Re: Vista SP1?

If you have VIsta, the Service Pack is almost a necessity.
It improved
file copying in some cases by as much as 80%. This is,
however, Still
slower than what the file copying speeds on Windows XP are.

This also includes all the fixes including all the graphics
fixes for
Nvidia and ATI Cards under Vista, which you probably would
only notice
if you played games on Vista after playing them on XP and
saw the poor
framerates.

And to think, all this pain for Microsoft and their users
was caused
by kow towing to the RIAA and the MPAA who wanted numerous
security
and DRM solutions built into the OS.
tsk tsk tsk.

Apple apparently told them where to stick it, since Leopard
wasn't
hamstrung by any of this nonsense.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vivec [mailto:gel214thgmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 5:01 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: Vista SP1?
> 
> If you have VIsta, the Service Pack is almost a
necessity. It improved
> file copying in some cases by as much as 80%. This is,
however, Still
> slower than what the file copying speeds on Windows XP
are.

Do have any information on this?

I read a few things in usability circles about the poor UI
implementation of
file copy under Vista - the point in that area was that
although file copies
were actually about the same speed apparent speed (due to
the UI changes)
was slower.

One of my very favorite (really, it's awesome) blogs had a
nice piece about
it:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001058.html

The graph in that article is amazing... I'm considering
getting it done as a
poster.  A testament to human perception!

Tests are all over the map - from no difference (my machine,
for example,
showed essentially no difference between XP and Vista file
copies) to some
difference, but I've not seen anything that shows 80% (or
anything that
shows XP as 80% faster in the first place).

> This also includes all the fixes including all the
graphics fixes for
> Nvidia and ATI Cards under Vista, which you probably
would only notice
> if you played games on Vista after playing them on XP
and saw the poor
> framerates.

I never did see "poor" framerates compared to
XP... perhaps a 1-3% drop
which went away (for me) with the first major update from
nVidia.

The only game that's ever really chugged on my machine (at
my native LCD
resolution, which is my target) is "Crysis"...
luckily that just wasn't such
a great game.  ;^)

> And to think, all this pain for Microsoft and their
users was caused
> by kow towing to the RIAA and the MPAA who wanted
numerous security
> and DRM solutions built into the OS.

The only one that I know of was HDCP... and Apple has that
as well (they
really have no choice: to play new HD content you have to
support it).  Are
there others?

Jim Davis




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