- Jul 24, 2000
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A friend of mine bought Vista Home Premium unknowningly his motherboard is based on the nForce3 Ultra chipset. After installing and updating using Windows Update, he got the sound to work (Windows Update automatically installed the drivers since it wasn't detected BEFORE the update). Every other devices also work properly. However, the overall performance is terrible. It's unbearable compared to my desktop.
He has:
* nForce3 Ultra chipset motherboard (maybe Biostar)
* 1.5GB of RAM PC3200 (DDR)
* Athlon 64 (the slowest one) Socket 939
* An older 128MB NVidia GeForce AGP video card (don't remember which)
Problems:
* Aero works fine, but the animation is not smooth at all. Dragging any window is very choppy. Minimizing and maximing are also choppy.
* Doing multitasking such as listening to music or watching video while using torrent causes stuttering.
* Overall, very sluggish compared to XP SP2.
Is there anything that he can do to improve the performance? I am thinking of installing the two leaked hotfixes from MS earlier (reliability and performance KB938194 and KB938979). It seems this is most likely a chipset issue or driver issue. Even my 3-yr-old laptop supports Vista flawlessly. NVIDIA :|
We'll probably have to go back to XP.
He has:
* nForce3 Ultra chipset motherboard (maybe Biostar)
* 1.5GB of RAM PC3200 (DDR)
* Athlon 64 (the slowest one) Socket 939
* An older 128MB NVidia GeForce AGP video card (don't remember which)
Problems:
* Aero works fine, but the animation is not smooth at all. Dragging any window is very choppy. Minimizing and maximing are also choppy.
* Doing multitasking such as listening to music or watching video while using torrent causes stuttering.
* Overall, very sluggish compared to XP SP2.
Is there anything that he can do to improve the performance? I am thinking of installing the two leaked hotfixes from MS earlier (reliability and performance KB938194 and KB938979). It seems this is most likely a chipset issue or driver issue. Even my 3-yr-old laptop supports Vista flawlessly. NVIDIA :|
We'll probably have to go back to XP.