3 things I have noticed with Vista SP1
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I upgraded Vista to SP1 a week ago today and my experience so far has been mixed. A few things run faster here and there but somethings are now unresponsive and sometimes to frustrating to even want to deal with. Here is a list of the top 3 things I have noticed about Vista SP1.
1. Games run smoother. Running the same drivers before SP1 my computer will now play games at the same speed of XP. Before I was unable to play games like Sonic Heros, just tested the game not a fan of it at all, Call of Duty 1 works flawlessly now and Elder Scrolls 3 Morrowind seems to run fine but with a few issues with DirectX 10.
2. Network sharing is hit or miss now. For some reason I cannot move some files between computer on my home network. Its not like the files are large most are simple text and HTML documents and for what ever reason I cannot move them. This is not alwalys the case but it happens almost 40% of the time.
3. Better responsiveness. The ol computer seems to run a little faster and I have less errors than before. A lot of the small bugs are gone but its still not perfect.
While still not perfect SP1 fixes a good bit of the issues I have had with Vista but its still not enough for me to keep as my primary OS on my laptop so Kubuntu 8.04 I will be seeing you next month.
4 Comments
cerberus
March 27th, 2008
at 11:09pm
Vista OS is a joke!
the oracle
March 28th, 2008
at 8:11am
Perhaps you are letting the smoothness (not to be overlooked) skew your judgement, because there is no way Vista can be as fast with games as XP, because there is yet another layer of garbage between the game and hardware.
If you look at ExtremeTech, you will see an interview with Alex St.John, the developer of DirectX, where he indicates ‘Vista blows!’ (his words).
sheldon cwinn
April 1st, 2008
at 8:53pm
Vista SP1. Not faster. Not better, The only good thing to be said… it is cheaper… andthere is more incentive to hack it than ever.
Go China, go!
jay
April 11th, 2008
at 8:52am
Vista is a disaster even (especially) after SP1. Faster network file copy? Well, since I installed SP1 I cannot turn network discovery on at all, so I won’t be able to tell. I can’t share anything. I can’t even map a network drive. Great improvement, don’t you think?