Vista: Performance Hints and Tips

[TowDog]

Brand new computer, running Vista Premium. Weird little bugs, like the AH prog will lock totally after running fine for hours, have to ctrl+alt+del out. In XP this would actually lock the computer hard which needed a power-off reboot. Guess I'm moving up in the world?
Everything is so new now, and with 7 pages of stuff here to go thru it'll be quite a while getting caught up, but basically it runs ok, but not smooth. Good framerate, (I'm used to 7-10 fps! Now up to 30 whoohoo!), but it's just not smooth. Rolling wings from left to right, there is a perceptable, if not small, stuttering.
Also, after the program starts acting up the computer has to be rebooted to clear it, nothing else seems to work. Almost like some resource is being eaten up, but it doesn't show in task manager. Beats me, I hate learning a new OS 
More as all this congeals.

[Skuzzy]

i got a problem with warping
when i got my vista about a week ago i noticed everyone warped every 30 seconds or so.
any way to fix this?
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here is my net status

You just need to take a lot of time to clean up the background processes.  If you get them down to around 35 or so.  There are a couple of major CPU hogs in Vista.  The Aero interface,Super Fetch, and its brother ReadyBoost will suck the resources dry in Vista.

[james]

Brand new vista machine. Dual core Intel 2 ghz with 2gbddr and an ati1650 with 512 minute of ddr on it. 320gbhd. I have turned off defender, firewall, autoupdate and only have ah2 on it so far. Just got it Wednesday night. Was used to fr in the low 60s and got to the teens in a big fight with my old pc. Now I get fr at 74 75 no matter where I go. I get an occasional dip in fr to the upper 60s. This was one night for hours in main arena . If I give the os a diet will I see better fr? Surely titanic tuesday will be the real test. 
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[morfiend]

New system,vista home premium 64 bit. Have a problem with mic,with boost,it seems to have some background noise.If I turn boost off the noise goes away but mic volume is way to low.

 I'm using onboard sound,for now,installed sp1,finally got mic to work,sort of,atleast vista says it's configured.I'm still having a background noise with boost enabled. Anyone know of a fix???

 BTW saitek X52 profiler doesn't load to vista,they have a beta patch that seems to allow use of profiler,but the 3d graphix are gone and with it the ease of use.
 I've used ingame JS setup and configured almost everything as before,although I can't seem to get AH2 to "see" the scroll wheel on the throtle,ot should be button 32 but for some reason the game doesn't "see" it.One other thing,I cant assign anything to my mouse button on throtle either.

  If anyone has answers to these problems I would appreciate the help......
 

[TARGUT]

Morph,
I have a newer box that came with Vista, I gave up and went to XP. The only thing I had a lot of trouble getting to work was the mic. I also have onboard sound <HP>. I finally went to the control panel and turned mic volume to almost nothing, then in AH I turn it up in game. It is understandable although from time to time it will get "echo" and I have to use the .resetv command. You probably already know that you can tune to your own CPID on vox and hear yourself for tuning.
Good Luck!!
CYA Up
Targut
=GHOSTS= You Will Believe

[morfiend]

 Thx Targut,will give it a try....

 1 other thing I noticed, seems like at 3000  AGL I lose  all the terrain details,yes I have sliders set to max, Detail and 3 miles.Could this have something to do with the new rendering???

 I'm considering setting up a dual boot setup,Vista and XP although this seems to have some issues too.... Gates needs a dual boot to the nads.....

  What do you guys think??? dual boot setup or just scrap vista and install XP....

 I await all suggestions.....

[Skuzzy]

Consider Microsoft has already announced a replacement for Vista coming in the next 12 months I would not bother with Vista.

[Pannono]

You just need to take a lot of time to clean up the background processes.  If you get them down to around 35 or so.  There are a couple of major CPU hogs in Vista.  The Aero interface,Super Fetch, and its brother ReadyBoost will suck the resources dry in Vista.

fixed but thank you though

[Dragon]

Skuzzy,
SP1 is out, just wondering if you have an opinion on it(other than to avoid Vista at all costs).  I almost hate to do the install as my comp has been rock solid.

[Skuzzy]

The MIcrosoft Update will not allow our Vista box to install SP1.  Let me explain.  When I go to "Microsoft Update", there is no SP1 available for our Vista box, so I cannot tll you if it fixes anything or not.

I habe reported the problem to Microsoft, but have not heard of any resolution.

[Dragon]

Iv'e been working with Wonder a bit trying to get his Vista turd to behave and I knew you could run a DXDIAG on XP, but I wanted to try it on mine before I told him to run it on his and email it to you.  An error popped about DirectShow and of course windows said that I should install the SP1 as it fixes that error.  I just ran DX again and had it bypass the DirectShow and it worked.  I'll have him send you his report to look at.

[Skuzzy]

Many NVidia drivers will blow up in DirectShow.

[LTCClark]

Users can also scratch vista all together and install shadow copy of windows 2000 on a different hard drive.

This will require 2 hard drive machine, and will make it run so much better.

Install Hard drive in secondary master, or if its SATA dont worry about it.  Obtain Disk for windows 2000, and please people make sure its legal. *sarcasm added. 

Now lay the CD in and reboot computer, if the computer simply boots to vista then you have to change the BIOS settings of your computer, if you know my number call me, or send me a PM and I can help you on this.

Once the welcome screen appears, simply go through the steps.  However make sure that you have the second hard drive installed before proceeding I take no responsibility for your actions on this one.  The boot screen will appear and finally will ask you where you would like it installed  Choose your drive,  Usually D, for most computers however make sure that you already know the Gigabyte Size of the Drive, or MB size as well  1024MB = 1GB so use a calculator if necessary for larger or similar drives.

Now intall vista.  When your screen comes up now there will be a change, the computer will ask you which operating system you would like to boot into.  Windows 2000, or Windows Vista. Simply select windows 2000, install your drivers, and game software and whala your back to a clean version of windows 2000 on a Vista machine.  Twice the Processing power but very little resources used.  By the way, do the Microsoft windows updates before installing any drivers and make sure that you dont install anti-virus or firewall software as this will slow it down dramatically,  just dont let the kiddos or yourself surf those questionable websites.

Now, for some users who want to try this on 1 hard drive, this can be tricky and I encourage you to install multiple Operating Systems 1 for the game and 1 for every day life, however I warn you using partition editors, and other hard drive thingy softwares have bugs in them and can lead to disaster, however it can be done and its how I did it back in the olden days, about 10 years ago.  So read the instruction manual before proceeding and if lost do not expirement if you have vital data, no telling how many times I have been on housecalls becuase someone did not use the Help Files.

Enjoy and Send me Feedback.

[zarkov]

Got Vista and everything runs fine...except for major warping.

I'm guessing it's background processes.

I'm running off a plane-jane vanilla set-up.  What're the biggest memory hogs in the default out-of-the-box set-up?

[morfiend]

Zarkof:

  Read Skuzzy's report on disabling unneeded processes,there's plenty to shut down I think you can get vista down to 30-35 processes.

 may take some time to do and looking around to find it all isn't much fun,but will be worth it.