<![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You? - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You? - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> "Vista: Slower now so you'll buy better hardware to match speeds with XP"

bobtheduck

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> I'll let you know soon as the damn thing lets me install it. Sad thing is i've liked vista thus far, but it keeps giving me this error that even when I search for it on the internet is like nowhere to be found. ><

Athest

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> edit: wow that made no sense at all! What I ment to say was that the people who were using Vista before SP1 probably didn't have any troubles otherwise they would've switched. So I doubt SP1 would cause much problems to those people.

Nikral

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> I'm pretty sure anyone who says that SP1 is working well was using Vista before. I bet only a few people will have switched from XP or whatever to try out SP1.

Nikral

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> It's working out good for me. No problems at all and a bit of a boost in performance.

Lstormy10

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> If you haven't installed SP1 on your Vista machine yet, there's no reason to wait. It finally fixes one of the most annoying things about Vista which was the copy/delete time calculation bug. I have noticed improvements in boot-up and shutdown times and general network stability. Now that SP1 is here, expect corporations to finally begin to migrate from XP.

Note: Most problems are due to poorly written applications and buggy drivers so always take a look to see if you have updated versions of either. (For the life of me, why can't software developers understand that their software will be used in a multi-user environments??)

Tepoz

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> @lifeinthefridge:

This may sound really strange, but maybe try having either 2 or 4 GB RAM. I thought I remember reading that Vista has issues with odd numbers of RAM. Maybe try taking one stick out rather than buying another as testing that is as cheap as free ... just a though ... could help ... then again, I may be making up BS.

cmcginn

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> I have not noticed any sort of improvement with anything , to be honest. Maybe the frame rates have improved by a couple of frames, but no noticeable difference can be seen. But to be fair, every game before SP1 played just fine with no visible frame lag.

Tha's on Core 2 duo 1.86
8800 GTS 320
3gb ram

jiganto

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> I have 2 identical machines, and they both run without 50 future mark points of each other, one running xp 64 and the other with vista 64 (no sp1). I'll have to go install sp1 when I get home and retest.
I bit the bullet and installed vista on one of my machines (I wanted to see the deal with dx10), and I have been pleased by it's performance as an OS (other than that network file transfer speed).
Guess I'll file vista hate with "psp has no games", and "ps3 has no games"

Derigor

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> @Tyber_Zann: If you're not seeing SP1 in the list of available updates (and it isn't yet being automatically pushed), you most likely have a device whose driver has a problem with SP1. There's a list at Microsoft support knowledge base article 948343.

Microsoft are providing free support for Vista SP1 until March 2009.

@Albanian_Killa: Microsoft released some statistics from the Online Crash Analysis tool ('Send Error Report' after a Windows XP crash). They state that 70% of all failures were traceable to third-party device drivers (e.g. ATI, nVidia). A further 10% were directly attributable to hardware faults. 15% of crash reports were too badly corrupted to be analyzable. Only 5% were due to Microsoft coding errors. The state of PC hardware is shockingly bad.

kruador

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> Service Pack 1 isn't working. Fucking thing won't install. M$ has shitty hardware and software, who would've known? Fucking 0x8004100a error. Anyone know the fix? The funny thing here is I just had a recovery 10 days ago on my computer. So soon that my shit is messed again M$?

M4A1 SD

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> There's no point to Vista.

Sure, it works, and now it's working better. Nevertheless, it eats more resources than XP, has very little in the way of additional non-aesthetic features, DX10 is still in its infancy and Windows 7 is slated for 2009/2010.

It's an interim release. Waste your money if you like, though, but I'm not seeing the 100$+ value.

Koztah

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> God, my hatred of Vista knows no bounds. Games run fine on my new Vista machine, but everything else is buggy and runs like crap. Vista randomly deleted half the songs in my iTunes library, and many of the remaining songs play with pops and crackles because Vista isn't playing nice with my sound card. The USB and SD/Compact Flash ports on the front of my computer only work about 50% of the time. Despite the fact that I have a quad-core with 3GB of RAM, programs take much longer to start up and perform basic tasks than they did with XP.

