Prole, anyone, help me find a fix for my Vista problems?

[Smooth Groove]

Plesae help me out!

[Smooth Groove]

Sorry for the bump but I guess Prole didn't see this or have a solution for my problems.

I keep getting lots of hard disk activity randonmly in Vista which is really annoying when I'm trying to play a game.   I don't see any spyware or virus scan either when the HD activity is going on.  Everything is ok once I log into XP so I know it's not a hardware problem.  Can someone who's knowledge about Vista please help me out? 

[brawndolicious]

the problem is that it's vista.

[Mupepe]

the problem is that it's vista.

[T234]

Fuck it, I wish I had a machine to INSTALL VISTA ON!

[Fragamemnon]

You have a GTX, right? Is this Vista 32-bit?

If so, did you put on the Vista gaming hotfix related to virtual memory addressing?

[Smooth Groove]

You have a GTX, right? Is this Vista 32-bit?

If so, did you put on the Vista gaming hotfix related to virtual memory addressing?

I'm using 64bit so that I can access all 4gbs of my ram.  Damn, I think you might have found the problem.  The fix won't install on the 64bit vista.   

the problem is that it's vista.

Except for this problem, Vista has usually ran well for me.  Gaming performance is a little less than XP's but Vista's new features make it the OS that I use most. 

[Polari]

I used Vista for the first time yesterday. There were drawing issues despite it being a brand new laptop. Not impressed.

[brawndolicious]

Except for this problem, Vista has usually ran well for me.  Gaming performance is a little less than XP's but Vista's new features make it the OS that I use most. 

yeah while I can understand that DX10 will eventually be the shit right now some games get really poor implementation of it and actually run worse (company of heroes.)

I probably wouldn't have a vista computer until next year anyways though.

[MrAngryFace]

I have umm 4 vista machines in my house, and all run awesome. IN UR FACE

[Fragamemnon]

I'm using 64bit so that I can access all 4gbs of my ram.  Damn, I think you might have found the problem.  The fix won't install on the 64bit vista.   

The problem doesn't exist on 64-bit Vista because the avaiable address range for the operating system is large enough to accomodate the video card. There shouldn't need to be a fix for this on 64-bit Vista.

Does this happen in all games? I can't help but think if there is significant hard drive activity then there HAS to be something going on with virtual memory getting all crazy on you.

[Smooth Groove]

I'm using 64bit so that I can access all 4gbs of my ram.  Damn, I think you might have found the problem.  The fix won't install on the 64bit vista.   

The problem doesn't exist on 64-bit Vista because the avaiable address range for the operating system is large enough to accomodate the video card. There shouldn't need to be a fix for this on 64-bit Vista.

Does this happen in all games? I can't help but think if there is significant hard drive activity then there HAS to be something going on with virtual memory getting all crazy on you.

It's not a game problem.  There's just random HD activity in the background that interferes with whatever I'm trying to do.  It's gone away again for now.  I hate it when I don't even know what was causing the problems. 

I have umm 4 vista machines in my house, and all run awesome. IN UR FACE

Help me out then, jerk, or ask someone who would know at MS. 

[drozmight]

I just bought Vista today.

I don't feel like installing it right now though.

[brawndolicious]

why'd you "buy" vista?  did you get a new computer?

[drozmight]

I also bought Halo 3.


AND Office 2007.

[aoi tsuki]

I also bought Halo 3.


AND Office 2007.

Whore for Microsoft confirmed. i wouldn't buy Vista in its current state. It's much better to take advantage of the Vista "trial" to see if it's worth bothering with.

[drozmight]

TAKE IT BACK!

[Synbios459]

the problem is that it's vista.

QFT.