Vista is being slugglish

Gday

Gigabyte GA-M55SLI-S4
AMD Athlon 64x2 5200+
OS : Windows Vista Ultimate 32 bit
4 GB DDR2
Current GPU : Nvidia GeForce 9500 GT (passive cooled)

I don't know where to begin, I am having some major problems with Vista atm, however the thing that is bugging me the most, is the sluggish behaviour of vista, not only when opening a programme.

But more importantly to me anyways, is the latency I am having when I play Warcraft 3.... NB NOT WoW.

I have had Vista Installed now maybe 2 months 3 maximum. And I have never experienced lag playing Warcraft 3 like this before

From Furmark
[ SCORE: 642 o3Marks ] – Time: 60000 ms
Max GPU Temp: 45°C
Resolution: 1280x1024 (FS) – MSAA: 0X
FPS: min=10 max=16 avg=11
NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT
7.15.11.8250 (3-27-2009)
GPU-Z data not available
AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+
1005 MHz 3326 Mb
Windows Vista ver.6.0 build 6002 [Service Pack 2]

Any suggestions as to why Vista is being a snail?

fiery

By being sluggish Im assuming you dont mean high ping so lets start with looking in event viewer (type event in search) go to the windows logs>applications tab. Look for errors (they have red in the left column) that have the game listed. they are there. look for app hung, app crash, etc. when you find them tell us waht the event ID and cause codes are.

ken

Check out the diag suite in my sig. It will help to identify drivers and there is a guide using Event Viewer in there too. Run Malwarebytes and SAS too.

zigzag3143 said:

fiery

By being sluggish Im assuming you dont mean high ping so lets start with looking in event viewer (type event in search) go to the windows logs>applications tab. Look for errors (they have red in the left column) that have the game listed. they are there. look for app hung, app crash, etc. when you find them tell us waht the event ID and cause codes are.

ken

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There are no errors within the game itself. But where would you like me to start with the other errors

[FONT=verdana, arial, helvetica] Error 9/10/2009 5:26:41 AM Application Error 1000 (100)
Faulting application AUDIODG.EXE, version 6.0.6002.18005, time stamp 0x49e02218, faulting module audioeng.dll, version 6.0.6001.18000, time stamp 0x4791a639, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x00029381, process id 0x558, application start time 0x01ca480ec86aaafa.

Error 6/10/2009 8:18:08 AM Application Error 1000 (100)
Faulting application AUDIODG.EXE, version 6.0.6002.18005, time stamp 0x49e02218, faulting module audioeng.dll, version 6.0.6001.18000, time stamp 0x4791a639, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x000293a5, process id 0x540, application start time 0x01ca44e683c951ba.

Error 4/10/2009 8:43:23 PM Application Error 1000 (100)
Faulting application AUDIODG.EXE, version 6.0.6002.18005, time stamp 0x49e02218, faulting module audioeng.dll, version 6.0.6001.18000, time stamp 0x4791a639, exception code 0x80000004, fault offset 0x0000258b, process id 0x538, application start time 0x01ca43daf3acb416.

Error 25/09/2009 1:41:43 PM Application Error 1000 (100)
Faulting application AUDIODG.EXE, version 6.0.6002.18005, time stamp 0x49e02218, faulting module msvcrt.dll, version 7.0.6002.18005, time stamp 0x49e0379e, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x000098a8, process id 0x538, application start time 0x01ca3cddae14fff2.

Error 20/09/2009 2:18:46 PM Application Error 1000 (100)

Faulting application AUDIODG.EXE, version 6.0.6002.18005, time stamp 0x49e02218, faulting module audioeng.dll, version 6.0.6001.18000, time stamp 0x4791a639, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x000025bf, process id 0x4fc, application start time 0x01ca3998a2fcfc02.

Error 13/09/2009 1:50:55 PM Application Error 1000 (100)
Faulting application winamp.exe, version 5.5.6.2512, time stamp 0x4a4b9109, faulting module in_mp3.dll, version 0.0.0.0, time stamp 0x4a4b8fe8, exception code 0xc000001d, fault offset 0x000054b1, process id 0x9b8, application start time 0x01ca3421712e6e6c.

Error 12/09/2009 5:56:36 AM Application Error 1000 (100)
Faulting application AUDIODG.EXE, version 6.0.6002.18005, time stamp 0x49e02218, faulting module RtkAPO.dll, version 11.0.6000.85, time stamp 0x494f46bb, exception code 0x80000004, fault offset 0x001aa6a3, process id 0x54c, application start time 0x01ca33154441415c.

Error 11/09/2009 2:58:37 AM Application Error 1000 (100)
Faulting application winamp.exe, version 5.5.6.2512, time stamp 0x4a4b9109, faulting module unknown, version 0.0.0.0, time stamp 0x00000000, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x00000000, process id 0x914, application start time 0x01ca321a1f5f995d.

Error 11/09/2009 2:56:19 AM Application Error 1000 (100)
Faulting application AUDIODG.EXE, version 6.0.6002.18005, time stamp 0x49e02218, faulting module audioeng.dll, version 6.0.6001.18000, time stamp 0x4791a639, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x0002a9a3, process id 0x524, application start time 0x01ca31f2f1cec6ec.