To sum up: I need to buy a new laptop soon, and it will definitely be a Mac. If I need to put Windows on it, I will install XP. Avoid Vista like the plague.

ach77

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> I love Vista, it's game performance is pretty much that of XP plus with added DX10 effects. Aero maybe a copy of OSX sure, but as I'm never ever going to use OSX I consider this a bonus. It looks nice, runs nice, stuff works now and I don't understand why everyone is still so anti Vista.

Maybe because it's still "cool" to hate Vista in the same way it's "cool" to continuously rattle on about the joys of Linux.

You lot continue to blabber on about XP, I'll enjoy my sexy transparent windows, ty.

Anaardvark

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> Built new PC, installed Vista, works great! That includes Crysis on high settings at 1680x1050 with a more than playable frame rate :) Can't commment in comparison to XP as I've just built this system which replaces my aging (4YO) internet only PC.

Spec:
`
Vista 64 SP1
Quad core Q6600 overclocked at 3Ghz (will OC further)
4GBs Corsair XMS2 ram
MSI Neo FR MOBO.
OC Palit 8800GT (bargain with good performance - will SLI as soon as cash allows).
Couple of large capacity SATA HDDs.

MAXLIFO

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> Well what the fuck? I don't even see SP1 installed on my PC.

Windows Update is a piece of shit! I know that SP1 was released periodically through various updates, but I don't even see anything official in my installed updates that says 'SP1' or anything. I'm running Ultimate 64 by the way.

Guess I can't get it if Windows Update isn't showing it. God damnit!

Tyber_Zann

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> My fiance just upgraded her laptop with it. It now randomly freezes on startup and we need to hold down the power button to restart it sometimes 4 or 5 times before we can get the computer to boot.

Sad thing is I'm one of the people that thought Vista wasn't as bad as people said it was now I think it's a horrible piece of crap.

Deekman

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> DDR1 ram still considered too slow by Vista. Halo2 pc, still chugs. 2gig ddr1. 3.33ghz processor, and 512mb video card. 200 gig harddrive. No excuses for this one in my opinion

ShaggyB

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> Recently installed Vista x64 Ultimate SP1 and everything is pretty good so far, installed steam and TF2 which seems to run better then XP SP2 (looks different becuase of DX10 also). As far as hard numbers ill leave that up to the gaming sites.
my rig:
3gh core 2 duo
8800GT
4gb ram
RAID 0 300gb+

the only minor hiccup I have is when playing games that resize the resolution it causes DreamScene to stick leaving a shitty looking boarder along the right and bottom side of my background.

Only time will truely tell if Vista gets a foot hold in the market, at this point its a pretty solid OS, theres just to many retarded internet haters that havent woken up.

usaevo8

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> I *finally* ended up downloading it manually on Monday; Windows Update never bothered to tell me about it. It still hasn't said anything on my wife's machine, either. But on mine, it seems OK. Games aren't any noticeably faster (Core2 Duo 6600 OC'd to 3.4GHz, 8800GT 512MB, Gigabyte P35-DS3R mobo), but at least it hasn't slowed anything down, either.

DorkimusPrime

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> The first thing the service pack did to me was to kill my sound.. But a quick re-installation of the sound-driver, and everything was back to normal again.

Tyrogoeth

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> Maybe Adobe can create a 64 bits version of Flash. Having 32 bits applications in a 64 bits OS ( Vista 64) is like have 16 bits applications in Window 95. You don't really want that crud infecting your ram.

Tei

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> Vista SP1 is running great. I like Vista better than XP.

Everyone needs to keep in mind that people complained about how slow and bloated XP was compared to Windows 2000 when it first came out too. Now everyone loves it. Give Vista a couple of years and some more updates and everyone will be using it.

subnet6

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> I've had Vista Ultimate 64-bit since day one and experienced performance drop from XP due to 8800 video drivers... once Nvidia corrected this my gaming performance on all games was equivilent if not better than XP, then again I have hardware which may be better utilized by the OS... but I haven't playd around with it enough to tell any increase in gaming performance with SP1 yet, nothing I was able to tell off the bat, like I said they were all running very well before...

I started having issues burning CD's using the built in burning software that comes with Vista but after installing SP1 it started working again, those have been my only issues...

