Graphic Card Setup Problem?

[Guest]

Hi

I am running Ultimate, I have a system with the following specs.
CPU - P4 3.2 HT
Graphics Card - nVidia 7600GT 256 meg (latest driver 158.18)
RAM 2.5 Gig
Hard drive Maxtor 150 Gig 10,000 RPM.
Motherboard - Asus P5SD X2

When I was running XP Home I got 21,000 with 3DMARKS 2001 SE,
now under Vista Ultimate I get less than 10,000 3DMARKS 2001 SE.

I cannot believe that Vista has caused such a drop in performance, I must
have a setting wrong somewhere, does anyone have any advice on how I can get
my performance back with Vista?

thanks

 

[Guest]

Daniel,

I don't have any information, but try using google to see what you find.
There must be more users out there with this issue and are posting about it.
Anyone else?

 

[Guest]

Hi

I was hoping someone here had the same problem and was able to fix it, all
of my searching on the web only came up with people blaming nVidia and
Microsoft for bad drivers and Vista for being a bad OS.

Hpoefully someone will respond with a fix.

cheers

 

[Cal Bear '66]

I have a similar card (7600GS 256MB, AMD 64 X2, 4200+, 4GB RAM, Vista Ultimate).
I am not a gamer, but my video editing and photo manipulation are much better
than with XP. I have not run any benchmarks, but I think the problem is that the
nVidia drivers are not really "mature".yet. We'll just have to wait for nVidia
to catch up.

 

[Guest]

Yes, my photo editing etc is much better with much less lag when mods are
made, but gaming, namely Train Simulator, and the benchmark are much worse.

I get bad artifacts when running Train Simulator.

Thing is that I am certain that I got much better performance when I
initially installed Vista and it has gone down hill since then.

cheers