Vista RC2 Slow

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Yoshi

I downloaded and installed Vista RC2 last night. Right off the bat I've
noticed that it's painfully slow. Is anyone else experiencing this?

I am running Vista on a Dell Precision M60 laptop, 2 gigs of ram, 256 mb of
video, 2.0 mghtz processor, 60 gb 7200 rpm hd. I have a friend that
installed it last night on a new $5,000+ Alienware gaming laptop and he was
experiencing the same issue.

What's going on?

Thanks,

Yosh
 
Not me. I've installed on a custom built desktop and a new Costco Compaq
laptop and RC2 runs as fast or faster than the previous builds. Are these
laptops "Vista Certified"? The gamers at Neowin report no slowness.

Video drivers?
 
Oops. Meant "Vista Capable". Need more coffee...

PNutts said:
Not me. I've installed on a custom built desktop and a new Costco Compaq
laptop and RC2 runs as fast or faster than the previous builds. Are these
laptops "Vista Certified"? The gamers at Neowin report no slowness.

Video drivers?
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Yosh,

Doing what? I've not seen any slowdowns on a number of systems, from very
low end to mostly higher end.

Did you upgrade from XP? Upgrade from RC1?


Bill F.
 
Bill,

I did a clean install. It's very odd because I read alot of people are very
pleased with the performance. My laptop is in a docking station running a
24" Dell Monitor. Maybe it's having a hard time "drawing/paiting" the
screen? I have an NVIDIA FX GO 700 with 256 mb of ram.

It's just very slow. My hard drive is running 7200 RPMS too.

I dunno?
 
Yoshi,

Did you go get the latest drivers for your Video Card from Nvidia? You can
get them from here
http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_rel70betadriver.html

To test if its having a hard time drawing the screen, open up IE and go to
any page, shrink the screen down a little and move the window around quickly
with the mouse. If the motion gets chunky or sluggish, its more than likely
a video issue. If not, it's something else. SOrry I cannot be more specific.

That system should run Vista with all the bells and wistles without issue.

a 7200 RPM laptop drive should have no issues at all.

Bill F.
 
The last time I checked (and it has been a few days), nVidia does not have
any Vista drivers for their GO series of notebook video adapters. Their
website gives a brief explaination.

My wife's notebook has a GO 6150 and I found instructions on the Internet to
modify the INF files so that the beta driver for the plain ol' 6150 would
work.
 
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