Dual Core QX6800 Extreme
MSI 8800 GTX
Sound Blaster X-FI Plat
4Gigs Ram
10,000 RPM Raptors RAID

Yoshen

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> I don't know what difference SP1 makes because I got a new computer at the same time, but from dual booting XP and Vista, Vista in general loads stuff MUCH faster than XP. Photoshop loads in about four times quicker in Vista, thanks to Superfetch and 4GB of RAM. 64-bit is the future!

@exeprime: "About Vista again, what's really nice about it is the little details. The way it automatically selects the file name *without* the extension when you hit F2 [rename], the way you can set different volume levels for each application separately, etc."
Those are probably two of my favourite features, the file ext one saves loads of time and effort.

theadept

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> I have had no issues since my upgrade to SP1. I was one of the users who received the update early because of MS mistake (came through Windows update). File transfers are faster but not where they should be, no crashes...Crysis, COD4, CounterStrike and R6:Vegas are all running great! Are they running better??? Hard to tell.

I am running an AMD X2 6000, 4GB RAM, EVGA 8800GT OC and Vista Ultimate 64Bit

Rockywwf

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> I've not noticed one issue so far. Fable (yes, I'm replaying it for some reason) seems to load a bit faster, but that's about it.

PapaBear434

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> The biggest change I've noticed is much faster loading times in games.

I haven't tried World In Conflict since the install, but I will now if those gains are real!

Having said that Crysis doesn't seem any different (except the loading time).

Silent_Shark

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> SP1 significantly improved my system and made Halo 2 run just a bit smoother. Outside of gaming, my file operations seem to be performing faster as advertised.

(I've been running SP1 for over a month)

AryzonaBay

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> I've been running SP1 since 02/18 of this year. Absolutely no problems and only performance upgrades. Vista w/o SP1 is kinda of junky, but SP1 makes me content enough to never think of going back to XP.

omghi2u

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> Hmm, bit-tech.net comes to a different conclusion in that Vista SP1 generally made things a hair worse and only in a couple of oddly specific examples made things a hair better.

MisterSlimm

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> Totally incompatible with my system. My PC blue screened every time i tried to reboot booting until I went into safe mode and rolled back the SP1 install.

harlock_JDS

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> So far I had only one blue screen on my Vista desktop with SP1, both laptops have been running flawlessly since SP1. Also I was running for some time on the release candidat and it was working fine. The file copy on a Wifi are faster too.

FredQC

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> It's about damn time Vista users got this SP, though a lot of the issues it's supposed to address should have been resolved before the OS went out the door in the first place. That said I'll stick with XP for the time being.

Replica23

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> I'll be installing it on my uncle's crap laptop next time I do his upgrades.

CyberSkull

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> Switched to Vista 64 SP1 from XP a few weeks ago. Looks sweet, works fast enough, had a few little problems, which were more an issue of immature 64 bit drivers i think, but nothing i couldn't fix...

Speaking of which, i think that's one of the reasons i love PCs over consoles - i *love* screwing around with settings and tweaks and customizing every little detail about the way my machine works.

About Vista again, what's really nice about it is the little details. The way it automatically selects the file name *without* the extension when you hit F2 [rename], the way you can set different volume levels for each application separately, etc.

Oh, and one of the main reasons i switched, TopDesk [an Exposé clone for windows] used to hang on XP, which made it kinda useless. Works much better on Vista. Trivial but very relevant for me :D

exeprime

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> Vista gaming has been fine for me. I'm an overclocking enthusiast, so I really don't keep my computer at stock settings anymore. With the new RAM that came in yesterday, my computer is now more badass than ever. But still, before SP1 I had no problems and I still don't.

charlie.evans

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> Upgraded to SP1, and HO BOY! And by "ho boy", I mean it killed my sound driver like the little bastard red-headed step child no one really gave birth to.

Master Saji

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> Upgraded my gf's notebook to SP1. Works fine and is pretty stable. She has 2GB RAM and on boot has more than 1GB RAM spare. People who says Vista needs 3GB is talking horse shit.

