Win 7 SP1 gets dated?

most nerds (like myself) will only be waiting until the 16th - to see if the MSDN release sha1 keys match the leaks from last month. :p
 
Might do a fresh install too. Blow out the cobwebs. My backup images are getting larger these days so I can probably stand to lose some extra fluff.
 
Going to time my install of Win7x64 with the release of SP1 I think... that way all the updates can be on and sorted before I start reinstalling any of my other stuff :)
 
I will never "fresh install" my Win7 for it is spectacular in speed of operation and organisation and has been since the day it was installed! (24/8/2009)

RAWR!


Running SP1 RTM btw ¬_¬
 
Mattus said:
What does SP1 bring to the table, assuming you're fully up-to-date on Windows Update?
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It brings patches and bug fixes that can't always necessarily be obtained elsewhere. Consider it just a "big" Windows Update patch. In terms of new features on W7... not a lot to get excited about I'm afraid.
 
The leaked SP1, which I hope is *NOT* the final build, seems to bring with it an unwelcome issue on my machine the two occasions I installed (and uninstalled!) it.

Initially, I couldn't get it to install at all until I discovered, through some crafty Google-ing, that using an earlier version of Driver Sweeper when I upgraded from HD 5870 CrossFireX to a GTX 580 removed some backup files in the Windows\Winsxs folder. Without those files the SP1 installer aborts. Fortunately, I was able to reinstate the files without reinstalling Windows 7 from the Phyxion.net site and proceeded to install the service pack.

Everything appeared to go well and 20 minutes later (gotta love those SSDs!) my PC rebooted to report that SP1 had been successfully installed. However, when I tried to play DirectX 9 games such as Dead Space 2 or Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit they kept crashing to the desktop during the initial load. The Event log reported the error was with Nvd3dum.dll, apparently an NVIDIA driver file. DirectX 10 and 11 games though loaded and played fine. Odd, right?

Despite reinstalling the DirectX Redistributable (June 2010) and my graphics drivers (then v266.58) the DX9 games continued to crash. I had no option but to uninstall SP1 which allowed me to again play all my games with no issues. I even tried reinstalling SP1 again a few days later after I'd installed the latest v266.66 drivers (using a modifed INF file) but I got the exact same crashes. As you expect I uninstalled it... again.

I've no idea why SP1 causes only DX9 games to crash but clearly whatever hotfixes/updates it includes, one (or more) of them causes a conflict. I just hope that the official release doesn't have this issue. I do use third-party software though such as MSI Afterburner and D3DOverrider so perhaps one of those is incompatible with SP1? Whatever, I'll wait until the 22nd before I try SP1 again.
 
Darren1967 said:
The leaked SP1, which I hope is *NOT* the final build, seems to bring with it an unwelcome issue on my machine the two occasions I installed (and uninstalled!) it.

Initially, I couldn't get it to install at all until I discovered, through some crafty Google-ing, that using an earlier version of Driver Sweeper when I upgraded from HD 5870 CrossFireX to a GTX 580 removed some backup files in the Windows\Winsxs folder. Without those files the SP1 installer aborts. Fortunately, I was able to reinstate the files without reinstalling Windows 7 from the Phyxion.net site and proceeded to install the service pack.

Everything appeared to go well and 20 minutes later (gotta love those SSDs!) my PC rebooted to report that SP1 had been successfully installed. However, when I tried to play DirectX 9 games such as Dead Space 2 or Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit they kept crashing to the desktop during the initial load. The Event log reported the error was with Nvd3dum.dll, apparently an NVIDIA driver file. DirectX 10 and 11 games though loaded and played fine. Odd, right?

Despite reinstalling the DirectX Redistributable (June 2010) and my graphics drivers (then v266.58) the DX9 games continued to crash. I had no option but to uninstall SP1 which allowed me to again play all my games with no issues. I even tried reinstalling SP1 again a few days later after I'd installed the latest v266.66 drivers (using a modifed INF file) but I got the exact same crashes. As you expect I uninstalled it... again.

I've no idea why SP1 causes only DX9 games to crash but clearly whatever hotfixes/updates it includes, one (or more) of them causes a conflict. I just hope that the official release doesn't have this issue. I do use third-party software though such as MSI Afterburner and D3DOverrider so perhaps one of those is incompatible with SP1? Whatever, I'll wait until the 22nd before I try SP1 again.
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Well it has now been confirmed that the leaked SP1 and DVD Image files are definitely the final build 7601.17514.101119-1850 and are the exact same ones you`ll get from TechNet / MSDN and official public download from MS.

If you already have the leaked SP1 DVD Images or the MS installer version that has a build number of: 7601.17514.101119-1850, then there's no need to wait.
 
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Windows Update has now been enabled to support SP1 as I had 6 security updates via auto updates yesterday :)
 
Don't see why it's against any rule, it's a servicepack and is an original release.


I got mine off newsgroups though so can't link to it!
 
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