Vista Performance, Compatibility and Reliability Packs are out

[Noema]

Hope this isn't a repost

They aren't on Windows Update yet but can be officially downloaded from microsoft.com as of today:


Performance and Reliability

Compatibility and Reliability

 

[nerp]

Nice.

 

[nerp]

Installed them on my laptop and desktop. Noticable improvements all around. Quite impressive. I gained FPS in CS:S, even.

Very, very sweet. Tighter, faster, smoother.

 

[imported_dareino]

I personally have'nt had any issues w/either the 32bit or the 64 bit version of Vista. Anyways after installing this to my 32bit laptop I really have'nt seen any difference (yet). Any test that someone can shoot my way to see how these fixes work?

thxs

dareino

 

[Noema]

These are the main fixes from what I could gather from the notes:

-Explorer's file move / copy issues with slowness
-Explorer taking too long to calculate remaining time to move / copy a file (I can confirm this one works at least; it's now instantaneous. Sometimes it'd take so long the copying would be done by the time it showed the estimate)
-Sleep and Hibernate not working correctly
-Some video card issues
-Poor memory management performance
-Printers refusing to install with UAC disabled
-TCP/IP not working after resuming from hibernation
-Offline file synchronization not working
-Reported Printer spooling bug

 

[mechBgon]

sweet thanks Noema!

 

[n7]

Thanx.

Installing them as i type.

 

[Mem]

Noema thx for the info,installed ok on my Vista x64,I even installed them via Firefox using Microsoft's WGAPluginInstall.exe. for Firefox browser.

 

[Noema]

You're welcome guys

And I also installed via Firefox; the plug-in works great.

 

[gizbug]

Can't seem to find WGAPluginInstall plugin. All the links on google don't have it, odd

 

[gizbug]

found it, nm

 

[HardWarrior]

I've had both packs loaded for a couple of days. I can't say that I notice an real difference. Does anyone have an idea about why they weren't available via auto-update?

 

[manowar821]

Friggen marked!

 

[dds14u]

Originally posted by: HardWarrior
I've had both packs loaded for a couple of days. I can't say that I notice an real difference. Does anyone have an idea about why they weren't available via auto-update?

I believe they will be in a couple of days.

 

[dds14u]

After I installed the Performance one, it didn't fix the wake up from sleep bug for me =\.

The bug keeps the screen blank when resuming from sleep (and apparently only w/ Nvidia cards)...guess I'll wait on Nvidia then.

 

[HardWarrior]

Originally posted by: dds14u

Originally posted by: HardWarrior
I've had both packs loaded for a couple of days. I can't say that I notice an real difference. Does anyone have an idea about why they weren't available via auto-update?

I believe they will be in a couple of days.

I hope so. Being paranoid and all, I felt soft of antsy pulling them out of the air that way.

 

[TheSpy007]

Does rivatuner work after these packs on vista 64 bit?

 

[Noema]

I doubt it; the reason RivaTuner doesn't work in Vista 64-bit is because Vista 64-bit requires all of its drivers to be WHQL signed and RivaTuner doesn't provide that.

RivaTuner will work in Vista64 if one disables the requirement for signed drivers; that's not recommended however.

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: HardWarrior

Originally posted by: dds14u

Originally posted by: HardWarrior
I've had both packs loaded for a couple of days. I can't say that I notice an real difference. Does anyone have an idea about why they weren't available via auto-update?

I believe they will be in a couple of days.

I hope so. Being paranoid and all, I felt soft of antsy pulling them out of the air that way.

Agreed. Nothing major is broken for me, so I can wait.

KT

 

[HardWarrior]

It's good to see that I'm not the only one who saw this form of distribution as a tad too oldskool!

 

[videopho]

Yeah installed and reboot fine but then Rivatuner 2.02 is hosed saying its driver not installed.
Vista64 asks me to reboot to disable the signed driver which I did, to no prevail.
WTF's going on?

 

[n7]

Assuming this hasn't been changed in the patches, you'll need to re-disable driver signing for Rivatuner to function.


Type "cmd" in the Search Box included in the Vista Start menu.
Next, press Ctrl + Shift + Enter to open a command prompt window with elevated privileges.
Now enter bcdedit /set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS in order to disable Driver Signing and reboot.

 

[Cutthroat]

I installed this when it was considered beta and my reliability monitor stopped working. I loaded an image from before I installed the beta and the reliability monitor worked again. I wasn't positive it was due to these updates because I had installed a couple of other things.

Yesterday I installed the updates again from the links above, and I made sure not to install anything else for the entire day. Today my reliability monitor is not updated again.

I'm not sure if I'll go back to the image I created before I installed or force the reliability monitor to reset.

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: n7
Assuming this hasn't been changed in the patches, you'll need to re-disable driver signing for Rivatuner to function.


Type "cmd" in the Search Box included in the Vista Start menu.
Next, press Ctrl + Shift + Enter to open a command prompt window with elevated privileges.
Now enter bcdedit /set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS in order to disable Driver Signing and reboot.

I have read somewhere else that one of this packs eliminates the DDISABLE option entirely.

 

[MarxMarvelous]

Originally posted by: dds14u
After I installed the Performance one, it didn't fix the wake up from sleep bug for me =\.

The bug keeps the screen blank when resuming from sleep (and apparently only w/ Nvidia cards)...guess I'll wait on Nvidia then.

That's probably because the sleep fix is in the Compatibility pack (938194)

I installed both yesterday and my black screen problem is now gone w/ Geforce 8500GT + Vista x64.