Vista SP1

[Niall]

Na, it was definitely QoS, or a similar sports panel game. I'm pretty sure it's QoS though.

[Rik]

Clips here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/blakes7/

[Niall]

I can't find out what was on before it. I've found out every single piece of trivia about the show, but not what was on before or after it.

I didn't realise I was only 5 when it started!

[Rik]

I wonder if there's a 'historical Radio Times' site anywhere, Niall?

[TheMonkey]

hi dudes long time no seen!

i downloaded this a while back and it did not like my nvidia drivers 

basically destroyed my resolution and i could not get it back. had to uninstall the service back completley.

I have a new Grahics card now, ATI radeon 3850 HD thing so i may give it another go.

[Rik]

We thought we'd lost you. Welcome back. 

[madasahatter]

hi dudes long time no seen!

i downloaded this a while back and it did not like my nvidia drivers 

basically destroyed my resolution and i could not get it back. had to uninstall the service back completley.

I have a new Grahics card now, ATI radeon 3850 HD thing so i may give it another go.

Was it one of the betas that you used, or the finished version of SP1?

[TheMonkey]

could have been a beta. it was a while ago

[Lance]

I final version has only been out a few weeks, so if it was a while ago it must have been a beta

[madasahatter]

Hopefully whatever caused that issue has been fixed then 

[Sebby]

Always slipstream a service pack, where possible; it works much better.

[Gary]

Another way if possible, wipe your drive and start fresh, then install all your drivers and applications after

[Sebby]

You should definitely slipstream if you're going to do that, Gary.

[Gary]

You should definitely slipstream if you're going to do that, Gary.

Agreed Sebby, still waiting for the PC to turn up this week, so first things first then I shall be doing that, its the best way of installing a service pack to avoid conflicts.

[TheMonkey]

downloaded SP1 2 weeks ago and its running a charm.

bonuses are that it now knows i have 4 gig of ram instead of 3.5 and directx 10 is with it.

so far so good. system is running alot quicker 

[Rik]

I take it you're running 64-bit Vista?

[TheMonkey]

nope 32bit. should be running 64bit but computer strangly came with 32bit OS

[Noreen]

New laptop came with Vista SP1 already installed, thank goodness. All seems to run very fast.

[Rik]

nope 32bit. should be running 64bit but computer strangly came with 32bit OS

So how's it handling the memory addressing?

[TheMonkey]

i'm a bit of a wally so i'm not sure what you mean by memory addressing.

all i know is that in the system status scrren it used to show 3.53 for ram now it reads 4. 

[Rik]

Traditionally, Windows uses memory space above 3GB for it's own purposes and that of the system, eg the graphics card memory. This is a throwback to the original memory limitations of the x86 chips. It's sounds as if Vista is abandoning that backwards compatibility in some way, I'm just curious how.

[Sebby]

I also wonder, Rik. I thought it could never show 4GB on a 32bit OS...

[Steve]

This may help? not sure whether 32 bit can use it though.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929605

[Rik]

Thanks, Steve. That seems to confirm that you need a 64-bit OS to see more than 3.12GB. Odd.

[TheMonkey]

so in summary 32bit will know about the 4 gig but still can't use it?

bloody usless gits