Well, view distance did absolutely nothing. If they fix that so that 10% is actually 10% of that view, you can run this game on FX-series ultras in shader model 2.0.
SP1 wasn't really designed as a gaming pack - it adresses the issues people had with vista in general such as file extraction taking 10+ minutes for 1 MB files. In terms of operating systems vista is by far the most stable one yet, I've not had a single crash or freeze since I installed it. So even if XP is faster, I'm not interested in changeing back right now or ever. PS: Please stop the whine about vista not running on less than a super computer with 8 GB of RAM, you liers. I'm running vista on an AMD 2400, 2X 512 MB RAM and an MSI GeForce FX 5900XT (yes, nvidia has released FX drivers for vista 32-bit) and I'm running it with all visuals and eye-candy turned on - and I'm not lagging. And if I'm not lagging on a computer that got a score of 190 3DMarks in 3Dmark06 that just tells me one thing: You didn't even try vista before bashing it. This SP was a welcome fix. Will probably take a few months until they start rolling out gaming specific improvements but they will be worth it.
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