Vista RC2 Slow

[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

 

[Guest]

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?

 

[Guest]

Oops. Meant "Vista Capable". Need more coffee...

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?

 

[Bill Frisbee]

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.

 

[Yoshi]

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?

 

[Bill Frisbee]

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.

 

[Guest]

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.