Vista Using too much System Resources

[Guest]

I don't know if anybody has this prob, but I have noticed that Vista requires
a lot of system resources.

This is a breakdown of my machine:
AMD X2 4800+ 64-bit Dual Core
2G PC3200 DDR Ram (2 x 1G Sticks)
ATI Radon x850 XT 256mb DDR Ram
250g Wester Digital 16mg Cash Hard Drive
DVD +/- RW Dual Layer 16x

That's the basics of it. I shouldn't have a single bit of problems with it.
My machine way outperforms the requirements. I am using anywhere from 50-60%
of my CPU just sitting still with nothing running and at least 1g of ram. It
shouldn't take that much just to sit here with nothing running. Then when I
open a program my CPU jumps up to 100% and maybe drops to 95% sometimes. I
don't know whats going on.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

How long has Vista been installed? There are reports in this ng that the
search indexing uses a lot of resources for a couple of days or so.

 

[Mark Dietz]

Disk indexing should take a MAX of 20min. and that would be on a system running
Ultimate that barely meets the minimum specs for Home Basic. Can you look at
task manager, tell it to show all processes and then sort by CPU usage to see
what exactly is using the CPU? Another thing that I've heard of as an issue,
looking at your specs, is that there is an error with the driver for the CPU
that causes problems, and I've heard where installing the dual-core driver fixes
things.

 

[jonah]

I don't know if anybody has this prob, but I have noticed that Vista requires
a lot of system resources.

This is a breakdown of my machine:
AMD X2 4800+ 64-bit Dual Core
2G PC3200 DDR Ram (2 x 1G Sticks)
ATI Radon x850 XT 256mb DDR Ram
250g Wester Digital 16mg Cash Hard Drive
DVD +/- RW Dual Layer 16x

That's the basics of it. I shouldn't have a single bit of problems with it.
My machine way outperforms the requirements. I am using anywhere from 50-60%
of my CPU just sitting still with nothing running and at least 1g of ram. It
shouldn't take that much just to sit here with nothing running. Then when I
open a program my CPU jumps up to 100% and maybe drops to 95% sometimes. I
don't know whats going on.

Must be something in there causing problems, I run it on a bog
standard 2.6 sempron & 512 Mb of cheapo RAM and an even cheaper used
NV5500 Video Card, runs very well and no significant performance
problems, its not fast but its OK. I have no hardware connected and
virtually nothing running on it beyond trend AV, its just a test box.

Jonah

 

[Travis King]

Yeah, I agree. Vista isn't as fast as XP, but I don't think I'd consider it
slow either. (Except for Windows Media Player 11 on my computer - it's very
slow. I don't get it either because WMP11 works great on XP.) Vista runs
okay on my Sempron 2800+, 1.5GB of RAM (with sometimes as much as 70% free),
ATI Radeon X1600 PRO 256MB GDDR2 AGP 8x, Western Digital 80GB 7200RPM IDE
2MB cache (XP partition, Western Digital 120GB 7200RPM IDE 8MB cache (60GB
partition for Vista), Lite On DVD drive 16x, Memorex 52x32x52 CD-RW drive, 3
1/2" floppy, Creative Audigy soundcard.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

But then the code is not optimized yet.

Yeah, I agree. Vista isn't as fast as XP, but I don't think I'd consider
it slow either. (Except for Windows Media Player 11 on my computer - it's
very slow. I don't get it either because WMP11 works great on XP.) Vista
runs okay on my Sempron 2800+, 1.5GB of RAM (with sometimes as much as 70%
free), ATI Radeon X1600 PRO 256MB GDDR2 AGP 8x, Western Digital 80GB
7200RPM IDE 2MB cache (XP partition, Western Digital 120GB 7200RPM IDE 8MB
cache (60GB partition for Vista), Lite On DVD drive 16x, Memorex 52x32x52
CD-RW drive, 3 1/2" floppy, Creative Audigy soundcard.

 

[Mario Rosario]

You might have some weired installation problem. Maybe a race condition. It
was real choppy when I first installed too. I think the CPU was spining 100%
cycles. Then I changed my video card and the problem went away. I'm running
Vista on a much less hardware than you and it's behaving reasonably. It's a
1.7 Ghz P4 home grown. But don't laugh! I had to quit buying hardware
because I have too many. Hardware upgrades are a beast of burden.

The CPU meter usually sit at around 05% when idling. I think something is
causing your system to go bonkers.

 

[Guest]

Running Media Player 11 with visualization, defrag, side bare clocks, image
gallery on disolve, and this and CPU is at 04-27% on 3rd day install. Spiking
only when the image changes.
Possibly something else is wrong with your install or other software
installation, start disabling stuff and when you get it to drop youll find
your issue.
I had the same problem with XP a while back, turns on my USB 2.0 ports were
causing the system to hang and spike at 100% cpu cycles. I disabled the USB
2.0 support in the bios, turned off plug and play aware OS, and rebooted,
problem fixed.