Slow performance!

[RickyC]

I just bought a new laptop with vista. evrything is perfect except it cant run games so well. Even emulators run bettre on my old laptop with sis650.

The cpu always goes to the top on that little line graph if i start recording my amiga emulator which i used to do on other laptop and playing more modern games i cant get along with min settings while i know others with lowers specs same card use higher.

So im just wondering if its vista causing my problems or maybe to do with my specs. Drivers are updated it seems also.

anyway my specs are -
intel(R) core(TM)2 CPU T5500 @ 1.66GHz 1.67GHz
2024MB of RAM
NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300
on vista home primium

[waresoft]

Disable the Windows Search Service. This is what slows down my Vista Computer. If you are using the Aero theme, try using the basic theme. It will work much more quickly.

[Netaddict]

Originally Posted by RickyC

I just bought a new laptop with vista. evrything is perfect except it cant run games so well. Even emulators run bettre on my old laptop with sis650.

The cpu always goes to the top on that little line graph if i start recording my amiga emulator which i used to do on other laptop and playing more modern games i cant get along with min settings while i know others with lowers specs same card use higher.

So im just wondering if its vista causing my problems or maybe to do with my specs. Drivers are updated it seems also.

anyway my specs are -
intel(R) core(TM)2 CPU T5500 @ 1.66GHz 1.67GHz
2024MB of RAM
NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300
on vista home primium

so far a few friends have trouble with vista/defender when running most any emulator/simulator/virtual type software/programs.

[Disk_Contented]

Vista is a hog. It is known to be slower than XP. The system requirements alone will tell you that much.
M$ has stated that gaming performance will be hit by up to 10% over a similar system using XP because of the new driver model. Nothing you can do about that yet.

I've not used Vista so this is a shot in the dark, but if you can find a setting for "performance", like XP has, it should help.
The interface, while pretty, will simply sap the speed.