Fista Beta 2

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » June 9th, 2006, 7:44

I said a download manager not The shoddy ms one

Getright ftw!

Read your PMs first though, some tricks for downloading easier

Post by **ProfHawking** » June 9th, 2006, 8:22

downloadthemall > getright

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » June 9th, 2006, 8:23

ProfHawking wrote:downloadthemall < getright

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » June 9th, 2006, 8:41

Just to be clear, getright is browser independent, *very* rarely crashes* once a download is going

It's also very good at doing stuff in the background, and is happy to do what you want it to

*Just don't try to hook it into IE7
*sometimes it'll freeze for 2 minutes if you start a big download with 4 parts enabled

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » June 9th, 2006, 9:21

Thoughts so far:

The x64 download is shaky as hell, and i can't find an sfv or md5 to verify.

Post by **FatherJack** » June 10th, 2006, 0:47

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:getright

GetRight is one of the few shareware-type pieces of software I have actually registered and purchased. Registering doesn't give you much more than the free version, but I felt I just had to reg it. It's probably handled terabytes of downloads for me, and is greatly improved over any versions people may have tried 2 or 3 years ago.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » June 10th, 2006, 2:01

FatherJack wrote:
Dr. kitteny berk wrote:getright
GetRight is one of the few shareware-type pieces of software I have actually registered and purchased. Registering doesn't give you much more than the free version, but I felt I just had to reg it. It's probably handled terabytes of downloads for me, and is greatly improved over any versions people may have tried 2 or 3 years ago.

That. it's one of very few apps i actually own.

also: fista takes about an hour to install, requires a user to hand for the first 5 minutes, then is pretty much fine by itself

Post by **Dog Pants** » June 10th, 2006, 7:18

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:
FatherJack wrote:
Dr. kitteny berk wrote:getright
GetRight is one of the few shareware-type pieces of software I have actually registered and purchased. Registering doesn't give you much more than the free version, but I felt I just had to reg it. It's probably handled terabytes of downloads for me, and is greatly improved over any versions people may have tried 2 or 3 years ago.
That. it's one of very few apps i actually own.

also: fista takes about an hour to install, requires a user to hand for the first 5 minutes, then is pretty much fine by itself

Better than XP there then. Bet it looks all cartoony though *cringes and sets to look like Win98*

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » June 10th, 2006, 17:02

ProfHawking wrote:downloadthemall > getright

I've discovered downloadthemall makes my browser unstable and causes some strange quirks, I wouldn't recommend it. I would switch to getright but I've already downloaded 60% using the downloadthemall firefox extension. Ah well.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » June 10th, 2006, 17:05

Dog Pants wrote:Better than XP there then. Bet it looks all cartoony though *cringes and sets to look like Win98*

Actually, i'm finding it pretty nice, it seems a good middle between windows classic and luna

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » June 13th, 2006, 15:08

Re: Getright.

Why does it insist on starting over from 0% again when it gets to about 60% of my Fista download?
It's fucking annoying.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » June 13th, 2006, 15:09

because a lot of the servers seem to have resuming turned off now.

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » June 13th, 2006, 15:16

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:because a lot of the servers seem to have resuming turned off now.

Totally, or a limited number? It seemed to be resuming well enough even after the first restart.
Oh well, I might see if I can find a torrent instead.

Stuk · Post by **Stuk** » June 13th, 2006, 15:26

Will investigate this at some point, although I don't really want to install it on my main comp, and the old one would probably explode if I tried it on there...

...but to chip in on the downloaders debate, I use Star Downloader, and that's damn good. Works beautifully with FlashGot extension for Firefox as well. And they do a free version.

Remember trying GetRight, and not liking it...the icons didn't look very pretty either. The do do a good site for searching file mirrors though.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » June 13th, 2006, 15:31

I lost 2 downloads that were very near completion, so I just downloaded it at work.

Also: http://www.tech-recipes.com/microsoft_v ... s1426.html (if you can get the link to work)
Which states you would be better off trying the 32bit version regardless of your CPU as Fista 64bit insists on 64bit drivers, apparently.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » June 13th, 2006, 15:35

there are workarounds for the driver stuff, but it can be interesting.

also, the x64 version will fail on boot if certain drivers are unsigned (again, workaroundable)

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » June 15th, 2006, 2:44

Last little Fista related toy for now.

To remove Fista's bootloader

1) boot off the Fista dvd
2) go to repair this installation
3) select command prompt
4) navigate to your dvd drive
5) Run boot/bootsect.exe /NT52 all /horse

This'll restore you back to the standard xp bootloader, then you can go and nuke the Fista partiton

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » June 15th, 2006, 12:29

Answers on a postcard to:

OMGWTF,
c/o a concerned citizen,
City 17

edit: Hooray, I'm not alone! Lots of noise on the GetRight forums about this. Looks like I'll have to hunt down an older version.

Post by **TezzRexx** » October 7th, 2006, 11:49

Uber bump.

I'm tempted to install this on my spare harddrive. How does it handle games now?

and is the shiny-ness worth it?

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » October 7th, 2006, 11:51

apparently it handles games pretty well. give it a go and report back