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Vista Performance, Compatibility and Reliability Packs are out

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.
 
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
 
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
 
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.


 
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?
 
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?
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I believe they will be in a couple of days.
 
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.
 
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?
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I believe they will be in a couple of days.
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I hope so. Being paranoid and all, I felt soft of antsy pulling them out of the air that way.

 
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.
 
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?
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I believe they will be in a couple of days.
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I hope so. Being paranoid and all, I felt soft of antsy pulling them out of the air that way.
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Agreed. Nothing major is broken for me, so I can wait.

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

 
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