"James" <minorkeys******.com> wrote in message
news:O%23PWNkQ$GHA.360@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> I'm getting a very low framerate and a very choppy/laggy feeling when
> playing a full screen game in Vista. My system:
>
> XP Pro (primary hard drive)
> Vista Ultimate RC 2 (secondary hard drive)
> nVidia geForce 6800 (256 MB)
> 2 GB RAM
> Dell 20" 2001 FP running at 1600x1200 (primary, where game is played) via
> DVI
> Dell 19" 1905 FP running at 1280x1024 (secondary) via VGA
>
> Primary Hard Drive: Samsung HD160JJ/P
> Secondary Hard Drive: Maxtor 6L200M0
>
> Game in question is installed on the Primary Hard Drive AND Secondary Hard
> Drive, but running from either has the same results. I'm booting onto the
> secondary drive, and all other applications seem to be running
> fine/quickly.
>
> When I boot onto the XP Drive, the game typically runs at roughly
> 55-60FPS. No problems whatsoever, very good experience. On the Vista
> drive, I'm looking at roughly 20FPS, so the decrease is not insignificant.
> Running in Full Screen (1600x1200) on the Primary Monitor.
>
> I'm in desperate need of things to check to confirm what's causing this
> problem. Anything I can possibly try at this point would be a beautiful
> thing. Do I potentially just need a video card upgrade? Is that the
> likely culprit? Wouldn't think so, considering how perfectly it runs in
> XP Pro. Open to *anything* at this point, including hardware upgrades.[/color]

The most likely cause of this is nVidia's drivers. It's probably safe to
assume that Vista would be maybe 10-15% slower, but that kind of performance
hit certainly isn't normal.

I've recently blogged about the state of nVidia's drivers, they really are a
mess at the moment:
[url]http://blogs.dasmirnov.net/paul/2006/10/30/wanna_use_windows_vista_ditch_nvidia[/url]

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
[url]http://www.windowsresource.net/[/url]

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