vista performance

cleric · 9 Sep 2008 at 19:35

On my xp pro sp2 OS my aquamark score was around 135,000 then i installed
vista home premium and my score dropped to 94,000 ok i knew vista had hardware/software/performance issues but i did'ent think it was that bad.
I turned off the windows areo and my score was still around 94,000,any suggestions.How about dual booting xp and vista is this difficult to do,xp for gaming vista for anything else..

Craig321 · 9 Sep 2008 at 19:39

Strange, when I installed Vista all my 3DMark/Aquamark etc. etc. scores were exactly the same. I have never had a problem with Vista performance.

Don't blame your problem on Vista too quickly...

What are your specs?

cleric · 9 Sep 2008 at 20:06

system
abit ip35 pro q6600@stock 2 gig OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-8500C5
8800 gt 512 mb vga
toughpower 750 w psu
samsung 300 gig sata hd
tuniq tower

Craig321 · 9 Sep 2008 at 22:04

Have you tested actual 'real-life' performance? Tested games and compared FPS etc?

cleric · 9 Sep 2008 at 22:21

only crysis at the mo not sure what fps i,m getting but optimum settings put all gfx on very high and is nice and smooth

Craig321 · 10 Sep 2008 at 01:13

See, that's one game that's running well

You can't tell your real PC performance by running benchmarks.

bledd · 10 Sep 2008 at 11:43

turn off defender real-time scanning, and wait for the pc to boot up properly in vista (check task manager and wait for free ram to reach almost 0) -this is superfetch, it's a good thing

lokkers · 10 Sep 2008 at 13:16

bledd. said:
wait for the pc to boot up properly in vista

Alternatively, use Hibernate instead of Shutdown - that way everything is already "Superfetched"