Hi Chris,
I'm still absolutely stunned by this.
Progress so far:
1. Finally managed to install the hardware when I realised everything needed power (it's a sad story, but only discovered what the problem was when I realised I had four power sockets, four plugs
BUT five separate items needing power. I'd forgotten the base unit ...
2. Got the wireless network working including my old PC (the latter thanks to my wife who noticed that I'd entered something other than the "Network Key" as the "Wireless Key", in duplicate of course
).
3. Decided to have a clean install of everything on the
Dark Game Studio disk - which included a link to a one and half hour download of Visual Studio with lots of stuff I'll never need (no need to worry yet, but guess what I'll be uninstalling first
).
4. Activated DBPro - everything worked perfectly first time.
So a big thanks to those who said DBPro works fine with Vista - it does.
Here's a screenshot of one of my shaders in action. I can't believe the FPS:
Photos and more screenshots when I've recovered from the initial shock.
Quote: "I suggest you head over to nVidia and download some demos."
I will. Big problem at the moment is the distance of the BT exchange from our house - hence slow Broadband.
Perhaps I need another collection to pay for a closer exchange.
The big surprise to me was that the new setup worked first time with NO problems - with a new (to me) operating system. The only significant problem was getting the wireless network to recognise my
old PC - and I suspect that was down to impatience on my part because I'd placed it in, to quote CC2, "in increasingly absurd places".
In my naivity I'd expected a new state of the art system to be small. The screen, certainly, has shrunk (NOT the visible screen area I should add) - but the base unit is built like a Panzer (but is much quieter than a vacuum cleaner in case Mistrel is reading this
).
I can't thank
Visigoth enough for starting this - or
Cash Curtis II for kick-starting the collection. And thank you everyone else for contributing to this, especially
Scraggle who suggested a company who might deliver the goods (they have
) and
Mistrel whose initial spec was an excellent guide. It really is enormously appreciated.