Vista - Anyone Experience Performance Decrease?

Hi,

I've installed Vista recently on my old hdd and after few days I started to notice strange things, during some time whille vista is running (like 20 hours), when I download anything (even at 200 KBs), music starts to stuck every 20 secs or so, when loading video and playing at same time, this happens even more often.

I thought it's my HDD so bought Caviar Black and after installing Vista, few days it was running fine, then again, today I start to experience the same thing.

It's probably memory management in your browser...IE and FireFox both have issues releasing used memory...
Re-boot once in awhile.

Yep, that happens to me when I try to browse and play music at the same time, more so when I am using WMP, if I use any other player, the hiccups seem to be cut to a minimum.

I know is a memory probelm but I just don't know how to manage it and since I don't do that often, I just discard it but, I sure would love to find an answer for it so I'll be looking at this post often.

Hm, maybe it's RAM issue? Should I just change with a new pair?

I don't think that it's memory management (unless you mean Vista's?), closed Opera, opened after few hours and while ~30 tabs were loading, my mouse kept stucking.

P.S. I run x64 on 2 GB RAM

Its RAM. 2 gigs is MINIMUM to use Vista, let alone get good performance out of it. Plus, with x64 you may as well get more. I browse and listen to music (like right now) and I have no problem w/e.

Try grabbing 2 more gigs, it is only about $60 now its a good deal

~Lordbob

Hi,

I actually forgot to say (sorry) that same happened on x32 Vista to my friend. What I found is:

Try SATA 4 (haven't yet) and some said that it can be due to Vista's DNS stuff. Need to set it manually, although I always do that. But yes, I notice that it happens when I d/l something from the internet (pages, youtube loading, files, etc)

Yeah well more RAM should fix it. Once again, 2 gigs is the MINIMUM Vista NEEDS to run. Just run, not perform.

~Lordbob

Hi,

I am now on SATA4 port, will check how it goes. For now it's ok, because it always work after reboot normally.

Bought 2 GB more RAM. Still same.

What are the rest of your system specs?

~Lordbob