Windows 7 Ultimate 64 - Slow and broken.

Duderooni · 6 Jun 2011 at 02:01

Well to show my journey of failure from XP to Windows 7 in greater depth, I've uploaded a video of my pc trying to load Outrun 2006 here. There is no hard disk thrashing or.. Well anything really, its weird. As I said in the OP, on XP the level would load in like 5 seconds on my old seagate HDD. This is the sort of time it should usually take! I've tried putting that relic back in here as a secondary drive with the game on it and it takes just as long (over 30 seconds), so the guilty party definitely seems to be Windows 7 and not the disk drive.. Has anyone else had problems where they've noticed game performing worse after upgrading to windows 7 and what did you do to fix the issue?

Phatjayunoi · 6 Jun 2011 at 02:50

With regards to OutRun 2006, you aren't alone with the long loading problem and I really have no idea what is wrong as well to be honest. Running Windows 7 x64 on a Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB myself.

It's certainly not the hard drive or anything else in my system since everything is running perfectly fine. I even installed the game on another partition on the same hard drive which is running Windows XP and it loads very quick.

So yeah, I guess it is just Windows 7 and old game compatibility problems.

Duderooni · 6 Jun 2011 at 03:09

Phatjayunoi said:
With regards to OutRun 2006, you aren't alone with the long loading problem and I really have no idea what is wrong as well to be honest. Running Windows 7 x64 on a Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB myself.

It's certainly not the hard drive or anything else in my system since everything is running perfectly fine. I even installed the game on another partition on the same hard drive which is running Windows XP and it loads very quick.

So yeah, I guess it is just Windows 7 and old game compatibility problems.

Yeah it seems to be the case, I'm glad someone else is having the same problem so its less of a risk that I have some form of hardware failure.. Strangely enough, I've just been trying to run the game in 'compatability mode' for XP and its no different. :confused:

Margaret · 6 Jun 2011 at 06:55

tronath said:
I've used both 7 and XP, but I still use XP because its more responsive. Updating to W7 SP1 hasn't improved it, and microsoft noted that no performance increases should be expected from it either..

How strange. XP has lagged behind 7 on every machine I've put it on. All with 2Gb of ram or more of course.

Duderooni · 6 Jun 2011 at 22:31

Well my 8gb of memory came, doesn't work properly. Should have guessed really shouldn't I.. Haha. Here is a thread I've made regarding my latest and greatest hiccup with Windows 7. Bloody nightmare.

theheyes · 6 Jun 2011 at 22:50

I'm not saying more RAM wouldn't give you an all-round improvement, but it's almost certainly not the issue. I've been using 2GB for YEARS and never suffered, I'm not much of a gamer but I play the odd one every now and again and it's never been an issue (Res Evil 5, Civ5 etc.)

Have you overclocked the system at all? And did you upgrade with the overclock in place?

Duderooni · 7 Jun 2011 at 16:31

An update - I've reinstalled Windows 7 64 with my 8Gb of RAM inserted and its actually working now. Turns out it was an ancient USB modem tripping the system over. That'll teach me for using prehistoric components.

So now all the components seem to be sorted, and lack of ram isn't an issue, Ive been trying to look into why my version of windows 7 seems sluggish. I've done a few tests and come up with some interesting results. I'll use the setup file of CPUZ as an example of the issues I'm experiencing, this is what happens:

When ONLINE - I double click the .exe file and the cursor turns into a spinning circle for aprox 4-5 seconds.. Then the setup screen comes up and I can proceed as normal.

When OFFLINE - I double click the .exe file and the cursor turns into a spinning circle for a split second, then the setup screen comes up, etc.

So I've come to the conclusion its searching online, or communicating with something which is slowing everything down. I have my routers firewall on, as well as the windows one, so I'm doing my best trying to stop this. Or maybe this is the problem? It's taking longer doing whatever its doing because I've blocked it? I'm really baffled about this, why do MS (or someone more sinister) need to know when I'm running setup files? What are peoples thoughts, do you agree that this is problem or is it something else? And has anyone else noticed this problem themselves?

PhillyDee · 7 Jun 2011 at 17:59

Sounds to me like you have UAC turned off. Usually clicking a setup file would prompt you to enable the administrator rights, and then carry on. Try turning the UAC to recommended and see how you get on (One below maximum)