For the most part, and from my perspective only, RC2 is leaps and bounds
beyond RC1 in terms of device support, ease of installation, and general
problems. I was up and running very quickly, it found drivers a lot better
and all things considered, I'm very pleased. I'm using Vista Ultimate RC2,
Build 5744.

However, I have a couple of small nagging issues. I run a full screen game
and I'm getting a lot of lag that I never got in XP Pro. The framerate is
very low in comparison. I run dual monitors and I'm running the game on my
primary display, 20" Dell at 1600x1200. There's a few things that could
factor into this and I'm not sure if Vista is causing the problem or not.

1.) I have XP Pro on my primary C:\.
2.) I have Vista on my G:\ (secondary hard drive, not a partition).
3.) I've tried running the game from my installed C:\Program Files...and
I've tried installing the app on my G:\ (same physical drive as Vista) and
haven't noticed much difference in performance.
4.) I'm running whatever drivers Vista found/loaded, I haven't explicitly
loaded any other drivers because they seem correct/functioning.

The only other issue I've had is with an audio app. I'm using a USB headset
and the app is configured correctly. The audio sounds fine (it's a Voip
app), UNTIL I load the full screen game. Then it gets somewhat crackly.
Closing the game solves this.

System specs:
3.2 Dual Core Pentium
2 GB Ram
nVidia geForce 6800 (256 MB)

I'm open to any suggestions on how to improve the performance. If I left
any important details out, please lemme know and I can tack them on.
Otherwise it's been relatively smooth sailing, although I disabled User
Account Control or whatever it's called and I get an annoying System Tray
message a LOT saying it's a "problem" but I can't stand it and I don't need
to worry about security that much on my LAN, as I completely control it.

Thanks for any help,
James

Try installing the latest vista beta drivers from NVIDA. One I installed
them, my lag disappeared and my performance score across the board sky
rocketed.


"James" <minorkeys******.com> wrote in message
news:OfXETYs9GHA.4568@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> For the most part, and from my perspective only, RC2 is leaps and bounds
> beyond RC1 in terms of device support, ease of installation, and general
> problems. I was up and running very quickly, it found drivers a lot
> better and all things considered, I'm very pleased. I'm using Vista
> Ultimate RC2, Build 5744.
>
> However, I have a couple of small nagging issues. I run a full screen
> game and I'm getting a lot of lag that I never got in XP Pro. The
> framerate is very low in comparison. I run dual monitors and I'm running
> the game on my primary display, 20" Dell at 1600x1200. There's a few
> things that could factor into this and I'm not sure if Vista is causing
> the problem or not.
>
> 1.) I have XP Pro on my primary C:\.
> 2.) I have Vista on my G:\ (secondary hard drive, not a partition).
> 3.) I've tried running the game from my installed C:\Program Files...and
> I've tried installing the app on my G:\ (same physical drive as Vista) and
> haven't noticed much difference in performance.
> 4.) I'm running whatever drivers Vista found/loaded, I haven't explicitly
> loaded any other drivers because they seem correct/functioning.
>
> The only other issue I've had is with an audio app. I'm using a USB
> headset and the app is configured correctly. The audio sounds fine (it's
> a Voip app), UNTIL I load the full screen game. Then it gets somewhat
> crackly. Closing the game solves this.
>
> System specs:
> 3.2 Dual Core Pentium
> 2 GB Ram
> nVidia geForce 6800 (256 MB)
>
> I'm open to any suggestions on how to improve the performance. If I left
> any important details out, please lemme know and I can tack them on.
> Otherwise it's been relatively smooth sailing, although I disabled User
> Account Control or whatever it's called and I get an annoying System Tray
> message a LOT saying it's a "problem" but I can't stand it and I don't
> need to worry about security that much on my LAN, as I completely control
> it.
>
> Thanks for any help,
> James
>[/color]

I have RC2 and have lag when using the RC2 drivers from NVIDIA but all is
well if I revert to the RC1 video driver. I have an EVGA 7950 GX2 videocard.

