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April 28th, 2008

Effects of XP SP3 update on gaming

Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes @ 7:21 am

Categories: Microsoft, On the test bench

Tags: Video Card, Graphics, Games, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Video Cards, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software

The results

I took the results for XP SP3 and combined these with data that I collected in February when I benchmarked XP SP2, Vista RTM and Vista SP1.

Here are the results:

Effects of XP SP3 on gaming

Effects of XP SP3 on gaming

Conclusion

XP SP3 offers no meaningful gains or losses compared to XP SP2 when it comes to gaming. However, on the upside gamers can feel confident applying the update without fearing a drop on frame rates.

As always, your mileage WILL vary!

Thoughts?

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  • Most Recent of 13 Talkback(s)
RE: Effects of XP SP3 update on gaming
A ridiculous analysis of the numbers, that its good and safe to update to XP sp3.

Most numbers are down by way more than the up numbers are up. Any fool can see if you play games not on that li... (Read the rest)
Posted by: Fred Nurks Posted on: 05/03/08 You are currently: a Guest | | Terms of Use
SSE Optimizations?  Uber Dweeb | 04/28/08
threads handling are better in Vista  qmlscycrajg | 04/28/08
threads handling is better in Vista  qmlscycrajg | 04/28/08
And that helps us how...  BitTwiddler | 04/28/08
Games are single trhreaded  andrewjg | 04/29/08
Games are multi threaded  lukaszgda@... | 04/29/08
thought it was just a rollup  marks055@... | 04/28/08
Rollup plus adds some backported vista features  SamCPP | 04/28/08
Just a rollup, no back ported features.  ShadeTree | 04/29/08
at least two bakc ported features that come to mind.  rtk | 04/29/08
no winner  cwhull | 04/29/08
RE: Effects of XP SP3 update on gaming  A. Noid | 04/29/08
RE: Effects of XP SP3 update on gaming  Fred Nurks | 05/03/08

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