and we clearly advise against replacing Windows XP with Windows Vista if you need to run professional graphics applications.
I read somewhere that soon ATI and Nvidia will be bringing OpenGL to windows vista in thier upcoming driver updates.
We installed Vista on my computer a week or two ago - clean install, not an upgrade. P4 3 ghz processor, 1 gig ram, readyboost of 2 gigs. Flash MX runs unbearably slow - too slow to actually do any work, text editing on a relatively small file (7 meg fla) was pretty near impossible due to having to wait a while after every word was typed to see if there were any typos :zzz:. My husband just built a computer with a 2.4 ghz dual core processor (overclocked to about 3.5 ghz) and 3 gigs of RAM (cause Vista won't recognize the fourth gig of RAM unless you go 64-bit) and he said it's not much faster running Flash. I plan to set up a dual boot this weekend and run XP when I need to use graphics programs.
Flash is the only thing that I've run into that's pretty much unusable on Vista, but I haven't fooled around in Photoshop or Illustrator long enough to see if they're running OK. At the very least, if you're considering upgrading, make sure there are drivers for everything you will want to be bringing in - there still aren't drivers for my Dell printer.
i saw on tech tv a newsflash that there is a class action suit against invidia for not realeasing drivers for vista fast enough.. wtf kinda bs is that.
The lawsuit is because the box the GeForce 8800 video card is packaged in says it's Vista-ready, but it only works some of the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by drunknbass
http://www.nvidiaclassaction.org/
Wouldn't Microsoft do everything they can to get me to install Windows Media Player? Well I guess not. As a Vista N user, to install WMP or any of it's components, I have to install the Media Restore Pack. This is already a week overdue.
Other than that, Vista is going well :D
I got the new windows vista a few days ago and I also have that annoying problem with flash, it takes ages to get in and out of a movie clip! Someone please help solve this problem!Quote:
Originally Posted by drunknbass
Nataly :mad: