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| Guest | Vista SP1 + Games So when I first bought my Gateway laptop it came with Vista premium, and sure it looked all nice and shinny, but once I tried to install my games and play them I got punched in the face by Microsoft. I got horrible frame rate with ALL my video games. Of course I researched if my games were compatible with Vista, and even came to these forums with my cries for help, but no-one seemed to be able to help at all. I know its Vista that makes my games run like crap cause just a month ago I installed XP on my top and got perfect frame rate with all my games. The only reason I went back to Vista is because I couldn't find all the proper drivers for my laptop with XP since its built and only supports Vista. It makes me cry a little inside cause my girlfriend has a Gateway laptop with worse system specs, yet she gets alot higher frame rate cause she uses XP, QQ. So now comes to my topic; After all the research I did and tricks I tried to improve performance I heard, this was months ago btw, that there wa a service pack coming to Vista that would improve performance. So after hearing that and getting all hyped up I waited and waited... So now we come to today. I just installed SP1 and was kinda excited! Yay finally my games will run smoothly!...Nope the still run with crappy frame rate. Before anyone replies with anything like "Well what is your system specs?" as if this is the problem my games run bad, remember that I did state that with XP they ran perfect AND my computer is twice as good as my GFs but hers runs twice as good as me, QQ. And also remember that I did state that I've tried almost every trick in the book such as disable Win Defender, get latest drivers (ALL are up to date), Instal DirectX, lower visual effects, etc... After all the research I've done I saw that alot of peolpe with very nice computers that should run games full settings no sweat just lag up like hell with Vista, so they switched to XP. Too bad for me I can't do that cause my top only uses Vista. Its also kinda sad that in order to get an upgrade I have to downgrade to a lesser OS... So whats up Microsoft?? You guys gonna fix any of this soon? |
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| Guest | Re: Vista SP1 + Games Nice rant, but you're not talking to MS here, just other users like yourself. If you list your system specs, and which games you're running, perhaps someone can offer some help. -- Vista Home Premium 32 SP1 http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview "Ver!tas" <Vertas@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:22C63AD4-ACE8-4B3A-A14E-57BBB7A27C7A@xxxxxx
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| Guest | Re: Vista SP1 + Games "Ver!tas" <Vertas@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:7EE0437D-1ED8-46B4-8863-2D2D2295C143@xxxxxx
uses more resources, gaming on a laptop with Vista is a waste of time, get a proper gaming machine, that way you can play all your games, I know it's not what you wanted to hear but hey that's life -- VRG Scotty www.vistareadygames.com Register, it's free, and use the 'search for solution' tab for any problems | ||||||||||||
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| Guest | Re: Vista SP1 + Games "Kevin" <i.kevin@xxxxxx> wrote in news:A8020CB6-CF06-4B56-B49D-29F186B103C4@xxxxxx:
I had a guy bring in a 3 year old MSI lappy running Vista with 2gigs DDR ram and he could run Half-Life 2 at full detail around 30fps. A lot of those laptops you get at Best Buy with exception of a few gaming notebooks and the Dell XPS level systems, just bite. Only way to move notebooks is to sell them on the cheap. Customers will drive an extra 50 miles to save $20. Cheapest system i'd ever buy would be a low end white macbook. $1099, everything cheaper is worthless. -- -A. | ||||||||||||
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