Install XP = Slow PC

[Madtripper]

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After I watched a friend of mine test drive winxp for a month, I decided to upgrade. I have to admit, at first I was impressed with microslob's latest piece of work. Now I am 3 weeks into my test drive and cannot seem to overcome the sluggish performance.

Just to give a little insight:

AMD 1100 Athlon Socket A
512 M of ram
Abit Kt-7 Mobo
7200 rpm hdd Maxtor
Radeon 64 M/ddr vivo


I have d/l and installed all the latest drivers for everything. Unreal tourney is a prime example where as it use to run 80 fps on 98se, now dropped to 50 or so. Enough to really affect my game play.

If this is familiar and you have found an answer, let me in.


Tripper

 

[HexVector]

The whole OS is "sluggish" or just that one game where the FPS dropped? Also, was it at 80 when you first installed XP or did it just recently decide to
drop to 50FPS for some reason?

Its been several weeks since I had XP Pro and I have similar setup as you. If anything my performance increased, those new Detonator XP drivers make all the difference.

 

[Madtripper]

 

[Madtripper]

 

[Madtripper]

I was running win98se b4. That is when the game ran the best. Of course it would lock up occasionally but I wouldn't expect any less from 98. Anyway, the whole os runs sluggish, this game was just an example. Sometimes my mouse even reacts slowly and I don't have much going on.


Hex, you mentioned detonator drivers??? I'm not very familiar with xp yet but are these included within xp or something you picked up afterwards?

thanks

 

[Insidious]

The Detonator Drivers are for Nvidia video cards, so that isn't gonna be what you want for a radeon.

It does sound like either your game or your video card/video drivers don't like XP too much. I'd tend

to suspsect a compatability issue with your video if your entire system is slowed. I don't think that is a common experience

for people who switch to XP. It hasn't been my experience anyway (for whatever that's worth).

I'm in the middle of giving XP a test whirl myself (only had it a couple weeks so far)

I like what I'm seeing so far, but my hardware is a bit different from yours.

Good luck to ya! If it's just a compatability thingy, there may be some patch available from ATI or MS.

are you sure about the versions/compatability of the stuff you said you downloaded?

Another thought:

UT ran kinda funny when I first went to XP. I switched over to D3D and it runs better than ever.

er.... except I have a wierd sound thing where if I play, quit and play again without a shutdown, the voices get distorted????

very repeatable, but I just remember to only play that particular game once per boot. So far that is the only wierdness I've seen with XP

 

[brianp34]

I've had a lot of trouble with my radeon (64 meg VE, not a great gaming card I know) under XP. Gaming performance in CS and the like did seem to drop dramatically when I switched to XP, but the benefits more than outweigh that for me. Have you considered dual booting with XP and 98? I'm by no means an advanced user and even I was surprised as to how easy it was to set up. Just an idea.

Brian

 

[Duster]

Hi,
I find XP very slow in games IE ive lost 1200 3D marks in Mad Orion 2001 benchmark. I'm going back to my old O/S (ME).
Win ME didn't crash that much for me anyway. I may try XP in 6 months, when they have some fixes for it.