Vista running VERY slow.. slow mouse reponse, etc


Recommended Posts

Hey all. I just tried to install Vista on my axp 1600+, gf3 ti200, 768mb ddr, epox 8kha+, pioneer 106 dvdrw system and it's running like a dog.

After booting from the DVD to the install menu the mouse moves at what seems to be like 1 fps.. you move the mouse and itl skip across the screen instead of moving smoothly. after moving the mouse around a bit to navigate to Install Now, it takes about 4 or 5 hours to install fully. after booting into Vista the problem doesnt go away- mouse skipping all over the place, running EXTREMELY slow, like it's a celeron 266 or something

this computer previously had XP running fine on a seperate drive. for the Vista installation i'm using a formatted 20G IBM drive

i've tried disabling some stuff and resetting to defaults in the BIOS, and taking out network and tv tuner cards, but its still no go

Any ideas?

Cheers

Link to comment
Share on other sites

when i was shutting down it said something like "shutting down in 30 seconds"

... 5 seconds later 29 seconds

....5 seconds later 28

....5 seconds later 27

thats how slow it was

what could be causing it?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

i'm getting the same thing inside windows

installed it fine and it runs ok but everything is really jerky (as if inside a game set to too high settings)

task manager reports no strange CPU usage, there is no strange disc usage and my memory is reported as having 500mb+ free

athlon xp 1800+, 768mb ram, geforce 4 ti 4200 128mb, via mobo

Link to comment
Share on other sites

i'm getting the same thing inside windows

installed it fine and it runs ok but everything is really jerky (as if inside a game set to too high settings)

task manager reports no strange CPU usage, there is no strange disc usage and my memory is reported as having 500mb+ free

athlon xp 1800+, 768mb ram, geforce 4 ti 4200 128mb, via mobo

586308164[/snapback]

I've seen the same thing when I open up explorer and have a large amount of music or videos or pics in the folder I am openeing. After I leave it open for a while it does drop down. I think the slow down is from it going in and adding the little thumbs to everything. Just my guess.

dk2463

Link to comment
Share on other sites

yup sounds like the same thing here.. i did find a way (on accident) to make things run smoother in windows though.. i thought it could be my video card driver, so downloaded this: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_77.72.html If you download that and open it and leave it at the first screen, things will run fine (at least they did for me).

This is very weird, though. I'm also running an Athlon XP +1xxx(forgot for the moment). VIA mobo as well

Link to comment
Share on other sites

those computers are pretty bad to be running it. that could be the problem. remember this doesn't come out till atleast the end of next year. so it is made for the newest hardware out now.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

very unusual imo

while sitting there trying to move the mouse around properly a baloon popped up from the systemtray saying "your pc is not protected against viruses" or something (no network card so i'm not getting any viruses from anywhere) as soon as the baloon popped up the mouse movement was 100% smooth like it should be.. until i right clicked on the baloon tip to make it go away

then once again it ran just how dacbo said.. like a game with the settings up too high

Link to comment
Share on other sites

those computers are pretty bad to be running it. that could be the problem. remember this doesn't come out till atleast the end of next year. so it is made for the newest hardware out now.

586308202[/snapback]

I actually installed it on at 1.4GHz T-Bird system with 1GB of RAM and it ran fine. Only problem I have is that I had 3 NIC cards laying around and Vista doesnt have drivers for any of them (Kingston, 3Com and Intel) :(

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I have seen the same thing, P4-2.2 1 gig ram, Toshiba Sat-1955. Ran XP great, Vista runs good for a while then slows down, 2-3 hours.

I filed a bug report on this this morning.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Very fast for me as well. I'm on a slow ass Centrino with 512MB of RAM too..

586308253[/snapback]

saying it is fast and saying it runs much better than xp are totally different things.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Hi all

I'm having the same problem.

I think its in a debugging mode.

To test this, after its loaded the desktop and background services etc. If you dont move the mouse or touch the keyboard, does the hard-drive stop ???

And then when you move the mouse, the hard-drive should start writing data.

This is because, it might be writing every detail to a debug file, including mouse position movements etc.

Its just a thought.

There is a checked/debug version out. Do you have this version?

Anyone know how to disable this mode??

Any help

----- BTW, if you boot in safe mode, is it muchh much faster???

Its only a theory I have

:)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

my computer will hapily run most modern games at medium settings so i cant see why that should be the problem for windows being so jerky

i tried updating video drivers but that didnt work

Link to comment
Share on other sites

saying it is fast and saying it runs much better than xp are totally different things.

586308276[/snapback]

It's faster than XP 80% of the time. It does hang a lot though.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I am getting one of my svchost processes tying up 100% CPU. I kill it, but it starts leaking again. I looked at the list of tasks and there are quite a few services packed in their, so it's hard to pick out the root cause. I suspect it might be the AudioServ (Windows Audio) service.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

my processes are all fine - or so they seem

586312484[/snapback]

same here.. just can't move anything around.. every now and the it works smoothly for a few seconds and then back to jerkiness. i'm sure this will be fixed by the next released build (hopefully)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

This topic is now closed to further replies.
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.