Windows Vista 5219 incredibly slow


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I clean installed the beta after using Beta 1 almost flawlessly on my 2nd grade hardware.

My test PC is as follows:

AMD 2400+ Sempron

1GB PC3200 Corsair memory

Geforce FX 5950 Ultra

SBLive Value 1024

Those are the basic hardware elements of my test system. Now the graphics and system is very slow and jerky overal. The install detected and installed my FX and I skipped installing the Live! because I don't care for garbled sounds

Beta 1 was a lot smoother, and I'm finding it difficult to just use at all (as a second machine).

Anyone else experiencing this?

I did a 2nd partition install on my main PC and hit the same problems.

Intel 3.2GHz HT CPU

1GB TwinX Matched Corsair

Geforce 6800

Audigy 2

I filed a bug report on it.

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Well to back you on this, I installed it on my spare pc, Celeron 2800 @ 3450, 512mb Generic DDR400, Geforce 6200 256mb, Asus P4PE, Soundmax onboard audio, WD 60gb PATA 7200 8mb cache.

It took at a guess, an hour to install, and operating it was at best "reasonable". I let Vista handle its own drivers using the xp compatiblity installer it ran just after install, putting in drivers for the video card.

Sound card wasn't operational, it thought I had an onboard Intel codec (Right, But wrong!)

And the graphics were "meh" as the drivers were the older ones they had from the XP compatiblity pack - I havent tried using nvidia's beta driver for Vista, yet.

Overall I thought it was a bit sluggish - but Im giving them the benefit here, I mean its only Beta 1-2 atm anyway.

Although my feeling is we're all going to need 4ghz cpu's with 2 gig of memory, 512mb video cards with 250 gig hard drives to run vista at any sort of decent speed....... Okay exagguration aside, it doesnt seem promising all the same.

I'm hoping Microsoft's push for extra speed WILL happen!!

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I think it's a known problem with 5219 where it is more sluggish compared to beta 1. All I could say is see in your tak manager and see if anything is eating up you CPU cycles.

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If your problem has to do with DWM, then my only advice would be to stop and restart uxss.exe ! It's kind of weird how it's running so slow on your machine, it's pretty decent and it should be able to run it correctly ...

You could also try to play around with the drivers. The only thing that got my NVIDIA Drivers to work was a 77.77 version for XP with EnableMachineCheck set to "0" ...

Anyways, good luck to you !

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More like the NVidia drivers suck like hell with 5219, because the LDDM changes that happened in that build screw up the drivers. Almost everyone that complained about it had NVidia cards. My system is snappier than with beta 1, and I run an ATI card.

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Maybe just remember yourself that 5219 is an interim build meaning it is not as polished as Beta 1 was and is just there to show new stuff, and where M$ is heading.

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I didn't notice too much speed trouble, and I even ran it in VMware.

Felt a little more sluggish than Beta 1, but I expected that due to me using Beta 1 "live".

- P4 2.6 GHz

- 512 MB RAM of 1 GB dedicated to VMware (sorry, don't remember clocking, it's the regular speed for my CPU though)

- GF 6600 GT

- SB Audigy LS

However, it doesn't use my actual vid card, but a virtual one being pretty basic, although moderately 2D accelerated when using the VMware Tools. So the reason I wasn't noticing anything special could either be because I was expecting slowness but it was actually slower than it should've been, or that it's driver related and didn't affect me because I was using mostly VMware emulated stuff that may not have been affected. I obviously didn't use DWM, just the pseudo-Glass UI.

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I used Vista Beta 1 (5112) and it worked perfectly on my system:

Athlon 64 3000+ s754

AsRock K8 Combo-Z

512Mb DDR RAM

Geforce 4 Ti4200 64Mb

occasionally it would slow down but i assumed it was my graphics card as i need an upgrade anyway, however, upon installing Vista 5219 it installed the x64 version and not the 32-bit as i would prefer and its unbelivably slow, i will have to get a 32-bit installation sorted and see if the speed is any faster!

Regards

MM

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