Vista SP1 decreased the graphic performance

I installed Service Pack 1 through Windows update today and it decreased my laptop performance a lot :(
For example my GPU and CPU had 68000 points in aquamark3 without SP1 but after install a made a test and got only 53000.
Later I removed SP1 and now everything works like before.
Anyone experienced the same?

Well this is pretty strange because the service pack 1 should do the opposite thing and increase performance, as you can read it often in the internet.
Have you reinstalled your graphic card driver too?
To be honest, I have not uses some benchmark tool to check if performance was changed, so I only got a Vista with integrated SP1.
One thing you could try is, to do a complete reinstallation of your operating system and after you installed Vista do a SP1 upgrade. Then install all drivers, tools and applications.

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Hello all!
May someone can help me to get that clarified ...
I have a MacMini with Thunderbolt connection. Latley I started to use RC Flight simulator which challenges the video card of my MacMini pretty much.
How about a Thunderbolt Display? Will TB just "substitute" my current HDMI-Connection or will some computing power be "outsourced" to the display? In other words: will the graphic performance of my MacMini improve using a TB-Display or does it stay the same because the build in video card is still "in charge"?
Thx for your help!

No question the Thunderbolt is without doubt a fantastic display, however to answer your question I'm personally experiencing a performance drop (see my very recent thread in this forum).
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Mybe this is not a permanent Thunderbolt Display problem/fault and might be resolved at some point by means of a software, display driver or display/thunderbolt/GPU firmware update. If that be the case then I'll know there's hope at the end of the tunnel. Understandably I wasn't expecting my MacBook Pro 17" early 2011 to perform miracles with it's graphics performance anyhow, but it's 1GB Graphics adapter isn't all that bad either and is a half decent card that can give acceptable results. But If you where to match the resolution of the Thunderbolt Display to that of the MacBook Pro for comparison for yourself and then run a 3D game like say 'Dirt 2', you will soon realise there are slight performance issues; unless of course I'm doing something wrong.
Here's hoping this may only be a temporary drawback for the Thunderbolt Display with 3D applications/gaming.

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I've done a fair bit of reading about why Vista SP1 does not show up for some people in Windows Update and for me its almost certainly down to the Sigma Tel audio drivers on my MacBook Pro (Feb 2006).
N.B. I have installed the latest BootCamp 2.1 32bit update and this did not change anything. Also I should mention this is a clean Vista install and I have not used a pre release version of SP1 either.
Apparently Sigma Tel sold off their audio division and is therefore no longer updating the software drivers. Microsoft have said they plan to address this driver incompatibility with their own update at some point. This was the response another user received from MS tech support:
"Kindly wait for further updates from microsoft which addresses the sigma audio driver compatibilty issues with service pack1."
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http://www.idt.com/?app=knowledgebase&contentID=4836&parentID=4836&parentPath=12 10-3638-3639-4836
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Does anyone have the definitive answer to this situation? It looks like I just need to wait a little longer, but I just wanted to check I've not missed something important.
Thanks

Hi Mark
Firstly, at the risk of being patronising, use winclone to image your BC partition. It works brilliantly.
Secondly, I have a late 2006 MBP (2.33GHz) with Vista on BC and running Fusion. MS Update did not offer the SP1 upgrade so I used the standalone installer. The sound works perfectly but I have found that there is a nasty bug in the video driver (X1600), which causes an immediate reboot if you try to adjust the screen brightness. It works fine so long as you don't touch the F1 and F2 keys. I used the BC systray app to asign the F keys to MS software rather than Mac hardware to avoid inadvertently tripping this fault.
If you don't mind this nasty little funny lurking on your system then SP1 is worth installing. For example Safari on Vista opens much quicker than on OS X 10.5.2
Vista SP1 works perfectly in Fusion.

