By Luke Plunkett, 9:20 PM on Tue Mar 25 2008, 5,373 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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Hey, PC gamers, how's Vista's first service pack treating you? Some people are saying all kinds of nasty things about it, but then nasty people on the internet are so much louder than nice people on the internet, so they might just be full of shit. Especially when you consider that many tech sites are now reporting the service pack brings big performance gains, with ExtremeTech giving the example of framerate increases of up to 20 frames-per-second in World in Conflict and up to 46 frames-per-second in Crysis. Those yet to make the jump shouldn't leave XP behind just yet, however: most benchmarking results are showing that these improvements only serve to bring Vista...almost level with XP on performance. Good news for Vista gamers, then, but for XP users, carry on, it's business as usual.
New Vista Service Pack Boosts Gaming Performance [Shacknews] [Pic]