JonC

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> Well apart from some minor completely screwing up my Video drivers which in turn fucked up my desktop resolutions so that I couldn't tell what the hell I was doing and taking 2 days to fix...no notable difference so far, but maybe that's because I'm not running quad sli 9800gx2 or something.

Bam345

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> Works better than before sp1.

TaMs

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> I tested SP1 since it became widely available, a couple of months before the official release, but I honestly didn't notice any improvement in the day-to-day - which is not surprising since I'd dutily downloaded all previous updates and patches.

SP1 didn't fix the big issues peoples have with Vista, it broke my sleep mode, and it didn't seem to make the system more stable. I'm sure some people are having a wonderful experience with it, but for my use (lots of stuff going on at the same time, many peripherals, etc.) Vista comes up short. If XP can do what I ask without a hitch, Vista should, too.

Last week, I upgraded my rig, and when the time came to install Windows on my nifty new Raptor HDD, I eventually switched back to XP.
It's not like I didn't give Vista a chance: I used it for over 10 months - didn't want to give up just because the thing had problems in the beginning. I figured I had to "learn" the system before forming an opinion... which I have now formed: while Vista is far from broken, almost everything it does, XP does better.
Which is too bad, because Vista introduces some interesting new things (besides the pwetty Aero interface).

Sadly, it just cannot match XP when it comes to stability, driver support (from lazy-ass hardware manufacturers), software compatibility, and, more generally and more importantly: peace of mind... which is absolutely crucial when I do 95% of my work on my computer.

I need to be able to trust my PC not to crash or fuck me up one way or another. That just wasn't the case with Vista.

Antiterra

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> Running great. SP1 improves file copying and network speeds pretty dramatically. My only complaint is that some older games refuse to run no matter the compatibility mode; but given the sheer amount of API changes from XP to Vista SP1, it's to be expected.

It's sad that I have to dual boot for some games, but it's equally sad when game makers don't recognize their product has become broken and don't fix it. Realistically, it's not Microsoft's job to ensure -every single thing- ever made continues to work; that's why there's thousands of software companies with their own developers. Kane and Lynch -still- hasn't been fixed to address a USB polling bug.

Start up and shutdown times have sped up -enormously- from SP1. I dare say my Vista SP1 laptop starts up faster than most XP machines I come into contact with.

Clockw0rk

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> works great for me, been running the RTM version that was "leaked" about a month ago. No noticeable different in gaming performance though, all the "gaming" related updates were rolled out long before SP1 came out.

SP1 is just a collection of updates that are already online. Some of them were optional updates you had to find on the microsoft site, but essentially they've all been around for a while. Couple new additions, but not much.

-A.

Android8675

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> All is well in Saucy Land. Actually there was a nice slight bump in WoW and overall performance. I'm quite glad I downloaded the superlarge sucker and waited an hour for it to install.

Seems worth it in the end.

MasterSauce

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> SP1 has certainly brought some more stability to my system. It had problems with both XP SP2 and Vista SP0, so I don't blame Vista for the old problems.

Less BSODs (none so far), no giant errors in the Event Viewer, and speedier boot times are wonderful. I really have to commend Microsoft on this one... but then again, I've always been a fan of Vista.

NobleArc, The Lazy Canadian

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> Been running Vista Ultimate 64 bit for 2 months now and installed SP1 the other day and honestly I don't see much of a difference.
Crysis is running maybe 5 fps higher if I am lucky, but I am playing the game in high quality (which most benchmarks haven't seen a huge difference) but I do notice I get about 30 - 50 fps more when I start turning stuff down or off like AA and resolution.
Other than the increase in fps not much else has changed I haven noticed that it does shut down a little faster than it did before, but since SP1 it is taking a little longer to start (sidebar is anyways, but that could be a seperate issue)

All in all I recommend people get used to Vista even though the next OS is slated for around 2010 or 2012 can't remember (really depends on how they want to release it, buggy all to hell or have it be a smooth transition) its a great OS once you get used to the little things that have changed

VinTank

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> I haven't noticed any difference, positive or negative, with SP1. Then again, I thought vista (from about a month after it officially hit stores, at least. The betas sucked) was on par with XP so I could just be unobservant, or lucky.