Error 9/09/2009 10:58:48 PM Application Error 1000 (100)
Faulting application AUDIODG.EXE, version 6.0.6002.18005, time stamp 0x49e02218, faulting module audioeng.dll, version 6.0.6001.18000, time stamp 0x4791a639, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x00029371, process id 0x520, application start time 0x01ca314ab5b79ef2.

Error 9/09/2009 11:44:44 AM Application Error 1000 (100)
Faulting application AUDIODG.EXE, version 6.0.6001.18000, time stamp 0x47919284, faulting module ole32.dll, version 6.0.6001.18000, time stamp 0x4791a74c, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x0004f5cf, process id 0x518, application start time 0x01ca30edf8b3f5aa.
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Fiery

Well it looks like you are having audio problems and winamp problems

Do you have a backup we can restore from?

Do you have the vista dvd?

Is there anything on that HD that you cant live without?

zigzag3143 said:

Fiery

Well it looks like you are having audio problems and winamp problems

Do you have a backup we can restore from?

Do you have the vista dvd?

Is there anything on that HD that you cant live without?

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lolz @ a backup to restore from, I wish this has been happening since I installed Vista, and this is the second reinstall

Yes I own Vista Ultimate, and I have partitioned my drives........ and I know what your going to say next ....... reinstall ..... and I have been thinking about it ...... BUT I sooooooooo hate having to reinstall my own OS .... anyone elses like my husbands for example not a problem .... I just don't like having to do my own

Fiery said:

zigzag3143 said:

Fiery

Well it looks like you are having audio problems and winamp problems

Do you have a backup we can restore from?

Do you have the vista dvd?

Is there anything on that HD that you cant live without?

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lolz @ a backup to restore from, I wish this has been happening since I installed Vista, and this is the second reinstall

Yes I own Vista Ultimate, and I have partitioned my drives........ and I know what your going to say next ....... reinstall ..... and I have been thinking about it ...... BUT I sooooooooo hate having to reinstall my own OS .... anyone elses like my husbands for example not a problem .... I just don't like having to do my own

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Actually there are things we can still do. Just wanted to make sure you have dvd,etc in case.

First things I would do if I were you is to run a system file checker. to do that you go to start>search>type cmd>right click and run as admin>type sfc /scannow

let us know the results

Kken

Done no errors

Fiery said:

Done no errors

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Fiery

So vista is only "sluggish" in game/games? have you ever worked with performance monitor?

What I would like to do is set up some things to watch, let it run and then jump into the game. Play the game until it starts getting sluggish and save the performance monitor data.

What resolution and refresh rate are you using? full screen?

ken

(Resolution: 1280x1024 (FS) – MSAA: 0X
FPS: min=10 max=16 avg=11)

Just noticed this, the 9500GT at that Res should be averageing around 60FPS

Are you sure you have the right driver for the card installed? that may be causeing the excesively low FPS >.<

I know my 9800GTX pulls 120FPS on COD4, Considering the human eye can on see at 100FPS you wont be able to tell the difference between 100FPS and higher.

(Resolution: 1280x1024 (FS) – MSAA: 0X
FPS: min=10 max=16 avg=11)

Just noticed this, the 9500GT at that Res should be averageing around 60FPS

Are you sure you have the right driver for the card installed? that may be causeing the excesively low FPS >.<

I know my 9800GTX pulls 120FPS on COD4, Considering the human eye can on see at 100FPS you wont be able to tell the difference between 100FPS and higher.

Yes vista started sending smoke signals, after I installed the latest Nvidia driver, instead of using the one it wanted

Let's stress test your card. After benchmarking this, you can compare to the other video driver you liked.

Video Card Stability Test - Stress Testing & Benchmark the speed of your 3D graphics video card

You can check your bandwidth

CNET Bandwidth Meter: Online Speed Test - CNET Reviews

We can use Riva Tuner to tweak your card AFTER everything else has been resolved

RivaTuner v2.24c download from Guru3D.com

I always love to get the latest flash for the mobo bios. Have you done that?

Does your card run hot?

My mobo has the latest flash, and no the card sits on around 39C under load

From CNET 474.6 Kbps - You,

Please be aware I live in Australia and I use speedtest.net, there results were Ping =75ms, Download Speed 1.36mbs Upload = .18mbs, where I live we don't have cable :sa:

I scored 159 in the Benchmark test

Oh, I forgot to mention in the Nvidia Control Panel Under the Manage 3D settings I turned off Vertical sync, and the latency in Warcraft 3 has improved dramatically. As far a tweaking goes, I personally would rather not use the Riva Tuner.

zigzag3143 said:

Fiery said:

Done no errors

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Fiery

So vista is only "sluggish" in game/games? have you ever worked with performance monitor?

What I would like to do is set up some things to watch, let it run and then jump into the game. Play the game until it starts getting sluggish and save the performance monitor data.

What resolution and refresh rate are you using? full screen?

ken

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No not just during gameplay, overall Vista is being a slug, even basic apps like freecell take forever to open

Have you run a full system scan with Malwarebytes and Sophos Anti Rootkit? What is your main antivirus app? What starts up on startup? What programs do you have installed?

Snip a screenshot of that or install Windows 7 after formatting your hard drive.