slow vista

I installed vista beta 2 on my P4 3.6ghz w/ 2gig DDR2 and a nvidia 6800 ultra 512mb. Vista is installed in a partition on a 10k rpm WD raptor. However, vista struggles to run smoothly w/ aero on, which is sucking up more than its fair share of ram/cpu. Sure it looks nice but dwm.exe takes up more resources than any 3d app/game on XP. I disabled search indexer and defraged my HD. My theroies are either driver based or the fact that the partition is very small (18gigs)
any help?

I suspect its just a case of the code not being optimized for performance. Vista is still in development and as we go forward we will continue to see the issues with performance, worked and better drivers help to make the experience much better.
I would report any issues you having in the mean time using the following links: For Feedback: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=55160
Feedback reporting tool: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=43655 -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Terrx" wrote in message

I installed vista beta 2 on my P4 3.6ghz w/ 2gig DDR2 and a nvidia 6800 ultra 512mb. Vista is installed in a partition on a 10k rpm WD raptor. However, vista struggles to run smoothly w/ aero on, which is sucking up more than its fair share of ram/cpu. Sure it looks nice but dwm.exe takes up more resources than any 3d app/game on XP. I disabled search indexer and defraged my HD. My theroies are either driver based or the fact that the partition is very small (18gigs)
any help?

I have it on a P4 3.0, 1GB RAM, ATI x800xt 256MB, and it's quick. My other box, a P4 3.6, 1GB RAM, Ati 9600 works quick, too.
It may be a driver issue. I am using IDE and not SATA like the Raptor. Your's should be hauling. It's not the partition size, either. I'm running on a 18GB, too.
It does use a lot of RAM, I'm using 530 of the 1GB, which is a lot, but it is still very responsive and loads quickly. It's slower than XP, but it's still fast.
Dustin Harper

"Terrx" wrote in message

I installed vista beta 2 on my P4 3.6ghz w/ 2gig DDR2 and a nvidia 6800 ultra 512mb. Vista is installed in a partition on a 10k rpm WD raptor. However, vista struggles to run smoothly w/ aero on, which is sucking up more than its fair share of ram/cpu. Sure it looks nice but dwm.exe takes up more resources than any 3d app/game on XP. I disabled search indexer and defraged my HD. My theroies are either driver based or the fact that the partition is very small (18gigs)
any help?

I am running on P4 3.0 ghz and 1 gig ram and it runs fine. I suspect you have a driver issue. "Terrx" wrote in message

I installed vista beta 2 on my P4 3.6ghz w/ 2gig DDR2 and a nvidia 6800 ultra 512mb. Vista is installed in a partition on a 10k rpm WD raptor. However, vista struggles to run smoothly w/ aero on, which is sucking up more than its fair share of ram/cpu. Sure it looks nice but dwm.exe takes up more resources than any 3d app/game on XP. I disabled search indexer and defraged my HD. My theroies are either driver based or the fact that the partition is very small (18gigs)
any help?