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| Video Issues w/Vista (gaming) 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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| Re: Video Issues w/Vista (gaming) "James" <minorkeys******.com> wrote in message news:O%23PWNkQ$GHA.360@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > 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. 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: http://blogs.dasmirnov.net/paul/2006...a_ditch_nvidia -- Paul Smith, Yeovil, UK. Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User. http://www.windowsresource.net/ *Remove nospam. to reply by e-mail* |
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| Re: Video Issues w/Vista (gaming) On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:25:12 -0500, "James" <minorkeys******.com> wrote: >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. > I second that complaint. FS2002 is a slide show, but smooth as butter in XP. Same settings. GEforce 6800GT, 1 gig ram. Eric |
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