RPGexpert,

Your CPU usage depends largly on how much you have running at one time.
You must also consider all of the background services that Vista is
running to. The more you have running, the higher the average CPU usage
is.

It should not have an affect on the lag time unless you start maxing
out your CPU towards 100%.


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Alright was just wondering but thats Idle CPU time also I just watch the
performance when nothing is running and its around 20 to 30, but hardly
if ever have I seen it go up to 100% so I guess everything is alright.
Thanks again Brink sorry for reviving an old thread ha ha


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RPGexpert

No problem RPGexpert, 20 to 30% is a bit high for idle. You might check
in '*Resource Monitor*'
(http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/11...e-monitor.html) under
the CPU category to see what all is using the CPU when you are idle.


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have you resolved this problem?

I have the same situation here

my conf is:
intel q6600
gigabyte p35-ds3r
2x2 GB Geil
Asus gf6800gt
Sound Blaster Audigy 2
150gb raptor(jmicronSATA), 2x500gb wd

windows xp x64 works fine, but in vista ultimate x64 everything is so
choppy like you said, but not only aero, all 3d programs-games as well,
sometimes I also get some artefacts in opera and firefox.

I tried several versions of nvidia drivers, different bios versions
including latest f13a, memory configurations-single and dual channel,
6gb and 8gb, and it was even worse.

Only solution that I could find is to set manually maximum memory in
msconfig to 3584. After that everything works perfectly, no matter if I
put 4,6 or 8gb in mobo.

Can anyone tell me what is this about?? Ill try to remove audigy
tomorrow, to see if maybe that is the cause.


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Yeah my speed issues seemed to be resolved, but after vista did a few
more updates I started getting errors like crazy on just about
everything. Yahoo messenger even crashed my computer everytime I opened
it because of DEP. And I even turned DEP on and off as admin over and
over and restarted but I could never access it to change any options in
it.

So overall after all this... I've reformatted installed vista AND XP
and am currently dual booting both. I'm on XP right now but I'll switch
over to vista once I feel its finally fixed... which will probably be
never.


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