Vista SP2

**SapiensErus** · 05-28-09, 06:55 PM

Originally Posted by WileECyte

I installed SP2 and the latest nVidia drivers (185.85) and didn't see any gains at all.

Same... All my benchies are prety much identical to where they were at previously. Perhaps an install on my big rig (which I have not done yet) will show greater detail in the change (more score = more numbers to change).

But I did not expect performance increases... Just better stability.

Although my Vista has been pretty stable it had a bug when the wireless would try connect after sleeping/hibernating. It appears that has changed...which is good.

**jason_jinx** · 05-28-09, 06:57 PM

"My god, its full of stars"

**WileECyte** · 05-28-09, 07:47 PM

Originally Posted by SoySoldier

Same... All my benchies are prety much identical to where they were at previously. Perhaps an install on my big rig (which I have not done yet) will show greater detail in the change (more score = more numbers to change).

But I did not expect performance increases... Just better stability.

Although my Vista has been pretty stable it had a bug when the wireless would try connect after sleeping/hibernating. It appears that has changed...which is good.

No change is a good thing. A lot of times (XP SP2) they add extra overhead in service packs. Most of the things that tweak performance/compatibility are released between service packs (at least in Vista's case.)

**Madmax (Grape)** · 06-16-09, 06:54 PM

Wow, somehow I just noticed that they released service pack 2. I'm installing it right now.

**CivilWars** · 06-16-09, 07:59 PM

Ugh, my install is stuck at 3 of 3, and keeps rebooting. I gotta find my install disk and repair or some crap. Thanks Vista.

**Veovis** · 06-16-09, 08:02 PM

I think that happened to me at some point recently Civil, I downloaded a crap ton of updates and it kept going through the cycle like that so I somehow made it stop and then I only had like half the updates and had to re-download the rest. Sucks.

**CivilWars** · 06-16-09, 08:33 PM

Yeah, did a Google search, and most people say you just need to boot from the install disk, and go back to a restore point, so I will try that later or tomorrow.

**CivilWars** · 06-16-09, 08:47 PM

And wouldn't you know the DOS or whatever it loads in when it asks if you want to boot from CD/DVD does not recognize a USB keyboard, so lucky me. Hopefully I have an old POS KB around somewhere.