Windows Vista RC2 Released

ThraxThrax 🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
edited October 2006 in Science & Tech
32 and 64 bit clients found: Here.

This build is hot on the heels of the first post-RC1 build, 5728. Bypassing expectations that there would be one more build between RC2 and 5278, Microsoft has delivered to us what might be the last pre-RTM build. Have at it. :)

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  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited October 2006
    So ...does it seem worth the upgrade at release time or should we wait?
  • scottscott Medina, Ohio Icrontian
    edited October 2006
    I think the OS is pretty close. All the problems I am having are with 3rd party support. ( Drivers) I am using the Nvidia "beta" 96.33 's They suck. All kinds of stuttering in games. I have only found one AV program that works "Trend Micro" I hope RC2 will address some of the other problems I have been having. With RC1 "Windows" could not see the internet. As in no updates, IE could see it just fine. I just started the RC2 upgrade and it told me I have no internet connection . ( I do )

    And this one really burns me.
    In the pre-beta release "Media-Center" saw all the .VOB files in my movie library and would play them. RC1 reports the folders as empty. ( They play just fine in WMP but aren't there in MC. I read online somewhere that this is a DRM thing imposed by "Hollywood"
    This may be the deal breaker for me.

    I otherwise like it a lot.


    Scott
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2006
    Are you using x32 or x64, Scott? x64 is months and months behind x32 in polish.
  • scottscott Medina, Ohio Icrontian
    edited October 2006
    I am using the 32bit.
    The rest of the system is
    NF7 ( no S )
    Mobile Barton @ 2400Mhz Water cooled
    1 gig Corsair ram
    6800Gt ( AGP )

    The RC2 upgrade is just finishing up
    We'll see how it did without "being online"


    Scott
  • scottscott Medina, Ohio Icrontian
    edited October 2006
    Well the upgrade to RC2 seems to have gone smoothly. Everything is still there.
    Windows update works again
    Activation went through
    Still no .VOB files in my Media library ( Via Media Center ) That Sucks
    I had to re-install the Nvidia drivers

    I will play with it some more later and report back


    Scott
  • indigoflow_asindigoflow_as Westerville, OH
    edited October 2006
    Thrax wrote:
    Are you using x32 or x64, Scott? x64 is months and months behind x32 in polish.
    So the x32 will likely perform better? or in what areas is it more "polished" would you say?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2006
    It performs much, much better. I'm not a programmer, so I really can't tell you why, but multimedia and video game performance are <i>especially</i> better on x32.
  • T-LAM-CT-LAM-C The Old-English &quot;D&quot;
    edited October 2006
    Ive downloaded the RC2 version via the akamai donwload manager only to receive this error at the end of the process:
    Downloads complete. However, download integrity is questionable. (MD5 mismatch). I am re-downloading at the moment but the MD5 sum is the same, right? How do I get around this
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited October 2006
    how many days is this? is it a 15 day trial or what?
  • alan-watsonalan-watson
    edited October 2006
    Does anyone know why RC2 appears to have been deleted by Microsoft.

    All the links which have been available over last two days have been inoperative and now those same links take you to download pages for RC1.

    Seems like RC2 has been withdrawn - does anyone know - or are there any new links ??

    ALAN
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited October 2006
    i just Dled it 2 hrs ago
  • KwitkoKwitko Sheriff of Banning (Retired) By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
    edited October 2006
    I must say the hardware support in RC2 is vastly improved. Out of the box, RC1 could not see my RAID array, but RC2 does. The only bug I noticed is the HD size reported is being doubled, as if the array were striped, not mirrored.
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited October 2006
    Every time I try Thrax's link, it kicks me to here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/

    I couldn't find anything on RC2 on the Vista page. Does anyone have another link, or did they take it down or something?
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited October 2006
    i just visited it from my pc ( which is now on Vista ) and it worked fine
  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited October 2006
    Second time I try Vista since one of the first leaked versions. Looks really nice but it's pretty sluggish on my rig. Everything worked "out of the box". Hate all the security dialogs but I guess Johnny McNooby needs them. If this is anything like the end product, I'll be seriously disappointed.
  • mtroxmtrox Minnesota
    edited October 2006
    Gargoyle wrote:
    Every time I try Thrax's link, it kicks me to here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/

    I couldn't find anything on RC2 on the Vista page.

    Ditto. In fact I don't even see the 5728 build I have now. Just RC1 5600. It did give me a new CD key though.
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited October 2006
    how did u get a cd key? I need one or else in 30 days i am SOL
  • EssoEsso Stockholm, Sweden
    edited October 2006
    I got the Key from the site (below),

    Select your location and then press GO ...
    You need an email address. ( I assume hotmail will do :smiles: )

    http://www.laboratoire-microsoft.org/n/22215/
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited October 2006
    thanks, IT rocks! cant wait till its final tho
  • EssoEsso Stockholm, Sweden
    edited October 2006
    Windows Vista download is closed ! :wtf:

    Microsoft pulls Vista RC2

    Still Vista RC1 is available for download,
    http://download.windowsvista.com/preview/rc1/en/download.htm
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited October 2006
    That's bizzare. I wonder if they're covering up some embarrassing bug?
  • jaredjared College Station, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2006
    yeah what the hell, everyone was saying how RC2 was a nice improvement... i go to download it and it is gone.... >:|

    wtf
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