On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:25:12 -0500, "James" <minorkeys******.com>
wrote:
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>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.
>
>Any help would be very much appreciated.
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I second that complaint. FS2002 is a slide show, but smooth as butter
in XP. Same settings.
GEforce 6800GT, 1 gig ram.

Eric