Tabula Rasa + Vista SP1 = what exactly?

by Eli Shayotovich on Mar 7th 2008 7:30PM

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Tony "RadarX" Jones over at Ten Ton Hammer has crafted a fine briefing concerning Vista's long overdue Service Pack 1 and it's potential effects on MMOs and Tabula Rasa in particular. It's geared for gamers (if you like technobabble, check out ExtremeTech's article), so even a Dunder-Mifflin head like myself can understand it.

I was one of the early adopters, hopping aboard the Vista wagon not long after it dropped. I won't say I regret it, but I will say there were days (many of them to be exact) that I pulled my hair out in frustration. I still do that on occasion, when for no reason whatsoever Vista decides to randomly erase a game's executable file. So here's hoping SP1 does for Vista what hops did for beer. But I'm not holding my breath. Vista was supposed to the shining knight on horseback to save PC gaming and bring it to gaming nirvana. Ya... not so much.

So, will SP1 help or hurt gaming? More specifically, will it help or hurt Tabula Rasa? Check out Tony's article for all the details, then come back here and discuss. Do you love or hate Vista in regards to your fave MMO, and do you think SP1 will provide any benefit?

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Tags: destination-games, Microsoft, ncsoft, richard-garriott, Service Pack 1, tabula-rasa, ten-ton-hammer, Tony-RadarX-Jones, tr, Vista

Reader Comments (2)

I'm running Vista SP1 here, and I really haven't seen any improvements what-so-ever. I had Vista installed months ago, but removed it and went back to XP. I REINSTALLED Vista and put SP1 on immediately (MSDN version, so it's final), and it might just be that I hadn't had recent experience with any issues.