J
James
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
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