Performance & Reliability Updates, Final.

[TouGe]

Microsoft has released the final versions of there performance and reliability updates.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938979
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938194

I hope I am not making a double post here.

[Truckchase!]

To address the rumors that these patches could speed up games, I did some testing.

Warning: Long post. Skip to the end for conclusion.

I installed both, here are my performance results using my custom script.

BEFORE PATCHING:

Benchmark Log File created on 8/7/2007 at 1:15:34 AM

Number of cores 2
Specification Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz
Core Stepping B2
Core Speed 3488.0 MHz (8.0 x 436.0 MHz)
Stock frequency 2400 MHz
L2 cache 4096 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64-byte line size

Northbridge Intel P35/G33/G31 rev. A2

Memory Size 4096 MBytes
Memory Frequency 545.0 MHz (4:5)
CAS# 5.0
RAS# to CAS# 5
RAS# Precharge 5
Cycle Time (tRAS) 15

DMI BIOS
date 05/25/2007
Motherboard Info
vendor ASUSTeK Computer INC.
model P5K Deluxe
Windows Version Microsoft Windows Vista (6.0) Business Edition (Build 6000)
DirectX Version 10.0

Video:ATI @ x1900xtx/729 1818 Catalyst 7.7
Audio:Sound Blaster X-fi Fatal1ty

Tests performed at 1024x768x32, 4x FSAA & 16x Anistropic (Quality setting)
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Results for Quake2:
Result 1:588.0
Result 2:589.0
Result 3:586.1
Result 4:589.5
AVERAGE FPS: 588.15
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Results for Quake3:
Result 1:449.2
Result 2:449.9
Result 3:448.4
Result 4:447.1
AVERAGE FPS: 448.65
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Results for UT2004FlyBy:
Result 1:424.8
Result 2:427.5
Result 3:425.9
Result 4:427.9
AVERAGE FPS: 426.52
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Results for UT2004Botmatch:
Result 1:83.80
Result 2:83.91
Result 3:83.79
AVERAGE FPS: 83.83
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Results for Comanche4:
Result 1:102.9
Result 2:106.7
Result 3:106.7
AVERAGE FPS: 105.43
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Results for FarCry:
Result 1:173.2
Result 2:174.2
Result 3:174.2
AVERAGE FPS: 173.87
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Results for HalfLife2:
Result 1:235.6
Result 2:237.0
Result 3:236.2
AVERAGE FPS: 236.27
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Results for SeriousSam2:
Result 1:170.4
Result 2:170.5
Result 3:170.2
AVERAGE FPS: 170.37
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Results for Doom3:
Result 1:157.3
Result 2:157.2
Result 3:157.3
AVERAGE FPS: 157.27
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Results for HalfLife2_Lost_Coast:
Result 1:123.9
Result 2:124.5
Result 3:124.8
AVERAGE FPS: 124.4
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Results for Quake4:
Result 1:102.47
Result 2:102.54
AVERAGE FPS: 102.5
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Results for SplinterCell_Chaos_Theory: (Note that AA settings do not apply to Splinter Cell + HDR)
Result 1:132.7
Result 2:132.7
Result 3:132.7
AVERAGE FPS: 132.7
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Results for Supreme_Commander:
Result 1:46.695
Result 2:47.012
AVERAGE FPS: 46.85
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Results for Company_of_Heroes_DX9:
Result 1:125.1
AVERAGE FPS: 125.1
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Benchmarks finished at 2:10:35 AM

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GRINGOMARKtm=91
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AFTER PATCHING:

Benchmark Log File created on 8/8/2007 at 6:21:43 PM

Number of cores 2
Specification Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz
Core Stepping B2
Core Speed 3488.3 MHz (8.0 x 436.0 MHz)
Stock frequency 2400 MHz
L2 cache 4096 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64-byte line size

Northbridge Intel P35/G33/G31 rev. A2

Memory Size 4096 MBytes
Memory Frequency 545.0 MHz (4:5)
CAS# 5.0
RAS# to CAS# 5
RAS# Precharge 5
Cycle Time (tRAS) 15

DMI BIOS
date 05/25/2007
Motherboard Info
vendor ASUSTeK Computer INC.
model P5K Deluxe
Windows Version Microsoft Windows Vista (6.0) Business Edition (Build 6000)
DirectX Version 10.0

Video:ATI @ x1900xtx/729 1818 Catalyst 7.7
Audio:Sound Blaster X-fi Fatal1ty

Tests performed at 1024x768x32, 4x FSAA & 16x Anistropic (Quality setting)
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Results for Quake2:
Result 1:583.7
Result 2:584.1
Result 3:588.2
Result 4:585.9
AVERAGE FPS: 585.48
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Results for Quake3:
Result 1:455.4
Result 2:452.1
Result 3:452.9
AVERAGE FPS: 453.47
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Results for UT2004FlyBy:
Result 1:426.4
Result 2:424.8
Result 3:425.9
Result 4:426.5
AVERAGE FPS: 425.9
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Results for UT2004Botmatch:
Result 1:83.60
Result 2:83.72
Result 3:84.17
AVERAGE FPS: 83.83
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Results for Comanche4:
Result 1:103.5
Result 2:106.9
Result 3:106.7
AVERAGE FPS: 105.7
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Results for FarCry:
Result 1:177.0
Result 2:175.8
Result 3:175.8
AVERAGE FPS: 176.2
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Results for HalfLife2:
Result 1:236.6
Result 2:237.0
Result 3:236.9
AVERAGE FPS: 236.83
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Results for SeriousSam2:
Result 1:170.4
Result 2:170.5
Result 3:170.3
AVERAGE FPS: 170.4
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Results for Doom3:
Result 1:157.2
Result 2:157.3
Result 3:157.4
AVERAGE FPS: 157.3
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Results for HalfLife2_Lost_Coast:
Result 1:124.1
Result 2:124.7
Result 3:124.7
AVERAGE FPS: 124.5
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Results for Quake4:
Result 1:102.51
Result 2:102.55
AVERAGE FPS: 102.53
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Results for SplinterCell_Chaos_Theory: (Note that AA settings do not apply to Splinter Cell + HDR)
Result 1:132.6
Result 2:132.7
Result 3:132.7
AVERAGE FPS: 132.67
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Results for Supreme_Commander:
Result 1:46.509
Result 2:47.666
AVERAGE FPS: 47.09
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Results for Company_of_Heroes_DX9:
Result 1:123.8
AVERAGE FPS: 123.8
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Benchmarks finished at 7:14:46 PM

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GRINGOMARKtm=91
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Conclusion: No gaming differences; still overall 9% slower than XP in my testing. I didn't test disk or network.

[TV Addict#2]

after installing these in vista x64 the command line execution to disable driver sign checks no longer works for me

[Plywood99]

after installing these in vista x64 the command line execution to disable driver sign checks no longer works for me

Yup, MS screwed us hard on the driver sign checks. I currently have not found a way to disable driver sign checks permanently. Only thing you can do is f8 each boot...


Ply

[p47]

is there any differences between this final version and beta version before??