regards
Robert
"Yoshi" <yoshi@home.com> wrote in message
news:6B636A1A-557D-4177-B98F-C85F934DB93A@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> Try installing the latest vista beta drivers from NVIDA. One I installed
> them, my lag disappeared and my performance score across the board sky
> rocketed.
>
>
> "James" <minorkeys******.com> wrote in message
> news:OfXETYs9GHA.4568@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> For the most part, and from my perspective only, RC2 is leaps and bounds
>> beyond RC1 in terms of device support, ease of installation, and general
>> problems. I was up and running very quickly, it found drivers a lot
>> better and all things considered, I'm very pleased. I'm using Vista
>> Ultimate RC2, Build 5744.
>>
>> However, I have a couple of small nagging issues. I run a full screen
>> game and I'm getting a lot of lag that I never got in XP Pro. The
>> framerate is very low in comparison. I run dual monitors and I'm running
>> the game on my primary display, 20" Dell at 1600x1200. There's a few
>> things that could factor into this and I'm not sure if Vista is causing
>> the problem or not.
>>
>> 1.) I have XP Pro on my primary C:\.
>> 2.) I have Vista on my G:\ (secondary hard drive, not a partition).
>> 3.) I've tried running the game from my installed C:\Program Files...and
>> I've tried installing the app on my G:\ (same physical drive as Vista)
>> and haven't noticed much difference in performance.
>> 4.) I'm running whatever drivers Vista found/loaded, I haven't
>> explicitly loaded any other drivers because they seem
>> correct/functioning.
>>
>> The only other issue I've had is with an audio app. I'm using a USB
>> headset and the app is configured correctly. The audio sounds fine (it's
>> a Voip app), UNTIL I load the full screen game. Then it gets somewhat
>> crackly. Closing the game solves this.
>>
>> System specs:
>> 3.2 Dual Core Pentium
>> 2 GB Ram
>> nVidia geForce 6800 (256 MB)
>>
>> I'm open to any suggestions on how to improve the performance. If I left
>> any important details out, please lemme know and I can tack them on.
>> Otherwise it's been relatively smooth sailing, although I disabled User
>> Account Control or whatever it's called and I get an annoying System Tray
>> message a LOT saying it's a "problem" but I can't stand it and I don't
>> need to worry about security that much on my LAN, as I completely control
>> it.
>>
>> Thanks for any help,
>> James
>>[/color]
>[/color]

All in all, i honestly think the lag issues is due to the video drivers.


"RR Johnson Jr" <johnson_robert@planet.nl> wrote in message
news:453cff09$0$2030$ba620dc5@text.nova.planet.nl...[color=blue]
>I have RC2 and have lag when using the RC2 drivers from NVIDIA but all is
>well if I revert to the RC1 video driver. I have an EVGA 7950 GX2
>videocard.
>
> regards
> Robert
> "Yoshi" <yoshi@home.com> wrote in message
> news:6B636A1A-557D-4177-B98F-C85F934DB93A@microsoft.com...[color=green]
>> Try installing the latest vista beta drivers from NVIDA. One I installed
>> them, my lag disappeared and my performance score across the board sky
>> rocketed.
>>
>>
>> "James" <minorkeys******.com> wrote in message
>> news:OfXETYs9GHA.4568@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...[color=darkred]
>>> For the most part, and from my perspective only, RC2 is leaps and bounds
>>> beyond RC1 in terms of device support, ease of installation, and general
>>> problems. I was up and running very quickly, it found drivers a lot
>>> better and all things considered, I'm very pleased. I'm using Vista
>>> Ultimate RC2, Build 5744.
>>>
>>> However, I have a couple of small nagging issues. I run a full screen
>>> game and I'm getting a lot of lag that I never got in XP Pro. The
>>> framerate is very low in comparison. I run dual monitors and I'm
>>> running the game on my primary display, 20" Dell at 1600x1200. There's
>>> a few things that could factor into this and I'm not sure if Vista is
>>> causing the problem or not.
>>>
>>> 1.) I have XP Pro on my primary C:\.
>>> 2.) I have Vista on my G:\ (secondary hard drive, not a partition).
>>> 3.) I've tried running the game from my installed C:\Program
>>> Files...and I've tried installing the app on my G:\ (same physical drive
>>> as Vista) and haven't noticed much difference in performance.
>>> 4.) I'm running whatever drivers Vista found/loaded, I haven't
>>> explicitly loaded any other drivers because they seem
>>> correct/functioning.
>>>
>>> The only other issue I've had is with an audio app. I'm using a USB
>>> headset and the app is configured correctly. The audio sounds fine
>>> (it's a Voip app), UNTIL I load the full screen game. Then it gets
>>> somewhat crackly. Closing the game solves this.
>>>
>>> System specs:
>>> 3.2 Dual Core Pentium
>>> 2 GB Ram
>>> nVidia geForce 6800 (256 MB)
>>>
>>> I'm open to any suggestions on how to improve the performance. If I
>>> left any important details out, please lemme know and I can tack them
>>> on. Otherwise it's been relatively smooth sailing, although I disabled
>>> User Account Control or whatever it's called and I get an annoying
>>> System Tray message a LOT saying it's a "problem" but I can't stand it
>>> and I don't need to worry about security that much on my LAN, as I
>>> completely control it.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help,
>>> James
>>>[/color]
>>[/color]
>[/color]