Trying out Vista.. Very slow.

Right.. I finally decided to try vista.

So, I backup my XP-64 partition and install Vista-64.

After vista installed, I installed all updates except the microsoft gfx drivers and the motherboard drivers.

Once installed and rebooted, I installed the Nforce 4 drivers and the latest Nvidia gfx drivers.

But for some reason, Vista is amazingly slow. So slow that moving windows around lagged like crazy.

I also installed that performance and reliability pack, it didn't make a difference.

I had a small LAN party on friday, and I managed to play with vista on my friends machine which had an Athlon 64 3200+ @ 2.6ghz, 2gb ram and a geforce 7800GT 256mb. It ran perfectly fine on his PC, much much much faster than on mine!

My system spec is as follows:

Asus A8N32 SLI Deluxe
AMD Athlon 64 x2 3800+ @ 3ghz (Stable)
4gb DDR Ram (Running at 200mhz)
Geforce 6800GT 256mb
Seagate Barracuda 250gb SATA II HDD with 16mb Cache

I've also tried vista with the processor at stock, and still it runs slowly.

Has anyone else experienced this?

 

Yep vista is very hungry and not worth using.

 

Yeahh..

Anyone else?

 

I found Vista sluggish, but not this bad...

 

Well, on my friends PC, it runs just like XP does. Really smooth and quick.. I was really surprised considering what some people have been saying about it.

 

I notice your friend has a better video card than you do. Try turning off some of the visual junk thats in vista and see if that improves it any.
Also, was this a clean install of vista or an upgrade install from xp?

 

It was a completely clean install. I remember using vista on an old Pentium 4 1.8ghz box with 512mb ram and a Geforce 5900 and it was no where near as slow as my pc when running vista.

I might try it again later and install the drivers before I install any updates.

 

It should manage just fine. But your complaints suggest to me a graphic card driver issue. Roll back to the previous version and see if that helps.

 

Yeah, I was thinking that. I'll download these and see how it goes.

 

I was going to post saying it's the indexer and such, but it doesn't seem so. You have a very similar system to mine, so I'd probably say it was a driver problem.

 

sure its not your hdd ? Whats your activity lights doing ? could be that you partitoned at the end of the drive = slower r/w speeds ?

Just a thought...

 

Defraged?

 

a fragmented drive wouldn't cause trouble when just moving a window around the desktop.
Like someone else said, its sounding like a driver issue. Let us know how the latest drivers work out.

 

Right click -> properties on My Computer

Click on Windows Experience Index

Click Update my score

And then tell me your scores

 

I've just gotten vista installed. I'm currently installing drivers, albeit slowly...


Edit 1:
Ok, Drivers installed now.

Its still very slow, CPU usage is only at about 5% to 20%. I've installed no updates yet though.

I'm getting loads of GUI corruption and the GUI seems pretty unresponsive. Moving the cursor over buttons on the start menu, they don't seem to react to the cursor until the cursor is on a button three buttons away.. if you understand what I mean..

Say If I'm moving from button 1 to 10. Once I've hovered over button 3, button 1 will react.

I'm thinking the graphics card might be over heating, although I was playing COD2 and all sorts on this machine last night with no problems what so ever.

Edit 2:
Ok.. I've tried to take a screenshot of the corruption, but it just comes out blank. I'm going to install Rivatuner and see if there's anything I can change regarding fan settings..

Also, the scores:

Index: 5.0
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Processor: 5.4
Memory: 5.0
Graphics 5.9
Gaming Graphics 5.4
HDD: 5.7

 

That seems low for the memory score, this article over at Tom's Hardware shows that 2GB of DDR2-667 in dual-channel getting 5.5 for its Vista rating. I'm not sure if this can help find your issue, but it is an odd too have such a low score for 4GB of ram.

 

Hmm.. This is odd.

I'm running with 3gb of ram in at the moment, and everything is running perfectly.

Its VERY snappy..

I'm confused.

Edit:

I've also just refreshed the ratings, the ram score hasn't changed.

 

running with 3gb? so you took a stick out?
that is kind of strange. I'm at a loss, you didn't change anything in the bios did you? maybe the timings or voltage need to be adjusted?

 

Sorry, no. I haven't taken a stick out. I told Vista to only use 3gb of RAM. So the memory is still there, its just that Vista isn't using it.

This is very very weird, XP64 worked perfectly fine, but Vista is crapping its self over it!

 

Does the BIOS have any kind of RAM address mapping option for 4GB? If so enable/disable it.