duffman said:
Mark-
I installed Vista Beta 2 Build 5384 by itself on a newly formatted
partition. I was under the assumption that this version of Vista can not
be
used as an upgrade, and I did not want to mess with a dual boot. I have
not
upgraded from 512mb ram, and there are no devices that are currently not
working in the device manager. However, when I go into system
performance
there are two drivers that it says are slowing down my system. I think
one
is for my video(ati mobility radeon 9600), and the other is for my
trackpad.
I don't understand this, though, because I have the latest Windows Vista
Catalyst drivers installled for the video card, and the trackpad is
functioning perfectly. Thanks for the help, and let me know if you have
any
other suggestions.
Okay;
I have Vista running on a partition, also. I have 1.5GB of RAM, and after
startup and letting it sit for an hour or so, I have approximately 500MB of
RAM in play, with Vista, an AV program and Diskeeper running and all
services running that run by default (i.e.: I have not manually hacked Vista
to turn any services off). I tried the ATI beta drivers on one of my Vista
installs, but found the ones that ATI had supplied to MSFT to be more
efficient, so for subsequent installations, I did not install ATI's beta
drivers.
I am only guessing here, so bear with me. If you have only had Vista
running for a few hours, then it may likely be that the indexing process is
crawling around looking for stuff. This will take some time, and while the
initial indexing is occurring, it is a resource hit, to be sure. When I
first fire up, I am using well over 750MB of RAM for at least 10 minutes,
after which things start to settle in. I also noticed that the longer Vista
is in use (not uptime, just how long it has been installed) the amount of
RAM being used is becoming less, incrementally.
I am not sure about the track pad, as I have not had this issue. Perhaps it
is a driver that while functional, is just not exactly perfect for Vista.
If any of this seems plausible, just let it sit running overnight (remember
to disable autosleep), and then reboot. That should take care of the
indexing issue. Consider more RAM, since the minimum recommendation from
MSFT for a premium edition of Vista is 1GB. Also consider doing a driver
rollback for the graphics card.