Luziphir

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> xp sucks so does vista, Win 98 rulez always was stable, got that extinct and got bush software in , i'd rather use ubuntu

ragfragger

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> Nothing to complain about here. I installed SP1 last week and my computer's been running faster and cooler. My system used to randomly freeze a lot and since I got the Pack it hasn't done it yet. Though I'll need a lot more time to make sure that that problem is gone since it was so random. One issue it didn't fix was how my USB mouse randomly auto scrolls to the upper left-hand corner of anything I highlight and the only way to stop it is to unplug, then replug it in. Of course, this only happens once a month at most, but that doesn't make it any less annoying.

Basic System Specs:
(Laptop)
Core 2 Duo T7300: 2.0Ghz, 4M L2 cache
2GB RAM
nVidea 8400GS
160GB HDD @ 5400 rpm

Blah8

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> So far everything is a lot faster for me. The only problem I can see is still with the USB transfer speeds. But Vista was built for the future, so by the time USB 3.0 launches later this year it will be remedied.

ronaldmonster

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> works great for me!

been using the beta, now the final release. no problems, only fixes.

Windows Home Premium SP1
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3200+ (2.0 GHz per core)
3 GB RAM (2x1GB 2x512MB)

nothing wrong.

elcapitaine

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> Vista is running spectacularly on both of my XP-booting computers.

Purple Dave

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> Personally I'm getting the same fps in WoW that i do when I boot on XP now. That was about a 10fps gain with the service pack. WoW is the only computer game I play at the moment so I'm a shitty sampling :P

Pornosaur

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> I've been running vista for awhile now, and the 64bit version at that. I've had absolutely 0 problems outside of adjusting to the black bar at the top instead of the blue one (which only took about a day). Performance has definitely improved in most areas, particularly file transfers. Game performance has also seen boosts of a moderate amount. I honestly do not get what all the hate is with vista. I got the supposedly spawn of satan 64bit, and i've actually been happier with it than I was with XP. Everything is smoother and more stable.

Bottom line is people are still harboring all this hatred for Microsoft which comes out anytime they are mentioned or have heard a few embellished horror stories from launch. Fact is that today, Vista is a good OS. Don't let the haters go and influence your opinion. If you've been wanting to get it but have been reluctant, now is the time go and get Vista. Given it still is a ram hog, but ram is cheap these days and you'l have what you need if you use your PC for gaming. People need to get over their microsoft hatred and just accept it. Vista is not nearly as bad as it's made out to be.

desterion

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> @schizogony: It won't show up until april. You have to download it manually from their website if you want it now.

It doesn't wanna install on my PC either.. It gives me an error that apparently many other people are also getting..

alextz

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> @lifeinthefridge: If only I had those specs...

For the last eight years, I've been tossing pieces into a Dimension 2400 until it was fully upgraded. That's right, fully upgraded; there was nothing more I could do to the computer. All PCI slots full, all IDE channels full, etc. It managed to take on FEAR at about half settings, and C&C3 at a little less than half. Of course, I spend the bulk of my PC gaming time with Trackmania United, C&C Generals, Diablo II, CivIV, and the XP-updated versions of Fallout 1 and 2. All of those ran like champs, so I saw no reason to upgrade.

But I finally caved and picked up an Acer with a 1.86 Athlon and 2 GB's of memory...and a goddamn PCIe slot so I can use a 7 series card. Why the upgrade? Fallout 3, of course. :)

I managed just fine with XP for such a long time, and I imagine I'll be okay with it moving forward, especially since I went from XP Home to XP Pro. Maybe someday I'll make the leap...but I'm sure it will be for DX10, and by then Vista will likely have another service pack out. That, or Microsoft will have another OS out. Either way, SP1 is something I'll likely never come into contact with.

Cogito

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> I've had Vista SP1 for a few weeks now. It's ok. Definately better, but not that much better. I haven't been moving around any big files lately, so what seems like the biggest fix in SP1 hasn't been tested by me.
The only games I play on my PC (The Orange Box) are definately running better.

