Zappy
02-27-2009, 02:56 PM
Those of you running Vista may be interested in this. SP2 RC was released a few days ago:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=software_development&articleId=9128625&taxonomyId=63&intsrc=kc_top
If you have MSDN or Technet access, you can download it immediately, otherwise, you'll have to wait til next week.
I'm a software 5 boxer running on a pretty serious machine (X58, i7 965, 12 gigs of ram, trisli GTX280s, RAID 5, Dell 30", etc). Before you bark about trisli, I know that WOW doesn't utilize SLI, but there are plenty of other games I do play. :)
Last night, I installed SP2 on Vista64 and noticed some very nice improvements. For reference, I have all graphics maxed except shadows.
Before I was getting ~ 25-30 FPS in dalaran and last night I was typically around 40-45FPS. For whatever reason, Dragonblight always seemed to be one of the worst zones for me as I would see around 20FPS there. After SP2, I was seeing on average 50-60FPS.
I'm curious if anybody else has installed SP2 and noticed any differences.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=software_development&articleId=9128625&taxonomyId=63&intsrc=kc_top
If you have MSDN or Technet access, you can download it immediately, otherwise, you'll have to wait til next week.
I'm a software 5 boxer running on a pretty serious machine (X58, i7 965, 12 gigs of ram, trisli GTX280s, RAID 5, Dell 30", etc). Before you bark about trisli, I know that WOW doesn't utilize SLI, but there are plenty of other games I do play. :)
Last night, I installed SP2 on Vista64 and noticed some very nice improvements. For reference, I have all graphics maxed except shadows.
Before I was getting ~ 25-30 FPS in dalaran and last night I was typically around 40-45FPS. For whatever reason, Dragonblight always seemed to be one of the worst zones for me as I would see around 20FPS there. After SP2, I was seeing on average 50-60FPS.
I'm curious if anybody else has installed SP2 and noticed any differences.