Performance Manager and ATI 1300

[Guest]

I had previously installed RC1, no problems and Vista gave my overall system
performance, based on the lowest component, my ATI 1300 512 mb, a 4.
ok no problem here. I can live with that.

I tinker with my system later, reformat a hard drive and do a fresh install
of RC2 with the windows driver. Now it rates it a 3.8?!
hmm..
Go to ATI and download the latest Vista driver, the same one I used for the
RC1 install.
ATI 1300 still remains a 3.8.

So why (how?) did my performance take a 10% hit between RC1 and RC2?
Hate to think of what will happen when the gold release comes out... 3.5?!

 

[Robert Moir]

I had previously installed RC1, no problems and Vista gave my overall
system performance, based on the lowest component, my ATI 1300 512
mb, a 4.
ok no problem here. I can live with that.

I tinker with my system later, reformat a hard drive and do a fresh
install of RC2 with the windows driver. Now it rates it a 3.8?!
hmm..
Go to ATI and download the latest Vista driver, the same one I used
for the RC1 install.
ATI 1300 still remains a 3.8.

So why (how?) did my performance take a 10% hit between RC1 and RC2?
Hate to think of what will happen when the gold release comes out...
3.5?!

There isn't a line in the code that read:
"If Video_CARD = ATI 1300 then set GRAPHICS = 4.0" in RC1 that got changed
to 3.8 in the RC2 code. The system performs a benchmark. The result returned
by the benchmark has obviously changed, which isn't that unexpected when you
consider that things still change during the RC phase.

 

[Guest]

I have the same card ATI 1300. With Vista RC1 performance mark was 4.0. I just
installed RC2 (clean install) and performance did not change, still 4.0

 

[Guest]

I think Robert is right. My system scored 4.8 one time, then 5 with a newer
version. Probably MS do some adjustment with their benchmark algorithm.

 

[Guest]

I'm still got 4.0 with My ATI x1400 Card.
I guess you have somthing running when do the test. Try again.