Waylander Posted March 22, 2008 Report Share Posted March 22, 2008 I ran updates last night and first it gave me 3 minor ones [no SP1]. tried again after rebooting with those and it was there.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentandy Posted March 23, 2008 Report Share Posted March 23, 2008 [ QUOTE ] My HP lappy is running Vista and when I check for updates it says that there are none avaialable. Any ideas why it cant find the update? [/ QUOTE ] There's quite a lot of reasons why it doesn't appear as an automatic download: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948343 It didn't appear on my HP laptop so I had to download the full version at 460Mb Laptop seems to work a little quicker but it still hasn't fixed the slow file copy/move for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waylander Posted March 23, 2008 Report Share Posted March 23, 2008 are/were you completely up to date? I understand it doens't show unless all the other updates are installed as they preferred you to d/l the 77mb one not the 460mb version? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentandy Posted March 23, 2008 Report Share Posted March 23, 2008 Yep completely up to date, the only thing shown on Windows Update is Silverlight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gren Posted March 24, 2008 Report Share Posted March 24, 2008 Mine allowed me to download through Windows Update and yet had the Realtek driver issue so it isn't foolproof. Can report that after I sorted out the sound everything is working fine. No Noticeable improvements other than it pickup up my wireless net connection a lot quicker on bootup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fingermouse Posted March 24, 2008 Report Share Posted March 24, 2008 just updated from the 400mb one all working ok can`t see any differences tbh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac Posted March 24, 2008 Report Share Posted March 24, 2008 My biggest bug bear, file-copying, seems a lot better over the network - at least 30% better - bugger all difference locally though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waylander Posted March 24, 2008 Report Share Posted March 24, 2008 [ QUOTE ] No Noticeable improvements other than it pickup up my wireless net connection a lot quicker on bootup. [/ QUOTE ] I noticed that too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_B Posted March 24, 2008 Report Share Posted March 24, 2008 Just installed SP1 last night. No breakage that I know of yet. Half Life 2 runs without stuttering now, which is good, but Bioshock has gone back to "This game is currently unavailable" after I managed to get it running in a window. Overall a fairly painless install so far, and it only took about 25 mins start to end IIRC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waylander Posted March 24, 2008 Report Share Posted March 24, 2008 MS have really learned lessons from SP2 I reckon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gren Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 [ QUOTE ] Half Life 2 runs without stuttering now, which is good, [/ QUOTE ] Must try that. Don't remember any problems with HL2 on my Vista setup but it has been a few months since I've played it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_B Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 I tried the Lost Coast previously, and half way through, the AI stopped (which also seems to happen in Bioshock when I had that working briefly), so I need to retry that. The 3rd-party Minerva maps (excellent standalone episodic set) also worked pretty well, and the graphics quality was outstanding with every single option set to maximum, and the (bad) stutter I had prior to SP1 has gone, and it now seems very smooth and playable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 Incidentally, if any of you wonder why 'simply' copying a file is so hard, have a look here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_B Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 I saw that; interesting stuff. I wonder if there's much difference between Explorer copy and xcopy? When I had 450GB of files to get off a USB2 hard drive to my data array, I know which one looked like it would do the job before the end of time. It wasn't explorer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brabus Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 why hasn't the service pack popped up on my downloads yet? I went through the list (as linked earlier in the thread) but everything was fine. Annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gren Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 Did you try Windows Update in the start menu? Mine did not appear automatically but was there when I looked, if that makes any sense at all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brabus Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 This is what I have pending. Version of Vista Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brabus Posted March 26, 2008 Report Share Posted March 26, 2008 Any ideas guys and girl? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sufu Posted March 26, 2008 Report Share Posted March 26, 2008 It might be the drivers, if I remember rightly SP1 won't show up until you've got a full set of WHQL drivers installed. You could manually create a restore point and install those drivers that are pending, and see if it shows up after that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorburn Posted March 26, 2008 Report Share Posted March 26, 2008 [ QUOTE ] It might be the drivers, if I remember rightly SP1 won't show up until you've got a full set of WHQL drivers installed. You could manually create a restore point and install those drivers that are pending, and see if it shows up after that? [/ QUOTE ] Sounds possible, there is some issue with badly written driver INF files where the driver couldn't reinstall itself with SP1, so may be they've prevented you updating with problem drivers. That said, I just used the redistributable download to update, got it off MSDN over a month ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brabus Posted March 26, 2008 Report Share Posted March 26, 2008 [ QUOTE ] Sounds possible, there is some issue with badly written driver INF files where the driver couldn't reinstall itself with SP1, so may be they've prevented you updating with problem drivers. [/ QUOTE ] Got my laptop just over a week ago. Any possibility it could already be integrated in the installed version of Vista? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorburn Posted March 26, 2008 Report Share Posted March 26, 2008 Afraid not, System would show Copyright 2007 and say Service Pack 1 underneath. You should be able to find the redistributable release on the MS site or through torrents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waylander Posted March 26, 2008 Report Share Posted March 26, 2008 The alternative is obviously to just wait. Hardly an earth-shattering update particularly for a laptop unless you do loads of file copying. Rather that than run into problems with that driver which was preventing SP1 from being made available in the first place... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brabus Posted March 26, 2008 Report Share Posted March 26, 2008 [ QUOTE ] The alternative is obviously to just wait. Hardly an earth-shattering update particularly for a laptop unless you do loads of file copying. Rather that than run into problems with that driver which was preventing SP1 from being made available in the first place... [/ QUOTE ] Yeah, agree. Lappy is running lightening fast so not really fussed to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brabus Posted May 15, 2008 Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 So....finally the service pack popped up by itself yesterday and I installed it. Freed up 30 GB on the old hardrive and seems marginally quicker so no complaints. Odd why it took longer to arrive than for others on here though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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