Vista giving me awful FPS in all games.

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Bought a copy of vista 32bit (realise i should have got 64 bit now, wasnt thinking when i bought it :o) formatted and installed...

Runs great just around the OS, browing files etc, searching for things, installing anything... no problems at all BUT

As soon as i run any game(mainly WoW, CSS and TF2), i just get terrible game performace.... i have every latest up to date driver for vista and my hardware. I used to beable to play these games maxed out, even when i reduce the settings in game it just doesnt help.

pc spec...

ATI 256mb 1950 pro @ stock
AMD64 3500 @ stock
DFI LANPARTY UT ULTRA-D
Corsair XMS 2x1gb PC 3200
Maxtor 250gb

I have every vista update i just dont know what to do..... apart from roll back to XP but i really rather not...

Heres a couple of images that may help anyone giving advice...


task manager with wow running


dxdiag

Thanks for any help you can give,
Sean :confused:
 
heres what ive just done...

- installed the lastes dx9.0c
- rolled back to cat 7.3's from cat 7.10's
- reinstalled mobo drivers

just loaded up wow and it seems better.... but still not smooth :-(
 
just in alterac valley at the moment in wow and ive wacked all the video settings back up to max and it all seems very playable again.... :)

not sure what did it but thanks for the help guys! will hopefully report back with steam results soon

sean
 
Thanks for all the help guys :)

Well from talking to a few friends it seems that they have very similar problems untill they upgraded to dual core cpu's.

Im getting a steady 20-30fps in WoW now.... TF2 and CSS are a lil more stable, not as static as it was...

Guess i'll just have to be patient with it untill i do my big upgrade once the next gen gpu's hit the market.

Once again, thanks all :)
Sean
 
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