Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 14th Feb 2008 17:44 UTC
eWeek takes a look at Vista's first service pack. "On the whole, Vista Service Pack 1, which becomes generally available in mid-March, is a fairly staid update with very little in the way of new features or cosmetic changes. SP1 consists of a rollup of Vista's first year of security and bug fixes, new support for a handful of emerging hardware and software standards, and an update to Vista's kernel and core systems that brings the operating system in line with Windows Server 2008, which was also recently released to manufacturing. SP1 also features a handful of performance improvements around file copy operations, which I was able to confirm during my tests in our lab." Concerning the file copy operations, Mark Russinovich has a detailed post about that one.
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RE[2]: summary: Still noticeably slower than XP SP2
by stestagg on Fri 15th Feb 2008 00:41
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RE[3]: summary: Still noticeably slower than XP SP2
by modmans2ndcoming on Fri 15th Feb 2008 02:05
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yes, same system same card most up-to-date drivers.
blanking is caused by windows XP relying on the application to draw its images, vista with aero enabled handles the redraws, thus no more blanking. Tearing is also dealt with because Vista is utilizing the 3d pipeline to deal with the windows (that is where the best performance is in a graphics card exists)
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When I work on a dual core PC with 2 gigs of dual channel DDR2 memory and XP still gets page tearing, I do not call it fast. Vista has a smooth UI and that is what I care about most of all, yes, file copy in vista was broken, but it got fixed and SP1 seems to speed it up.