Vista Users: Official Vista "performance" and "compatibility" packs released

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...-released.html



I haven't installed them yet, but I plan to. This will most likely bug you in Windows Update in a few days.

(these are not service packs)

A few on Guru3D report performance increases in games.


From Microsoft:


Pack 1:
This update resolves the following issues:
• The screen may go blank when you try to upgrade the video driver. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
932539 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932539/) The screen may go blank when you try to upgrade the video driver on a Windows Vista-based computer
• The computer stops responding, and you receive a "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered" error message. You can restart the computer only by pressing the computer's power button.
• The computer stops responding or restarts unexpectedly when you play video games or perform desktop operations.
• The Diagnostic Policy Service (DPS) stops responding when the computer is under heavy load or when very little memory is available. This problem prevents diagnostics from working.
• The screen goes blank after an external display device that is connected to the computer is turned off. For example, this problem may occur when a projector is turned off during a presentation.
• A computer that has NVIDIA G80 series graphic drivers installed stops responding.
• Visual appearance issues occur when you play graphics-intensive games.
• You experience poor playback quality when you play HD DVD disks or Blu-ray disks on a large monitor.
• Applications that load the Netcfgx.dll component exit unexpectedly.
• Windows Calendar exits unexpectedly after you create a new appointment, create a new task, and then restart the computer.
• Internet Connection Sharing stops responding after you upgrade a computer that is running Microsoft Windows XP to Windows Vista and then restart the computer.
• The Printer Spooler service stops unexpectedly.
• You receive a "Stop 0x0000009F" error when you put the computer to sleep while a Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) connection is active. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
931671 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931671/) Error message when you put a Windows Vista-based computer to sleep while a PPP connection is active: "STOP 0x0000009F"



Pack 2:
This update resolves the following issues on a Windows Vista-based computer:
• You experience a long delay when you try to exit the Photos screen saver.
• A memory leak occurs when you use the Windows Energy screen saver.
• If User Account Control is disabled on the computer, you cannot install a network printer successfully. This problem occurs if the network printer is hosted by a Windows XP-based or a Windows Server 2003-based computer.
• When you write data to an AVI file by using the AVIStreamWrite function, the file header of the AVI file is corrupted.
• When you copy or move a large file, the "estimated time remaining" takes a long time to be calculated and displayed.
• After you resume the computer from hibernation, it takes a long time to display the logon screen.
• When you synchronize an offline file to a server, the offline file is corrupted.
• If you edit an image file that uses the RAW image format, data loss occurs in the image file. This problem occurs if the RAW image is from any of the following digital SLR camera models:
• Canon EOS 1D
• Canon EOS 1DS
For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
932988 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932988/) Files from a Canon EOD 1D or 1DS camera may be corrupted after you use Windows Photo Gallery, Windows Live Photo Gallery, or Windows Explorer to edit the file metadata in Windows Vista or in Windows XP Service Pack 2
• After you resume the computer from hibernation, the computer loses its default gateway address.
• Poor memory management performance occurs.


Official Download:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938194

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938979

I spotted that also... there Beta patches but many users have reports vast improvement with Vista after installing those... regretting blitzing my Vista partition atm... but I can restore that easily. Have to love drive imaging

These are final officially released patches however. Nothing beta about them and marked with an August 7, 2007 date. People can either download them now or wait for Windows Update to kick in.

I just finished installing them, and so far startup and windows explorer is much perkier now. I have yet to test any games though.

I can confirm this. Those patches boosted my FPS in GW by 5-10%, plus that annoying file transfer lag is finally gone.

I'll surely try this. I still have considerable performance issues in Vista, like half of the performance I used to have in Win2K. Since Vista I have to play GW with FSAA disabled, where in Win2K I could set it to 2x with better framerates.

Its weird. I've had several installations of Vista, and compared to XP some performed much worse and some performed as good or better. It's be very hit-and-miss for me. Maybe I'll try Vista once more and install one of these packs.

dunno about that ... im happy with the new drivers ... i got my EAX back =)

Umm...



What?

just to point out these hotfixs don't give the directsound layer,

i posted how to enable EAX vista if you have a creative card here


http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...26&postcount=6