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Offline Chalenge

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Re: Is my PC broken or is it vista?
« Reply #15 on: February 10, 2011, 02:31:07 PM »
We have seen this once before with someone in AH but I cant remember the fix. Its something fairly simple though. I searched and couldnt find it.

Your page file looks odd though.
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Re: Is my PC broken or is it vista?
« Reply #16 on: February 10, 2011, 02:35:18 PM »
Any damaged electronic hardware is capable of manifesting a multitude of problems/issues.
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Re: Is my PC broken or is it vista?
« Reply #17 on: February 10, 2011, 02:36:27 PM »
Fester,

  Are you running the game as admin? Did you disable the UAC?

 Try right clicking on the game shortcut and select "run as administator" see if this helps.


 I've been using Vista64 since it came out and has been for me a very stable OS,in 3 years I have only once reformatted and that was for hardware upgrades,read Skuzzy's tips for vista,disable all the needless stuff and if it's not a hardware issue you should have few issues running AH in vista.


  PS: google Ken Salter,he has a great program to help you configure Vista to run AcesHigh with the fewest background programs as possible.


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Re: Is my PC broken or is it vista?
« Reply #18 on: February 10, 2011, 02:40:06 PM »
I seem to remember that the problem was a GPU profile that was set incorrectly or that did not exist at all or maybe it was crossed up nHancer settings. I just cant remember exactly.
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Re: Is my PC broken or is it vista?
« Reply #19 on: February 10, 2011, 02:54:37 PM »
WIN!!! VICTORY!

Fester 1, Vista 0!!!

thanks a million skuzzy!!

i followed that tutorial of yours krusty posted and gutted vista to the bone instead of only "Superfetch"

using classic view etc I can now alt tab out of AH at will and loading times have still a bit of freeze but this is down to maybe 5-10 seconds instead of 45sec-1min.

in fact ah is minimized now and i havent bean discod :)

also the freeze from alt tabbing has been reduced by about the same margin of a 5-6 sec freeze instead of a 45sec white screen disconnect.


anyways thanks again and


tell bill gates windows 7 should be free to vista users lol.


btw whats uac? im in a disabling mood still lol
« Last Edit: February 10, 2011, 02:57:19 PM by Citabria »
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Re: Is my PC broken or is it vista?
« Reply #20 on: February 10, 2011, 02:58:43 PM »
Guess I should sticky that post again.
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Re: Is my PC broken or is it vista?
« Reply #21 on: February 10, 2011, 03:01:22 PM »
though a new problem has arrisen...

my mic is now all static lol
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Re: Is my PC broken or is it vista?
« Reply #22 on: February 10, 2011, 03:07:24 PM »
fixed... unplugged it and plugged it back in... i was considering the smash it with my throttle quadrant till it works but fortunately this method worked first  :D
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Re: Is my PC broken or is it vista?
« Reply #23 on: February 10, 2011, 04:22:52 PM »
UAC is the user account{certificate},basically it stops you from setting certain things up unless your an account adiministrator.

  I'm sure Skuzzy has it outlined in his tips/tricks for vista.It's been so long I forget exactly the steps.


  Alpicary{sp} Ken salters program can configure Vista to run with 30 to 35 programs in the background,out of the box vista has around 70 and I've trimed mine down to 50 or so.This will remove a large load from your CPU and free up resources that AH can use.


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Re: Is my PC broken or is it vista?
« Reply #24 on: February 10, 2011, 04:31:40 PM »
In Vista, you have to be careful with UAC (User Access Control).  You can only safely disable it immediately after an OS installation, before you do any updates.

If you disable it after the computer has some software and updates installed, it could break things all over the place.  The manifestations are really quite bizarre and inconsistent.

Also note, with Vista, you MUST disable any power management or you could suffer system lockups as that was borked in Vista.  So badly borked Microsoft decided the best way to fix it was to get rid of Vista and ship a new OS.  Well, at least that one of the many reasons Vista had to die.
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Re: Is my PC broken or is it vista?
« Reply #25 on: February 10, 2011, 04:47:37 PM »
And yet.... it lives on. And on... and on and on...


It's quite undead, really. And just about as pleasant as the undead, too!
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Re: Is my PC broken or is it vista?
« Reply #26 on: February 18, 2011, 09:01:51 AM »
Vista sucks for sure.

I have it on my laptop and it won't update...at all. Wanted to update to SP2 a while ago and it won't manually update or auto update at all.

Oh well, it's only my  laptop and due to be taken out golfing soon anyway.

RTR
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Re: Is my PC broken or is it vista?
« Reply #27 on: February 18, 2011, 09:24:23 AM »
Quote from: RTR on February 18, 2011, 09:01:51 AM
Vista sucks for sure.

I have it on my laptop and it won't update...at all. Wanted to update to SP2 a while ago and it won't manually update or auto update at all.

Oh well, it's only my  laptop and due to be taken out golfing soon anyway.

RTR
have you tried downloading the update as an executible and running it that way? Not sure if thats what you meant by "manually update"
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Re: Is my PC broken or is it vista?
« Reply #28 on: February 18, 2011, 09:26:21 AM »
Quote from: RTR on February 18, 2011, 09:01:51 AM
Vista sucks for sure.

I have it on my laptop and it won't update...at all. Wanted to update to SP2 a while ago and it won't manually update or auto update at all.

Oh well, it's only my  laptop and due to be taken out golfing soon anyway.

RTR

I had the same problem with our Vista computer.  The only way to fix it was to re-install Vista and grab the updates immediately after the installation.
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Re: Is my PC broken or is it vista?
« Reply #29 on: February 18, 2011, 11:07:47 AM »
Rgr that Skuzzy, It just isnt worth my time for my laptop.

Nothing that a good old nine iron couldnt fix :)

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