Just put vista premium on today. Tried playing WoW and graphics have gone from smooth with xp to a jittery, stuttering mess. No idea why., I have a p4, 3.0ghz, 1gig ram, 9800 pro. I know old, but worked fine for graphics with WoW (and most games actually) yesterday. The hard drive also sounds like its constantly busy now. Surfing the web sucks now too, everything is slow and delayed. Any idea why? thanks
dont play games on vista with less then 2 gbs of ram that os eats your ram!!! i had halo 2 and lost planet go extremly laggy for me I had 2 get more ram for vista
I got poor performance also after upgrading to Vista Business the other day. The cascades demo lags even on 640x480 no AA, no AF. My 3dmark06 score dropped literally 3000 points (which is the slowest out of all similiar machines). I will probably clean install vista and see if that helps. If not, its back to XP and my halfway decent 11500 3dmark06 score. World In Conflict lags even on medium with DX10. Lost Planet, forget it. Bioshock runs ok, but the textures are somewhat F'd up. For some reason CS:S seems to remain unaffected. I hate vista so far. I have to click allow every time I want to run a program (why can't it be just once?). A majority of XP folders are left over from the upgrade that are empty and need to be deleted. It also constantly blocks my startup programs, which can't be fixed by going through control panel. What a peice of crap. Hopefully, SP1 will fix my problems.
I disabled a bunch of processes that were running in the background, and uninstalled norton 360 (which sucks). My HD stopped running, so that smoothed some of it out. I can play the cod4 demo now, but the ut3 demo is unplayable. WoW is better but still lags. If I buy a new pc im going xp for sure.
It's not the OS, it's the user. There's quite a number of things you can do to get Vista performance on par with XP. For starters, make sure your using Vista Lite to delete/disable the crap out of stuff you won't be using or need for you installation of Vista. I've made so many tweaks that I have as little memory usage as I did with XP.. under 200mb at idle!
It's not the OS, it's the user. There's quite a number of things you can do to get Vista performance on par with XP. For starters, make sure your using Vista Lite to delete/disable the crap out of stuff you won't be using or need for you installation of Vista. I've made so many tweaks that I have as little memory usage as I did with XP.. under 200mb at idle!Quad-Core
"Vista lite?" whats that?? cant find anything called that...
It's not the OS, it's the user. There's quite a number of things you can do to get Vista performance on par with XP. For starters, make sure your using Vista Lite to delete/disable the crap out of stuff you won't be using or need for you installation of Vista. I've made so many tweaks that I have as little memory usage as I did with XP.. under 200mb at idle!Quad-Core
Doesn't that make the problem with the OS if it requires users to make a lot of tweaks to make it operable?
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