Glad I upgraded to SP1, still a bit annoyed I didn't get a PC with XP.

penty85

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> Don't have Crysis yet, but gaming has always been fine on my Vista 64-bit machine. Haven't had much of a chance to look for specific performance changes with SP1, but definitely no new problems.

Struct09

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> It's working fine on my desktop though I haven't really noticed any improvements in frames yet. Maybe its just me.

Exia

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> @Spiderbait: the run feature is where it says start search. once you start typing in it the files start poppin up above the search once u see the file you want click and run.

JorgieX

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> Vista has always worked fine. In SP1, I just get less than half of the FPS on the exact same machine than when I boot into XP SP2.

Spiffmeister

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> @Bobby McPresscott: You do know that the stability of XP is not that great, so if their ultimate goal is REACHING THAT, they have a problem, right?

And, HELL NO, I'm not mac nut... Quite the opposite. I use an XP machine every day, and have since it released.

bobtheduck

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> @Antic791: oh yeah so let us all know what games you actually play on that weak imac....lol

JorgieX

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> @YouCanEatMe: Amen brother

Knight-Zero

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> All of my games have been running great with out SP1 running Crysis, GearsofWar in DirectX10 beutifully. Downloading as I type this. Will update in the morning when I test both games. running 2.4GHz dualCore, nvidia 8800 1Gb ram on grfx. 4GB memory ram and 2Ghz Intel Boost.

JorgieX

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> Vista works fine for me. Been playing orange box with no problems at all.

mindtoxicity

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> Prey better run smoothly after this...

gusiskirby

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> i miss XP
got vista preinstalled on my new PC. had no real problems with it, other than the damn slow copying thing,(tip: google and use nscopy )
but if i wasn't so lazy, i'd probably still using XP right now.
i don't see any new benefit to using vista over XP.
AT ALL.

bosintang

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> Sp1 is working fine, no noticeable difference though. Vista had always worked fine for me, and I upgraded!

MrAkash

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> Wrkin fine...

Rika Aiuchi is SeXXXy

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> I took the plunge and switch to an iMac last week. And I'm much happier because of it.

Antic791

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> Let me know when they offer Vista Lite, stripped down to the essentials(I consider XP Home to be about 80% essentials) and shows results of doing double as well as XP currently does.

Regardless, I'm keeping a hard copy of the Windows XP Home installation CD, th CD key, as much support guides as I can for it, and at least one of my computers will always be running it.

Codexx

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> Working fine so far. Though Portal frame rates took a dump. I can't tell if this is an issue with SP1, the nVidia Beta drivers I just installed, or the last update I got from Steam. -_-

@schizogony: To save bandwidth MS pushes its updates out to only a certain number of users at a time. You can either wait you turn or you can download SP1 directly for Microsoft's download center.

@Spiderbait: Search is the new Run. Just type the app name in there and it'll run.

@AlKusanagi: Its normal for a computer to lag a bit right after you boot it up, since you have to wait for all your startup apps to load. If you can't wait the minute or so for everything to finish loading up then I suggest you shut down some startup apps. msconfig is your friend ^_^

psycoking

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> I got Vista, but I can't remember if I got the SP. So if I did, I notice no difference. If I didn't, that explains a lot.

Polywhirl

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> My Vista computer died. It's over there. Being dead. Unrelated to Vista though, as I've tried to put two different OS on it on two different drives, swapping around SATA ports on the motherboard and everything...no dice.

And of course it's about three years newer (AKA brand new) than the computer I'm writing this on. *sigh*

Dragoonkin

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> too bad that ever since i've downloaded it explorer.exe and rundll32.exe have been crashing like mo fuggaz. Hopefully Service Pack 2 will be better!!!!!!!! but then again, doesnt matter for me because i'll have probably installed xp by then.

leimeisei

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> I plan on sticking with XP until 2010 when the new OS from Microsoft comes out and I can play Starcraft 2 on my new Microsoft surface :)

spartansCreed

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> So far, so good. I've been giving it a pretty good run for its money with Gears of War and Bioshock. Also playing a bit of Oblivion. Don't really notice any improvements over pre-SP1... but I didn't have any issues pre-SP1 anyway.

