any SAFE tweaks for Home Premium to crank up the speed?

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I thought my 2 day old computer would have a better score. the low score of
3 is from my 335MB graphics, any tweaks that could help kick it up a notch
or two?
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Buy a faster video card.

Actually I wish Microsoft hadn't included this scoring in Vista. My
advice is to subjectively assess the performance you are getting. Are
you happy with it? If yes, forget about the numbers on that scoring
screen.

Only if performance is unsatisfactory should you worry about things
like this.
 
faster video card!! holy, 335MB isn't good enough? the laptop I upgraded
from had 16MB and I had almost no problems at all.

I'm starting to get very discouraged with Vista because it seems like it
requires much more and gives less in return.
there is no way that the benefits of Vista is that much more superior to XP
Pro that it will only run satisfactorily with a top-of-the-line computer.
Crap, I thought for sure with what this computer came with I would have no
problems doing what I wanted , when I wanted... especially upgrading from my
Dell Inspiron 8100, P3 866/40GB/512MB/16MB video. Xp ran extremely well and
played all my videos, games (most) and movies, no problem.

yesterday I was so excited about my new investment, now I sit here thinking
the money would have been better spent on my car or maybe a new Mac. :(
 
Paul said:
I thought my 2 day old computer would have a better score. the low
score of 3 is from my 335MB graphics, any tweaks that could help kick
it up a notch or two?

Thanks guys
Paul
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are you concerned about the score or ACTUAL performance issues? I don't
pay much attention to the score on my Toshiba laptop--it's a bit low do
to the integrated graphics. However, in use, it works fine for what I
use it for, including watching movies. I don't plan on loading BF2 on
it. :)

Dave
 
faster video card!! holy, 335MB isn't good enough?
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That response is like my telling you to get a faster car, and your
replying "four doors on the car isn't good enough?"

The amount of memory you have on the video card and the speed of the
card are two completely different things.

Besides, I pointed out that you should really disregard the score.
What you have may indeed be fast enough for you, if you are happy with
the performance. How much video speed you need depends on what you use
your computer for. Those who play shoot-em-up type games typically
require much more video speed than those of us who don't.
 
Boy Paul do I agree with you. I did buy a Readyboost and that has helped a
lots. Nice thing about the Readyboost I purchased it came with ZERO
instructions and only took me three days to figure out how to get it to work.
 
That little piece of MS baloney is useless..............bragging rights is
about all its good for.
Its a marketing tool designed to let you think that whatever piece of
hardware has a low rating needs to be replaced
I have a laptop with the score of 3 on the video 3D and that is my
score....the rest are all at 4.something.
The unit doesn't run any slower than when I had XP on it..........the unit
still does the same things as when I had XP
Movies still play.........Sounds play.........Games seem just as
fast.....Ofiice stuff operates smoothly.......................like I said
bragging rights and about 5000000 pages of newsgroups discussion.
peter
 
Your old graphic card would get the minimum score of 1, if it were possible
to score lower I'm sure it would. You score 3 with the new computer, it is a
good score. If you have no performance troubles then there is no problem.
 
Ken Blake said:
That response is like my telling you to get a faster car, and your
replying "four doors on the car isn't good enough?"

The amount of memory you have on the video card and the speed of the
card are two completely different things.

Besides, I pointed out that you should really disregard the score.
What you have may indeed be fast enough for you, if you are happy with
the performance. How much video speed you need depends on what you use
your computer for. Those who play shoot-em-up type games typically
require much more video speed than those of us who don't.
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I agree wholeheartedly. That score is nothing to get uptight about. My
system scores really well in all areas except video, and this drags my score
back down. I do not care though, I am not a gamer, hence do not need the
video power. It does what I want and that is all I ask.
 
Paul said:
I thought my 2 day old computer would have a better score. the low score of
3 is from my 335MB graphics, any tweaks that could help kick it up a notch
or two?

Thanks guys
Paul

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HP Pavilion V9000 Entertainment Laptop
Vista Home Premium/dual core 1.8/160GB/2GB ram/335MB Graphic/17"
widescreen
... and a whole wack of bells and whistles :) SWEET!!
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Google 'Vista performance tweaks' and take your pick of the guides
available.
 
I thought my 2 day old computer would have a better score. the low score of
3 is from my 335MB graphics, any tweaks that could help kick it up a notch
or two?

Thanks guys
Paul
 
Speed improvements under Vista:

1. Install 2 gig of memory if your not there already.

2. Install a larger, faster 7,200 rpm harddrive.

3. Clean out the buffers, and temp files.

4. and last but not least; Defrag the hard drive.

That's about all you can do that is cost effective on an existing PC.

Richard.
 
actually I have all of the above and still isn't great... Honestly, my dell
p3 866/40G/512M/16m video is almost as fast. my new HP is at bare bones,
nothing installed after new, my dell is maxed out with games, music... and
still seems slightly, and I mean slightly slower than my dual-core
1.8/160GB/2G ram/335M video. the graphics seemed much better on my Dell with
the exception of the hardware screen quality (my HP has an amazing screen
but some windows such as the one I'm typing in on Windows Mail) is much
better.

I think I would be much happier with this new laptop running XP pro. once I
finish downloading the HUGE!!! amount of updates from windows and HP, if
things don't improve.... XP goes back on and my Vista disk becomes my beer
coaster.
 
You may have a memory issue with that large memory video card. Microsoft has
posted a supported fix for this that it is reported will become part of SP1.
The fix is not yet part of any automatic download. Don't worry about it
unless you intend to run some video games that are hogs for memory and
memory resources.

Richard.
 
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