(Official from MS) Increase ur Vista gaming performance to match XP

Windows Vista Performance Pack(KB938979):
Windows Vista Compatibility Pack(KB938194):


Windows Vista Performance Pack:

* You experience a long delay when you try to exit the Photos screen saver.
* A memory leak occurs when you use the Windows Energy screen saver.
* If User Account Control is disabled on the computer, you cannot install a network printer successfully. This problem occurs if the network printer is hosted by a Windows XP-based or a Windows Server 2003-based computer.
* When you write data to an AVI file by using the AVIStreamWrite function, the file header of the AVI file is corrupted.
* When you copy or move a large file, the "estimated time remaining" takes a long time to be calculated and displayed.
* After you resume the computer from hibernation, it takes a long time to display the logon screen.
* When you synchronize an offline file to a server, the offline file is corrupted.
* If you edit an image file that uses the RAW image format, data loss occurs in the image file.
* After you resume the computer from hibernation, the computer loses its default gateway address.
* Poor memory management performance occurs.

Windows Vista Compatibility Pack:

* The screen may go blank when you try to upgrade the video driver.
* The computer stops responding, and you receive a "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered" error message. You can restart the computer only by pressing the computer’s power button.
* The computer stops responding or restarts unexpectedly when you play video games or perform desktop operations.
* The Diagnostic Policy Service (DPS) stops responding when the computer is under heavy load or when very little memory is available. This problem prevents diagnostics from working.
* The screen goes blank after an external display device that is connected to the computer is turned off. For example, this problem may occur when a projector is turned off during a presentation.
* A computer that has NVIDIA G80 series graphic drivers installed stops responding.
* Visual appearance issues occur when you play graphics-intensive games.
* You experience poor playback quality when you play HD DVD disks or Blu-ray disks on a large monitor.
* Applications that load the Netcfgx.dll component exit unexpectedly.
* Windows Calendar exits unexpectedly after you create a new appointment, create a new task, and then restart the computer.
* Internet Connection Sharing stops responding after you upgrade a computer that is running Microsoft Windows XP to Windows Vista and then restart the computer.
* The Printer Spooler service stops unexpectedly.
* You receive a "Stop 0×0000009F" error when you put the computer to sleep while a Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) connection is active.


My friend tried that, he said there was noticeable increase in performance

 

Is this the official release or the leaked one?

EDIT: I'm blind. I'll try this out.

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=152511

 

I assume the performance pack increases game performance, am I correct?

 

yea someone let us know what kind of performance increase to expect i dont like having more than the required Microsoft material on my computer...

 

Why does the "Performance" patch look like a serious hotfix needed to get Vista to actually work.

 

Those so called "Performance" patches have slowed down my computer to a crawl! Whenever I do any file transfers (transfer a network file to my computer, transfer a 300Mb file between partitions, etc) Vista almost freezes because, I guess, it's using all it's resources to transfering the file. Everything becomes super sluggish and it forces me to wait till the file transfer is done. Performance pack my ass. Plus I still get frame stuttering every 3 seconds or so in games so MS didnt fix Toshiba's graphics stuttering issue.

 

Well I just installed the performance patch on my laptop and I got increased game performance and a higher 3dmark 06 score; from 3393 to 3580. It seems like these patches affect various systems very differently.

 

does anyone else have any benchmarks without and then with the hotfix installed? i just wanna see what kinda of difference it actually makes. i have it installed but i dont really see much of a difference. ty in advance.

 

My Half-Life 2 performance on my laptop went down slightly.

 

2-4 of the services that usually run are now removed and theres more performance now then ever. Big differences in Dynasty Warriors BB and F.E.A.R. and BF2. Plus that stupid Big File Transfer bug is now fixed. Download the patches.

 

The reason you are probably not seeing an increase in gaming performance is because the updates didn't do anything to change your GPU settings. The 8x00 are the only GPUs effected by the update, so 8x00 users are likely to see the greatest performance increase.

 

I don't think these patches really have anything to do with gaming performance, but more for overall system performance. The good news is, my RAM usage is down (idle after a restart now down to 30% from the old 40%). The bad news is: my gaming performance decreased slightly. 3DMark06 dropped 61 points (5311 -> 5250), and my average framerate in FEAR at 1920x1200 dropped from 57 to 53.

Edit: Nevermind about the drop in performance. I uninstalled the updates and my performance is still down. Must've been something else.

Edit 2: My problem was the "tweaks" that the Tweaks R Us drivers use - they don't go back to default when you change drivers. Reset everything with RivaTuner and I'm back to normal. The patches don't affect gaming performance in the slightest, but it does decrease my RAM usage, huzzah.

 

The drop is random.. try runnin 3dmark again... my scores hovers between 930 to 960.

 

Went from 48-50% ram usage from idle, to 36-38% idle. Better I guess, and it windows is alot snappier. Opening programs and such. Haven't tried gaming yet.

 

Sorry, but to say these updates are to increase gaming performance, especially to XP levels, is premature.
What is official from Microsoft, it clearly says "By applying this update, you can achieve better performance and responsiveness in various scenarios". So not everyone will benefit from these. But it's definitely a step in the right direction.

 

Haven't seen much of a performace increase. But CoH seems to run slightly smoother.

 

has anyone applied to the updates to Dell 1520? please let me know about it