XsTatiC

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> @Bobby McPresscott:

"Indexed searching and all the dialog rewrites have made it the most user stable Windows ever"

Your opinion friend. I myself hate using Vista and so do my brothers, one of which had it pre-installed on his Dell because the option for XP cost more. I think the new menu scheme is horrible and isn't user-friendly at all compared to XP. Plus there's way too much shine on the OS, I really don't need my desktop to look like bubble-wrapped LEDs.

I feel the problem with Vista is that instead of making the OS more stable, they just added a shitload of extras onto the OS to make it look a bit more like OSX and to make it look nicer. Plus not to mention that the OS seems to alienate anyone who didn't just buy a computer and has 3+ gigs of ram. Just my take on it though.

NeoAkira

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> @AlKusanagi: Then bad news, you have a virus :S...

TOCATL

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> I'm using Vista and I think it works great. Only problems I've had are with finding things like the configuration for my microphone on the computer. I still haven't found the RUN button or any thing like that so that's a problem.

Spiderbait

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> @Bobby McPresscott:
alright. tell me when that is and THEN I'll upgrade. And I really want to play my stuff in DX10. I do. The increased system resources really bother me though and up til now there's been no reason to upgrade. Lower compatibility and decreased performance? No thanks. And as to your indexed searching, didn't ms just still that from apple?

Pikadrew

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> don't know, avoiding it like the plague.

ca$h

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> @Sentouki: Thats blasphemy territory there sir. Although its not as close as banning.

(or is it?)

deathsyth8888

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> I've never had any problems with Vista or SP1. Obviously it doesn't perform as well as XP but that's to be expected, no version of Windows performed as smoothly as the last one without upgrading your hardware. The difference is that Vista took 6 years after XP to come out so all of a sudden you had this huge leap in hardware requirements, whereas before new versions were being churned out every year or so which was a much more reasonable change.

Jeff Paine

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> Working fine here. The poo-pooer's of vista are just wrong. Sorry. :)

Cerif27

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> Windows Vista = Windows ME 2
If you know what i mean.

Lets wait and see what they will do with Windows7, but for now ill keep my XP sp2 + inspirat2. ([www.vista-inspirat.net])

neojam

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> It works nicely here.

Waka in Japan

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> It really doesn't matter how horrible or wonderful Vista had been at launch, the response would be exactly the same. People love to hate MS, and nothing will change that.

Vista is Microsoft fixing everything that has been wrong with Windows for years, as opposed to simply trying to trump XP's stability. Indexed searching and all the dialog rewrites have made it the most user stable Windows ever, but gamers are going to hate it until MS gets it to at least the same level of stability as XP.

Once that happens and people stop crying about it, you'll notice all the compliments about things like the ridiculously useful indexed searching bar start to flood out as they should have at launch.

Bobby McPresscott

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> The only diff I see is that it says I have 1.00 GB of RAM instead of 0.99 GB.

Besides that everything is the same.

Sailorcancer

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> Haven't tried it. My alloted ram for fusion doesn't allow it, and I personally only use XP when I need the compatibility. What's the point of using Vista when I find XP better for what I need it for. Not sure if my parents updated yet (does Vista make you?), or if they'll notice a difference in their facebook browsing. My boyfriend says it makes a difference, the biggest one being his webcam no longer works. But really, any improvement is an improvement, I just won't be noticing it.

Tiger-Fever

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> Boot-up takes longer to load everything. Other than that I see no differences at all.

Okari

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> As with all Windows operating systems, there is a "sweet spot" when it's the one and only good time to upgrade to the newest OS version. It's usually a few years after a new OS's debut, after they've worked out the bugs, which is coincidentally about the same time the truly annoying and often times very fatal bugs from the previous version start appearing en masse.

Needless to stay, I'm holding on to XP for now. I haven't been given a reason to upgrade; I've been given several not to.

Captain Impulse

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> XP SP3 releases mid-April and has shown to increase performance by 10%!

Nikongmer

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> @TheEngineer: Rocking the Goggles: Nah, 3GB is way sufficient, even for Vista x64, which uses more than x86.

Candlejack

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> @TOCATL: Did that yesterday and it still happened to me today.

