Vista compatability

[tkiely]

Its a brand new Dell e520 and works brilliantly apart from the canon issue, so havnt delved too far. Have already gone with zingalebarbs idea off powering up after reboot as as a temp fix. Have to say vista seems to take a lot longer than xp to load the drivers for new found hardware! perhaps it just tells you more about what its doing?

[Alien]

Whilst I don't use Vista myself, I just thought I'd mention that if anyone else uses Caligari trueSpace 7 & has had problems trying to get it to work with Vista, there is apparently a fix posted on their forum [in the Tech section].

Apparently it's some sort of OpenGL compatibility issue, & as I understand it the fix just basically disables OpenGL capability [it can still do DirectX]. Vista isn't officially supported as an OS to use with tS by Caligari as yet, it's more of a "this should fix it, but if not we never actually said it would work with Vista" sort of thing.

[David F]

Originally Posted by Rhizome

I'd like to mention something to any composers out there.

If you expect better or the same level MIDI support in Vista as from 2000/XP, think again. The MIDI control panel is gone - literally - gone. You can no longer change what the MIDI out device is, so unless your software can set the output manually, you're stuck with the Microsoft SoftSynth (which is absolutely pants).

Also, gameport support is removed - so you'd better get a USB to MIDI cable if you want to even try MIDI on Vista (this also means people with joysticks that use the gameport are now screwed).

Because of those reasons I went back to 2000.

Originally Posted by nffc

Vista Audio link from Creative.

Drivers for Audigy expected Q1 2007 - which is up to the end of this month. Sounds interesting.

The software being developed by creative is named ALchemy beta version is available here (direct download)with limited support for games

if you want to play there is a method of adding your own support for games info here its a pdf btw

Link to site http://preview.creativelabs.com/alchemy/default.aspx

[nffc]

Interesting to see how it develops. I have an Audigy though not an X-fi (I wish...) It needs sorting though.

I'm not really a gamer, I use the card for music and stuff.

[David F]

Started using teakvi it works a bit like tweak ui. free version gives you some interesting options my fav is removing shortcut arrows off icons http://www.totalidea.com/content/twe...kvi-index.html

[nffc]

TweakVI - I don't like it. Vista however is great, and apart from the lack of a decent third party firewall with outbound monitoring, I've not found anything that doesn't work yet.

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Oh and the sound drivers are great, the GamePort works too - needs a different inf file, if anyone wants it, I have it.

[Shaun]

Strange you said that I couldn't get my (admittedly not the best) SoundMAX integrated card to work with Vista so switched back to XP.

[nffc]

I have an Audigy though. Integrated audio can sometimes be fussy.

[David F]

Ghost 12 works a treat with both 32 and 64 bit. Much better recovery enviroment than previous

[nffc]

Hmm, i had the beta of that, might investigate the full one.

FWIW, PC Tools firewall Plus is a decent Vista product with outbound filtering.
http://www.pctools.com/firewall
and it's free
(from the same people who make Spyware Doctor)

[Jefferson T]

Oh yes indeedy - I use ghost 12 here too (64bit)

[David F]

Originally Posted by nffc

Hmm, i had the beta of that, might investigate the full one.

FWIW, PC Tools firewall Plus is a decent Vista product with outbound filtering.
http://www.pctools.com/firewall
and it's free
(from the same people who make Spyware Doctor)

32 bit support only no x64 support for vista

[nffc]

i use x86 though

[David F]

Zonealarm appears to be out of beta for Vista now 32 bit only again

Direct link to downloader

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Vista Firewall does actually have full control of inbound and outbound connections but by default the control of outbound connections are disabled

Im not sure but I think these controllers actually just work with whats built in but could be wrong. 32 and 64 bit versions available

Tested 64 bit with leaktest and it blocked it. Will be a bit of a pain like zonealarm having to define connections as they first occur but least it works and isnt bloaty

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=5577 64 bit

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=5578 32 bit

[nffc]

I didn't like VFC, too many bugs like not remembering some of the choices.

And IMO, ZA used to be decent, but is so bloated. I'm waiting for Kerio or Comodo.