Vista Aero - Is this the cause for the slowdown?

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Kryptonic · #1 Post by **Kryptonic** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 2:58 am

Hi guys,

I have a T61 with an nvs140m 128mb.... everytime i go into flip3d, there is a small pause before it brings all the windwos up fully, it looks like lag, but once its up i can spin through very fast.... if i pull them up again its still very fast.... however, if i leave it 30second or so its laggy again...... ive updated BIOS, drivers, windows, everything!

Because im running my res at 1680x1050, wouldnt that occupy more than 128mb on flip3d? so would the 3d card try and use some of computers main memory? i have 3gig so that shouldnt be a problem.... hooooowever, in task manager, it says vista is using 1.2gig, accept i only have a few meg free? How am i running out of memory? i have 3gig and vista only using 1.2gig...

Would this be the cause for the random slow downs? it seems to effect it more if i have this IE window open full screen.....

Cheers guys
Will

Pocket Aces · #2 Post by **Pocket Aces** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 7:11 am

You're running the minimum system requirements for Aero

Kryptonic · #3 Post by **Kryptonic** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 7:13 am

you're joking

£1400 and its still minimum spec... id rather send it back if thats the case!

it gets 4.0 for Aero rating tho...

Pascal_TTH · #4 Post by **Pascal_TTH** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 7:40 am

Kryptonic wrote:you're joking

£1400 and its still minimum spec... id rather send it back if thats the case!

it gets 4.0 for Aero rating tho...

Just buy some R61 for 850 €. All specs are the same as T61 except screen 15,4" 1680x1050 not 14" 1440x900.

Core 2 Duo T7100, Quadro NVS 14m, crappy 5400 rpm drive, 1 x 1 GB, DVD burner, HDD airbag, fingerprint and so on.

I can't help now because I run Windows XP now. I will have a look later, time to swap hard disk.

PS : Best for Windows Vista Aero : Intel GMA 950 from Lenovo 3000 N100 (488 €) : 5,1 !!! It rocks [censored] fast...

http://www.tt-hardware.com/img/news5/news260807_2.gif

Kryptonic · #5 Post by **Kryptonic** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 9:39 am

omg LOL, that really does take me pi55!! lol

i always thought the GMA 950 was really really naff!

Im starting to regret buying the T61 now

Kryptonic · #6 Post by **Kryptonic** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 9:40 am

PS: Pasca, i considered migrating to XP from Vista.... IBM wanted £40 for the XP cd.... Do you know a decent XP installtion guide? i had a go bit it ended in tears and blue screens lol

pappcam · #7 Post by **pappcam** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 11:23 am

Pocket Aces wrote:You're running the minimum system requirements for Aero

Completely wrong.

He's way over the min. requirements for Aero. The GMA3000 or 3100 runs Aero as well, but performance might take a hit in that case.

Pascal_TTH · #8 Post by **Pascal_TTH** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 2:33 pm

Kryptonic wrote:PS: Pasca, i considered migrating to XP from Vista.... IBM wanted £40 for the XP cd.... Do you know a decent XP installtion guide? i had a go bit it ended in tears and blue screens lol

Done here : http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=50187

Pascal_TTH · #9 Post by **Pascal_TTH** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 2:36 pm

pappcam wrote:
Pocket Aces wrote:You're running the minimum system requirements for Aero
Completely wrong.

He's way over the min. requirements for Aero. The GMA3000 or 3100 runs Aero as well, but performance might take a hit in that case.

Any DirectX 9.0 Shader model 2.0 GPU with 128 Mo can handle Aero Glass. GMA 950 can do it and it does it fine.

Kryptonic · #10 Post by **Kryptonic** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 2:43 pm

*sobbing*

i dont get why its really laggy lol, ive tried about 5 different drivers and they all do the same :@

im tempted to get a recovery DVD from IBM and reload it to see what difference is!

Pascal_TTH · #11 Post by **Pascal_TTH** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 3:07 pm

Did you have a lot of bloatware or background applications ? 3D flip windows is not so heavy application. Try to disable power play from the Quadro driver. Most time, it clocks down to 182 MHz and when power is requiret, it needs a few second to switch to full power.

Kryptonic · #12 Post by **Kryptonic** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 3:18 pm

oooooooooooo how do i do that???

Pascal_TTH · #13 Post by **Pascal_TTH** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 3:25 pm

Right click on desktop, nvidia control panel (or something like that), thus it can be very different from one driver rev to an other. Look at PowerMizer and set it disable. You have to search, I'am on the T60p now.

rhema83 · #14 Post by **rhema83** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 9:33 am

You're way past the min requirement. Don't worry. Even my T42 runs Aero glass decently.

Kryptonic · #15 Post by **Kryptonic** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 9:37 am

im just going to disable it lol

my recovery dvd should be here in a couple days so ill reload it on a different HDD and see what the performance is like...

ill just stop using flip3d

Vista Aero - Is this the cause for the slowdown?

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