October 24, 200619 yr I play some online games like FEAR and after I exit the game, Vista is slow to respond and the desktop takes a bit to return, anyone else notice that?
October 24, 200619 yr I noticed that on one of my machines but couldn't get it to duplicate on the others I tried, I was using FEAR too. All my machines which all have the same MB and ATI vid cards (800Pro's), except the one machine that exhibited the symptoms you describe which has an Nvidia card (GeForce 7900). Vid driver issue maybe???I play some online games like FEAR and after I exit the game, Vista is slow to respond and the desktop takes a bit to return, anyone else notice that?
October 24, 200619 yr I also have noticed this, not so much after gaming (exams at the moment no time to game), but the UI does slow down alot.I also have a nvidia card and think it is a driver issue.
October 25, 200619 yr it's a common effect when ram is all filled up and pagefile is used, when exiting an app or game it takes some time to unload data from that pagefile. This happens to me very often and it is very annoying, adding more ram will help a lot.
October 25, 200619 yr Yes, the recommended amount of RAM for Vista is 2GB, since Vista takes up more than half a gig by itself...
October 25, 200619 yr I can second that statement - on 1GB of RAM, I find Vista's speed to be lacking at times (and it usually corresponds to high RAM utilization). When I add another 1GB of RAM, all of those issues dissipate (Vista Ultimate will gladly eat 1.5GB of RAM at idle).
October 25, 200619 yr Author I can second that statement - on 1GB of RAM, I find Vista's speed to be lacking at times (and it usually corresponds to high RAM utilization). When I add another 1GB of RAM, all of those issues dissipate (Vista Ultimate will gladly eat 1.5GB of RAM at idle).It does?
October 25, 200619 yr Well, Vista does play with memory some, but I don't think this is a memory issue. All of my machines have 4GB of ram and while I don't notice the issue on the machines with the ATI vid cards, I do see it on the one machine with the Nvidia card. All are running Vista RC2, except for the one that I refomatted and put the Vista server on.
October 25, 200619 yr well i guess ram is the problem then. i have 2 gigs and no lagging. btw vista for me when idle uses about 550mb of ram.
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