Vista? Has fixes? Get out of town!
Posted 08/08/07 at 02:40:00 PM by David Murphy
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After my morning cup of coffee (Mountain Dew), there's nothing I enjoy more than applying some sweet, sweet patch paste to an otherwise finicky operating system. Hence why I was happy as a spider pig on a ceiling this morning when I noticed the "new Vista patch omg" story on my Google RSS feed. Props to Ars Technica for the catch. Here are the details.
There are two patches. One's called "Performance and Reliability," and the other is called "Compatibility and Reliability." Like a bowl of Raisin Bran, that's two scoops of reliability for your vitamin-deficient Vista. These will surely be rolled out to automatic updates sometime in the near future, but early-adopters can now get their first chops at defeating a number of Vista's unruly bugs. That includes my favorite, the "ETA: 8.51 years" issue, which plagues those of us who like to transfer freakin'-huge files.
Other fun bugs that are getting the big whack include the ol' "a computer that has NVIDIA G80 series graphic drivers installed stops responding" bundle of joy, the ever-generic, "visual appearance issues occur when you play graphics-intensive games" problem, and the ungodly critical "you receive a "Stop 0x0000009F" error when you put the computer to sleep while a Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) connection is active." Take that!
The performance patch fixes the aforementioned "Why is Vista telling me it's taking so long to transfer a file" issue, as well as an untimely memory leak in the Energy screen saver (one of my personal favorites), and a few hibernation-resuming peculiarities.
If you ask me, I think that these two patches should be mutually exclusive. You know, like picking a class in an RPG or something. Once you identify yourself as a "performance" user, you should be stuck on that road and/or patch-cycle until you reinstall the OS. Same goes for you, fans of compatibility. Thankfully, I don't work at Microsoft, so all Vista users can install both patches and relish in the joys that pre-patch-day upgrading bring.
I installed the patches at home this morning, but didn't have enough time to tinker around with Vista to see if anything's better (or, as is sometimes the case, horribly worse). Will's been having a little trouble getting the patches to install in the first place, so if you're in his boat, it might behoove you to wait for the automatic update version. Still, if you can, fire 'em up! Let me know if it breaks your system! Inquiring minds want to know!
Must...suppress urge...to smack down...fanboys
Submitted by yagisencho on Fri, 08/10/2007 - 1:33pm
I can confirm: The file operations wart has been successfully lazed from Vista's face.
I'm running 64-bit Vista Ultimate with nary a driver, performance, or stability issue. All is right with the world.
Submitted by djremix71 on Thu, 08/09/2007 - 11:20pm
Okay, I like linux along with the rest of them, but this is neither the time or the place to list linux games.
I just installed the patch. It make my system brand new. I hated vista for it's crapshoot load times and slower than my grandma in a wheelchair file transfers. Now, it goes faster than speedy gonzales. Snatch these things up as fast as you can.
Submitted by Jeffery on Fri, 08/10/2007 - 6:23am
I was half heartedly joking with the linux games comment; in fact, only yesterday did I natively install UT2004 on my ubuntu machine. I was impressed at how well it ran; ubuntu must manage system resources better than windows, as the game was much smoother.
Concerning the updates, I just installed them. The system is definitely more responsive than before.
Not impressed, but I still love Lx myself.
Submitted by JC's Demon Slayer on Thu, 08/09/2007 - 6:05pm
All I see, is that u r watching SW: Ep. 3, and playing TRON. Where's the multiple-games-at-the-same-time thing?
Submitted by dave23d on Thu, 08/09/2007 - 7:20pm
The second game (Frozzen Bubble)is on the side of SW: EP.3.
Love Linux and 3D Linux Games :)
Submitted by Mr E on Thu, 08/09/2007 - 2:42pm
That's like getting in your car, starting it up, and driving over a mosquito to kill it. No Windows PC is complete without a copy of Irfanview for simple photo viewing/altering/resizing duties. While you're at it, check out Paint.net for the more advanced stuff including layers and advanced selections.
Mr. E: actually, I use
Submitted by TheMurph on Fri, 08/10/2007 - 10:03am
Mr. E:
actually, I use photoshop for a ton of work stuff. Believe me, if I was just resizing a picture, I'd fire up Gimp. :D
Submitted by dave23d on Thu, 08/09/2007 - 4:08am
Linux is just too good. Gotta love the Linux 3D deskop effects.
Hasta la Vista baby.
Love Linux and Games
Linux is so great!
Submitted by webgrunt on Thu, 08/09/2007 - 2:45pm
I have been wanting to go Linux for some time. Unfortunately, pretty much every program I like is Windows-only.
Linux is improving very fast, though. I estimate that in two or three years, there will be some distros that are as easy to run as Windows. When that time comes, people will swarm to Linux. Screw M$ with their $200-400 pricing for Vista!
Submitted by Jeffery on Thu, 08/09/2007 - 1:57pm
And exactly which "games" are you playing on your linux distro? ;)
Submitted by dave23d on Thu, 08/09/2007 - 9:46pm
This is a very short list, but gives you a good idea
Torcs
Homeworld
Homeworld2
Unreal
UT
UT2003
UT2004
Quake
Quake 3
Quake 4
Doom
Doom 2
Doom 3
Frozzen Bubble
GLTron
Half Life
Half Life 2
ConterStrike 2
All Steam games..
Alien vs Preditor
A lot of old DOS games too..The list does go on, but I will take up a lot of space. But you get an idea from this short list.
I can play alot of them at the same time too. Like on this picture:-
http://home.iprimus.com.au/pbennison/Linux23dragon/Daves-Linux-Style3.pngLove Linux and 3D Linux Games :)
Increase
Submitted by Caboose on Wed, 08/08/2007 - 7:59pm
Just installed both patches, and I have noticed a performance increase. Even with general loading of things.
-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-
Submitted by starky75 on Wed, 08/08/2007 - 12:11pm
Downloaded them this afternoon and both were installed. To delete or transfer a file is down quickly now. Before to delete a 1 GB file or larger would take forever to transfer to the recycle bin along with deleting them from the recycle bin. Also, to transfer a folder from one drive to another, even on a different IDE or SATA channel is now fast. Before even though I would transfer files from an IDE to a SATA drive, it would take what would seem forever to complete. Now, however, about the same as Windows XP. I highly recommend everyone to download them as soon as possible as the overall feel of Vista now seems faster in opening apps and just general use.
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