AlKusanagi

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> It's fine, notice no real difference. Mouse is still a tad laggy but eh, it's vista. I'm not expecting anything great from it. It's used for light gaming at best and given the load of ram hog vista is, this patch seems to have made it slightly better

huginn

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> @lifeinthefridge:
Maybe up the RAM to 4 gigs? I hear Vista needs a lot of memory to run well.

In any case, I hated Vista so god damn much that I spent a grueling week downgrading to XP. I've got an HP laptop, and HP doesn't even offer drivers for my model. I had to to a dozen different sites to get the drivers I needed, and sometimes they weren't even for my specific model. Still runs twice as fast as it did on Vista.

TheEngineer

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> I have a Vista lappy and SP1 dosn't wanna show up at all. However WiC and a few other games run pretty good (for a laptop) on it already, wish I could see how good it gets with the patch... Come on MS!

@Sentouki: Random Comment ftw!

Scazza

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> The most advanced game I play on this thing is Half-Life 2. Never had problems, still don't.

However, my computer used to crash at least once a week. Since SP1, it hasn't crashed once. That's great.

Peryite

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> @t0yrobo: You mean the ad-campaign that claims that the Macbook Pro is the fastest laptop running Vista?
Yeah, I guess they really don't give a damn.

mescalineeyes

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> Fine. I only have basic games on my drive because all the games I want to play don't want to run on Vista (Pre-2000). As a PC it's just fine though.
@Sentouki: Okaaay then... I'm going to stand over *here* now... not that you should worry about anything falling from above, no!

Erwin

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> Linux anyone? ... anyone?

Naughty_Videos

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> But if Vista only *just about* reaches the level of XP's performance...why would I not use XP instead? I know very well of the advantages of Vista by the way. Just...they never did it for me.

Ah well, I've still got my Corporate Volume Licence, might install it on a partition in a few months.

@Sentouki: Fuck off and don't comment then. Hating nonsense is not something we need here.

Candlejack

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> Vista SP1 won't show up on my list of updates available. I probably have an incompatible driver.

schizogony

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> sp1 gave me my first non hardware related blue screen since win98

ermacaz

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> @AlKusanagi: erase temp files from your hdd...

TOCATL

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> You can have my XP when you pry it from my cold dead drive.

YouCanEatMe

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> O its great, my computer now randomly freezes and I must hold the power button to restart. Customer support is no help....

Specs

Windows Vista Ultimate Service Pack 1
Intel Quad Core Proccessor 2.4Ghz
3GB of ram
640 Gb HD

lifeinthefridge

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> Still on xp too. I'd probably be using vista, but apple can't bother to make proper drivers for it because it'd go against their ad campaign *grumble grumble

t0yrobo

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> @sUKi: win xp 32 bit get better fps in crysis than vista, vista 64 and win xp 64...

TOCATL

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> I use XP SP1, does that count?

hansamurai

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> I don't game on my PC, but it seems that just after booting my system I get severe lag sometimes. I'm talking about clicking an icon and having to wait 10 or more seconds for a response.

AlKusanagi

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> Its going to be tough or nearly impossible to take out winxp, there is still a lot of impromevemnt to see on win xp, it may survive vista...

TOCATL

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> I hate Luke Plunwhatever

Sentouki

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> I haven't had a single problem with it yet. My BFG 9600GC OC worked perfectly. To tell you the truth, if you have a computer that is fast enough to run Vista then you won't have many (if any) issues. 4GB ram, E6600 and that video card run Vista like a champ.

Balance_In_Life

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> not to play games but everyday stuff it runs as smooth as it did before. I may have to play Starcraft I and report back later lulz.

sUKi

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> @Taco Bell™: Same here.

ErskinPig

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> The stupid thing refuses to install for me. I've given up trying to install it.

Dopeski

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> Still with XP. Don't plan to switch until it becomes a necessity.

Taco Bell™

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> XP SP2 is working quite nicely, oh wait...

Roflcopter_Down: Wants you to follow HIM!

]]> <![CDATA[How's Vista SP1 Working Out For You?]]> Works perfectly fine. File copies and network transfers are faster. Otherwise no difference. That is to say, it's running swell, as it has been for the last 6 months!

Giolon

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