Vista on NF2?

postmanfw · 7 Mar 2007 at 18:59

Has anyone else had any experience running vista on a nf2 board?

Got it running on my NF7 and its works fine for every day stuff but not when it comes to gaming. Its not just the drop in fps its also stuttering badly.

Quite happy as i wasnt expecting it to work at all going by things i have read elsewhere about there being no drivers for nf2. Obviously the ones its running on aren't doing the job properly but good enough to run it.

Priapus · 8 Mar 2007 at 06:37

System specs, how much RAM do you have?

postmanfw · 8 Mar 2007 at 07:46

Rig as per sig. I know i probably need more ram but socket A doesnt like more than a gig.

Physical ram usage not hitting 100% either during games. Using rthdribl as a test program and results are the same with that. Fps goes from 40 in xp to 27 in vista but its really jerky motion and ram usage is only at 60%.

caister · 8 Mar 2007 at 10:31

I had to add another GB of ram before games played smoothly with vista. I only had 1Gb like yourself and as you said it was fine for everyday things but games wouldnt run too well unless the graphics were turned down.

Priapus · 8 Mar 2007 at 11:19

postmanfw said:
Rig as per sig. I know i probably need more ram but socket A doesnt like more than a gig.

Physical ram usage not hitting 100% either during games. Using rthdribl as a test program and results are the same with that. Fps goes from 40 in xp to 27 in vista but its really jerky motion and ram usage is only at 60%.

Ah, don't have sigs turned on, sorry. Well, I would say it's either graphics or memory.

postmanfw · 8 Mar 2007 at 11:22

Oh well. I was hoping it was just a chipset problem due to lack of proper drivers from nvidea.
Will borrow a couple of gig sticks of a mate and see if that sorts it out. Dont fancy my chances of overclocking to present level with that in though.

Rebelius · 8 Mar 2007 at 12:38

I had beta 2 running on my AN7 and the onboard sound and LAN worked fine too. Could play Guild Wars happily enough, this was back last summer when I was at my parents' I think.

Don't have that rig here to test now though.

Phil99 · 8 Mar 2007 at 15:42

Got 2GB RAM running perfectly stable on my A7N8X-E NF2 board, though by the looks of it you're overclocking quite a bit so you might have to drop the clocks a bit as 2GB really can be useful with some of the latest games.

However, I'd put it down to early graphics drivers really, might be worth waiting until the graphics drivers get improved as the built-in chipset drivers should be fine.