Possible fix for some of you with Vista and poor Graphic Card preformance low Fps

[Vmpwraith]

I just did this in vista http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935799.
I belive my problem was the power setting in Vista said Preformance in the area to change powersettings but was in fact set to ballance in the registry and was chocking my cards power. After applying this fix and setting the reg to preformance my FPS jumped from 6-15 to 45-50.There are probably a few more teaks out there but this has made a huge imporvement. Anyway its explained on the website and use it at your own risk, regedits can kill your machine.

edit a second fix for some with multiple cards maybe:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936710
" When a DirectX 10 application runs on a Windows Vista-based computer that has multiple graphics cards, the computer does not use the secondary graphics card"

[moosejaw]

Holy crap. Thanks vmp. This is something I never looked at. I didn't know the OS was even throttling like that. I am going to investigate my settings asap.

Thank you again for posting the Micro$oft link.

[sqeaky4100]

Totally seems like it helped me!

Tested in stormwind, and before the change I had 60fps, but it "stuttered" every few seconds...

After the change, I had 60fps, but it seemed far more smooth.



Mine said "Performance" in the Power Options too, but when going into Registery, it had the code for Balanced... WTF VISTA?!?!?! At least it's changed now

[Catamer]

I hate green.
I mean really, I would rather have the super charged Hummer of a PC than the prius of PCs.

I want the biggest baddest, fastest mo-fo they make.

oh yeah. I've got two

[keyclone]

cute... the control panel showed 'high performance' but the registry was set to 'balanced'. fixed. we'll see if it helps.

when i want to save power, i turn off the computer.

thanks for the heads up!!

:thumbsup:

[Vmpwraith]

Cheers. My Gt9600 was really underpowered but I knew my power sorce was not really good enough. I know there is another microsoft fix for running dual/ multi graphics cards in a vista machines.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936710
" When a DirectX 10 application runs on a Windows Vista-based computer that has multiple graphics cards, the computer does not use the secondary graphics card"

[EaTCarbS]

WoW! that made a difference! Thanks a bunch!

[ciscokid454]

Wow, mine was set to balance in the registry as well.
Good fine!

[Sajuuk]

Just checked it out (No real performance issues, but what the heck)

It was set to balanced. -_-

Thank ye!

[TeamGrizzly]

I'm using a 4870X2 so does this count as having multiple cards? Does the 2nd fix applies to me?