How is the Vista Serive Pack 1?

[mitchhamlin]

I was thinking about switching to Vista x64 Ultimate and then try out the SP1. But i'm feeling kind of sketchy about it. SP1 probably made everything worse? Or did it help? Fill me in!

Thanks!

 

[hclarkjr]

for me service pack 1 was nice update. it was running fine before SP1 but to me it was worth it.

 

[hclarkjr]

IMHO the trick to vista is lots of memory, if you try to skimp on the memory like you can with XP it is a POS

 

[mitchhamlin]

What changed? What did it fix?

 

[corkyg]

I have it on a lappy and a floortop - and it makes both run smoother and have faster boot/load times.

I call it a big plus.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: mitchhamlin
What changed? What did it fix?

HDD file transfer speeds for one. I've noticed a huge improvment...especially to USB HDDs.

 

[JBT]

I have a laptop with Vista. SP1 did help its speed quite a bit. Only problems I have with the laptop ( not necissarily a Vista issues but could be) is that sometimes when comming out of stand by the wireless does not work and I have to reboot. I havn't tried installing XP or anything to test this so it could just be a hardware problem. Other than that Vista works just fine.

 

[Shawn]

it didn't really make a difference to me. no noticeable performance enhancements, but vista was running fine before and is still running fine now. *shrug*

 

[harobikes333]

I've been trying to install SP1 now onto my Vista Home Premium but it won't install/ it keeps failing....:/

I hadn't had any trouble with vista until now that i'm trying to install SP1.

 

[Mem]

Originally posted by: harobikes333
I've been trying to install SP1 now onto my Vista Home Premium but it won't install/ it keeps failing....:/

I hadn't had any trouble with vista until now that i'm trying to install SP1.

Disabled anti-virus?

 

[Piuc2020]

Vista SP1 was pretty nice, network and disk performance increased noticeably.

NVIDIA SLI users should be greatly benefited from installing SP1.

 

[trainmaster5]

SP 1 won't install on both of my boxes because of my CL Audigy 4 sound cards.

 

[VinDSL]

Originally posted by: corkyg
I call it a big plus.

Dittos!

The flip side is, a lot of ppl are having major issues with SP1...

Proof: Unlimited installation and compatibility support is available at no charge until March 18, 2009. (2 years)

So, it's a crap shoot!

What you need to ask yourself is, "Am I feeling lucky today?"

 

[Mem]

Originally posted by: VinDSL

Originally posted by: corkyg
I call it a big plus.

Dittos!

The flip side is, a lot of ppl are having major issues with SP1...

Proof: Unlimited installation and compatibility support is available at no charge until March 18, 2009. (2 years)

So, it's a crap shoot!

What you need to ask yourself is, "Am I feeling lucky today?"

I remember recommending to a female friend to install SP2 on XP,well it trashed her PC,guess nothing new where service packs are concerned,you always get somebody with issues.

 

[Puffnstuff]

Initially sp1 trashed both of my 780i machines and only the x38 was able to install without drama. After a reinstall on the evga 780i machine, per ms instructions, I disabled all non ms services and drivers and then installed sp1. On my asus machine I wiped the mbr installed vista and then sp1 before installing any drivers or software and it worked.

 

[Griffinhart]

Originally posted by: VinDSL

Originally posted by: corkyg
I call it a big plus.

Dittos!

The flip side is, a lot of ppl are having major issues with SP1...

Proof: Unlimited installation and compatibility support is available at no charge until March 18, 2009. (2 years)

So, it's a crap shoot!

What you need to ask yourself is, "Am I feeling lucky today?"

How is MS supporting Service Packs proof of anything? MS has always done the same thing for service packs.

 

[mooseracing]

SP1 gave me a boost of memeory to 32GB from 3GB for free or sometimes it knocks me down to 16.3GB.

I like not having to pay for memory.

Originally posted by: hclarkjr
IMHO the trick to vista is lots of memory, if you try to skimp on the memory like you can with XP it is a POS

So I should have more than 3GB isntalled, when Vista barely uses 2GB most of the time?

 

[VinDSL]

Originally posted by: Griffinhart
How is MS supporting Service Packs proof of anything? MS has always done the same thing for service packs.

Exactly!

Vista SP1 is no different!

It's NOT a slam dunk in every case...

 

[Thor86]

32-bit Vista Ultimate on an older Centrino laptop with only 1GB of system memory.

Took over an hour to install SP1, and upon reboot, then the long-ass steps to update, and then the second reboot, it blue screened on me.

Restarted, nothing bad seems to have happened, but have not tested it further yet.

 

[bwatson283]

my work machine has it, 4gb ram and vista business takes FOREVER to shutdown!