Vista - Vista running Steam

My computer build is
mother bored P5P800
Pentium4 3.0ghz
2G RAM
Nvidia 7600GS
The problem I have right now is when I play CSS or HL2 or any of the games
from Steam. I'll be getting average of 15fps and 70Choke on FPS with 10lost
every sec... even when I turn down the setting to the lowest. I went on
Nvidia and up date the latest version, but still the problem was there. I
tried to installing the CD that came with the video card but it wasn't
compatible...any ideas how to fix this problem

Well, note that nVidia is having problems with their drivers under Vista.
The 7 and 8 families seem to be getting the worst of it. You problem seems
fair extreme, even for the driver issue.

Did you try running the game as administrator ? (right click on te desktop
shortcut for steam and choose Run As administrator.

Also check your windows firewall settings, might also consider turning it
off for a bit..

I've played a fair amount of CS, CSS and HL2:EP1 and I can tell you it does
work fine under Bista. One difference is I have an ATI card. The only nVidia
card I have is a 6800GT, and I don't have any issues with it either, though
I haven't tested as much with it


"Joe Lo" <Joe Lo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6F22B099-8950-4B90-8CDE-09E66D239638@microsoft.com...
> My computer build is
> mother bored P5P800
> Pentium4 3.0ghz
> 2G RAM
> Nvidia 7600GS
> The problem I have right now is when I play CSS or HL2 or any of the games
> from Steam. I'll be getting average of 15fps and 70Choke on FPS with
> 10lost
> every sec... even when I turn down the setting to the lowest. I went on
> Nvidia and up date the latest version, but still the problem was there. I
> tried to installing the CD that came with the video card but it wasn't
> compatible...any ideas how to fix this problem
>

I try running the game as administrator like you told me, and even turning
off the firewall and everything...but still I'm having trouble with the
fps...I guess no CSS for me hahaha~>.< o and another thing. Where is the
fastest way to check my video card version? I know I have the latest one,
just wondering where to check it...on my comp

I believe in the Control Panel you can find this information. Open up the
control panel and under help, select System Information. What you want to
look for is the ForceWare version number.

Now, mind you, this is me looking at it from XP on my laptop. My Vista
machine has an ATI card and Half Life 2 screams at full detail at 1280x1024.
When I had an nVidia card, I ran into a multitude of issues, such as videos
not displaying correctly (such as in Neverwinter Nights) and poor performance
compared to ATI, so I switched to an ATI X1950 Pro and I've been happy ever
since.

The issue is definitely the drivers. nVidia is still working on them. It
just seems that ATI has a better set of drivers in my honest opinion.

Otherwise, there's not much that can be done other than constantly checking
the nVidia web site to see if they've updated their drivers lately.


"Joe Lo" wrote:

> I try running the game as administrator like you told me, and even turning
> off the firewall and everything...but still I'm having trouble with the
> fps...I guess no CSS for me hahaha~>.< o and another thing. Where is the
> fastest way to check my video card version? I know I have the latest one,
> just wondering where to check it...on my comp

They don't make it very easy to find.

You can go to Control panel, and then nVidia control panel, then go to help
and choose System information. The first line in the right pane is forceware
version, which should be something like 101.65 or 111.41

"Ivan Samuelson" <IvanSamuelson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:285039F3-F817-4FFD-8586-71B199A17485@microsoft.com...
>I believe in the Control Panel you can find this information. Open up the
> control panel and under help, select System Information. What you want to
> look for is the ForceWare version number.
>
> Now, mind you, this is me looking at it from XP on my laptop. My Vista
> machine has an ATI card and Half Life 2 screams at full detail at
> 1280x1024.
> When I had an nVidia card, I ran into a multitude of issues, such as
> videos
> not displaying correctly (such as in Neverwinter Nights) and poor
> performance
> compared to ATI, so I switched to an ATI X1950 Pro and I've been happy
> ever
> since.
>
> The issue is definitely the drivers. nVidia is still working on them. It
> just seems that ATI has a better set of drivers in my honest opinion.
>
> Otherwise, there's not much that can be done other than constantly
> checking
> the nVidia web site to see if they've updated their drivers lately.
>
>
> "Joe Lo" wrote:
>
>> I try running the game as administrator like you told me, and even
>> turning
>> off the firewall and everything...but still I'm having trouble with the
>> fps...I guess no CSS for me hahaha~>.< o and another thing. Where is the
>> fastest way to check my video card version? I know I have the latest one,
>> just wondering where to check it...on my comp

Good new and bad new...
Good new is I just found out my problem...
The bad new is the version I have is 101.41...which is not in any number
close to the newest one...hahaha
any idea where I can find the new driver for 32x???

101.41, is technically the latest Beta release from nVidia. The Official
release is 100.65 (http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_100.65.html)

If you want to live a little on the edge, you can download. some of the
other beta drivers at http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1600


"Joe Lo" <JoeLo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EEDB907D-AAB4-44E6-9845-B18B2CF12C68@microsoft.com...
> Good new and bad new...
> Good new is I just found out my problem...
> The bad new is the version I have is 101.41...which is not in any number
> close to the newest one...hahaha
> any idea where I can find the new driver for 32x???