Lagging Vista..

DracarnionDracarnion
edited April 2007 in Science & Tech
Hey I'm running Vista home on a Toshiba laptop P105-S6227 w/ 1gb ram, dual core proc, geforce go 7600 gpu but i am getting a lag problem on my games even at the lowest graphical setting. Is anyone else getting this problem and if so, is there a known solution other than crossing our fingers and hoping for a vista patch/gpu driver that will fix it?

Thanks in advance.

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  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited April 2007
    Not being massively Vista involved, my suggestion would be that you have not enough memory in there for Vista to provide the experience you are expect. 1GB is really the operation minimum for Vista to run half decent BEFORE starting to load games on it.

    What does the Vista score tell you? :)
  • DracarnionDracarnion
    edited April 2007
    Shorty wrote:
    Not being massively Vista involved, my suggestion would be that you have not enough memory in there for Vista to provide the experience you are expect. 1GB is really the operation minimum for Vista to run half decent BEFORE starting to load games on it.

    What does the Vista score tell you? :)

    Vista Score is 4.3. I feel like it's not the lack of RAM because at minimum graphical settings it still lags and even if i close down virtually everything else that is running it still occurs. Does this really sound like a ram issue to you.?
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited April 2007
    Only from experience with the initial release of Vista. How does Vista feel to you when you use it? Slightly sluggish? or as fast an XP machine?

    RAM is crucial to Vista operation. Our very own Thrax wrote an intuitive article detailing a real life perspective of Vista usage here

    It is also worth checking your nVidia driver version. You may find you have average driver support loaded or base OEM drivers.
  • DracarnionDracarnion
    edited April 2007
    Shorty wrote:
    Only from experience with the initial release of Vista. How does Vista feel to you when you use it? Slightly sluggish? or as fast an XP machine?

    RAM is crucial to Vista operation. Our very own Thrax wrote an intuitive article detailing a real life perspective of Vista usage here

    It is also worth checking your nVidia driver version. You may find you have average driver support loaded or base OEM drivers.

    Vista seems to run fine everything seems to run fine up until i get into a game. It even runs ok for a while and then it starts to slow down.. and skip.. and the sound skips..

    I'll look into my vista rating; maybe the ram could stand to be upgraded? AS far as I know i have the latest nvidia driver. Their website doesn't have any vista drivers, so i have the latest one from the laptop manufacturer: toshiba
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited April 2007
    The limited support for good mobile 3d drivers is not helping Vistas cause at all. I think it could well be a combination.

    The way you describe the issue is interesting. Remember that as games play and run, they will start to use more memory as the action sustains. Of course, they will free up memory where they can but if hit's the system memory limit without much garbage collection, the system will start to use the pagefile (a file on your PC where memory operations can be swapped to when physical memory resources are low). This causes the slowdowns you have described.

    Here is a way to test if you feel comfortable delving more into your PC monitoring tools (some don't which I can understand!):

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/248345

    Follow the instructions in this Microsoft knowledge base above. It may seem a little daunting but it's quite simple once you have tried it once.

    Once comfortable using perfrmon, start a performance counter with logging to monitor physical memory use and "virtual" memory use. Play your game until it starts to have problems and leave it long enough (say a minute) to make sure you capture a consistent graph. Exit your game.

    Look back at your memory usage during the game. Does it show high physical memory usage and the amount of virtual memory increasing ??

    Perfmon is invaluable if you can't see task manager :)
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