Vista performance

[Javan]

prelude
I have installed vista x86 on a P4 2.8, 512MB, ram intel graphic card.
I know this is beta and improvements will come.

The specs above probably about an average system. The average user will have
somethign close to this maybe a better video card. The eye candy is nice,
but the speed with vista is terrible out of the box. I have already adjusted
the graphics for best performance but it is still a lot slower than XP pro.
I am going to continue to tweak the setting to see what I can get but most
users will only see that there computer became a lot slower with Vista.

Windows performance rating gives the system a rating like this.
processor 3.4
memory 3.6
hard drive 3.8
graphics 2.0
gaming graphics 1 (not detected)
overall rating 1

Odd that the overall rating is 1 when 4 of the 5 rated items are higher than
1. Maybe the video card plays a large role with vista performance. What is
the highest performance rating possible? 10?

Jon

 

[Mark]

Well, a chain is only as strong as it's weakest link ;

I wouldn't take that performance rating too seriously, but you definitely
need more RAM, especially since your onboard video is using it also.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

That is your computer's rating, not Vista's. The overall rating is the
lowest of any of the ratings (weakest link theory).

 

[Travis King]

I've got a gig and a half of RAM and haven't once yet used half of it with
Vista. (Although I've been close.) I probably would eat it up with games.
With this much RAM, Vista is reponsive. No, it's not as fast as XP, but it
is responsive.