Vista SP1 / XP SP3 RC Service Packs Available

Windows Vista SP1 x86 RC: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...ng=en#filelist

Windows Vista SP1 x64 RC: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

Windows XP SP3 RC: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en



(I know there was a thread on SP3, although I didn't find one on Vista SP1 so I thought I'd post both.)

Have you installed SP3 yet to check it out, I noticed its 110mbs bigger than SP2.

One question. Isn't RC a beta getting ready for a release?

I don't have XP so I can't try it out, although I'm going to slipstream it into my XP SP 2 install CD and see if that works, because I don't have XP drivers for the RAID array.

110MB seems right, since SP3 includes all the fixes included in SP2, plus all the ones that came out since then.

Yes, it's a release candidate. It's not the final version, although it most likely will be.


EDIT: What I'm not sure about though, is that Vista SP1 for the 32-Bit OS is only 436MB, but the 64 bit version is 733MB...

Yeap including the updates and fixes since SP2 at a 110mbs doesnt leave much. I heard to start with SP3 was suppost to have the side bar better firewall and some other stuff that got pulled. I think it funny that microsoft got itself in a situation where there competing with itself XP vs. Vista

it is pretty funny. Now I'm installing Vista SP1 x64 now, so I'll post back if theres any game increase or performance increase.

Does Vista SP1 include all the nVidia related hotfixes?

Well, here are a few benchmarks. The first one is before, and the second one is after.

I'm not sure about anyone else who has tried this, but I've had a few issues after installing the SP. The only one i've noticed so far is that a lot of processes are failing and causing errors, which also causes issues with networking.

That scares me. I'm going to wait until the final release comes out, I really don't want issues. I really do like how performance has increased though, it makes me feel better about Vista being worth getting.