08 November 2006

More Vista 64-bit

Vista x64 build 5744 (RC2)

It's another improvement for Vista. Smoother & faster then RC1. It found all of my hardware again, and is working well. Installation was just as quick & painless.
I opted to reformatting the Vista partition and installed fresh.
The 3D stuff works well, it's a bit gimicky, but it works. I've found that most companies I've seen just switch to Classic, so a lot of those features will be lost on them.

Now that Vista has gone to manufacturing, I imagine they've done more incremental improvements. This build goes further in speed & seems more polished. It's still not as fast as XP on the same machine, but it's a good improvement.