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I have just started using windows vista and i have noticed
that when i create graphics using fireworks 8 that when i view them
either on dreamweaver 8 or just using the windows viewer that the
graphics and colours in the graphics look very blurry?? Does anyone
know why this should be? As i was creating graphics successfully
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Fireworks is not compatible with Aero. So, whenever you start
Fireworks,
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Aero. Obviously not a huge issue, but it is kind of annoying
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to flicker and lose all your pretty eye candy every time
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"Gordonuk" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:g6ithu$3eb$[email protected]..
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have just started using windows vista and i have
noticed that when i
> create
> graphics using fireworks 8 that when i view them either
on dreamweaver 8
> or
> just using the windows viewer that the graphics and
colours in the
> graphics
> look very blurry?? Does anyone know why this should be?
As i was creating
> graphics successfully before with fireworks 8 when i was
using windows xp
> and
> had none of these problems at all.
>
> Any advice would be most welcome.
>
> Many thanks,
> Gordon.
>

How is the graphics performance with the HD4000 GPU forced on

How folks....
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I always run with the integrated GPU on my Late 2011 MBP 15 (the GPU performance is adequate for me this way with the HD3000.)
Since there are a lot more pixels to drive on the rMBP, I wonder if the scrolling, screen switching, going to mission control and back, etc. suffers when using the integrated GPU only. I wonder if anyone is willing to give this a try? This might also fix the graphics corruptions problem you guys have been seeing when coming back from sleep with the rMBP.
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Get the best graphical performance

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After having reduced the images as possible, there are 2 or 3 uir files with a size of 20MB. All the uir files are then embedded into the executable files (that is more than 100MB large).
I've already considered other design schemes for loading images, but this one is the best for my application: the problem is that the graphical performance of CVI are quite bad (as already discussed in the past)
I've been trying to get the highest performance from CVI, but the improvements are not so easy.
I don't have any particular issue with tables: it was only an example where a quite simple workaround dramatically increases the graphical performance.
You could update all the values, then refresh the display rather than refreshing the display after each data update
How can I suspend the display refreshing in CVI? I know LabVIEW has a panel property, but I haven't found any CVI function to do the same. I call ProcessDrawEvents() to force the refresh, but how can I suspend it?
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when working on a Report layout, the poor graphic performance of DIAdem is a real problem for me.
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Greeting from Austin, TX.
Otmar D. Foehner
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DIAdem and Test Data Management
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"For an optimist the glass is half full, for a pessimist it's half empty, and for an engineer is twice bigger than necessary."

'Windows cannot install required files' error while installing Vista SP1

I'm installing Vista Client SP1 on my Macbook pro and getting the following error:
Windows cannot install required files. Make sure all files required for installation are available, and restart the installation.
Almost exactly as described in this KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930984/ except my error code is 0x80070017. I'm double-checked CRC on my dvd to ensure it's not corrupt. Also I've previously successfully installed Vista SP1 from the SAME DVD on a different Mac Leopard (desktop)
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Unfortunately, I cannot uninstall sp1, so do anybody know a hotfix for pro cards and vista sp1?
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I have a Qosmio G30 PQG32E notebook and can't upgrade to Vista SP1 because the Sigmatel driver (6.10.5462.0) is conflicting with the service pack.
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There are huge memory leaks in my case from the audio driver.
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I've run into a problem..
When I add an external monitor to my rMBP 15", the graphics performance is reduced by quite a bit. Example: when I play League of Legends on my built in monitor, it runs smoothly at 60fps with almost the highest graphic settings. But when I play it on the external monitor, with the lid closed, it's going at 30fps with the lowest graphic settings.
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I have the same hardware, a rMBP with the quad 2.6, 16 gigs of ram and the NVidia 650. I don't have the problems you are describing but I play different games - mostly borderlands, so perhaps that makes a difference.
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Adjust Graphics Performance on 2009 13" MBP

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[SOLVED] [QEMU] Improve graphics performance/resolution

Hi,
I use qemu's kvm feature and successfuly installed Windows 7 in it.
Everything works quite well except the graphics performance being very poor.
When I move the cursor it starts flickering ('lagging') and I can't set the resolution fitting my laptop screen with a native resolution of 1366x768. (So currently using 1024x768 in the VM)
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Is there a way to fix this??
Last edited by kanikuleet (2013-04-15 10:49:36)

Finally got it working now, performance is surprisingly good!!!
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