4boxer to 5, FPS drops massive?

[HPAVC]

I would get a copy of Windows7 somehow, its just that much better.

Else I would run perfmon and look and see what your processor utilization is and possibly paging. My guess is that you have some affinity issues.

I would also make sure your sound settings are disabled (versus just muted) for the slave machines and obviously any voip as well, since they have a thread of their own. If you have a separate audio card, I would make sure your using it as well to off load that.

My guess is that perfmon is going to expose a race for two processors, and the other two process are going to be substantially less used.

My hope is that your ATI setup is up to date, a lot of updates have come down that are quite huge for speed improvments.

[Acidburning]

I would get a copy of Windows7 somehow, its just that much better.

Else I would run perfmon and look and see what your processor utilization is and possibly paging. My guess is that you have some affinity issues.

I would also make sure your sound settings are disabled (versus just muted) for the slave machines and obviously any voip as well, since they have a thread of their own. If you have a separate audio card, I would make sure your using it as well to off load that.

My guess is that perfmon is going to expose a race for two processors, and the other two process are going to be substantially less used.

My hope is that your ATI setup is up to date, a lot of updates have come down that are quite huge for speed improvments.

Thank you for your response and ideas.

- Windows 7 is an option, I could go fight the crowds on black friday to pick it up. I will keep it in mind.

- I am not very familiar with perfmon, I loaded it up and don't know what exactly I am looking for?

- Confirmed all 5 accounts when loaded have sound NOT enabled, and voice NOT enabled. Audio is built onto the motherboard.

- I opened up my computer to confirm the exact video card: VisionTek 3650 PCIE 1GIG D/D/T
went to the visiontek website this morning, downloaded and installed the new ATI Catalyst. After installing, I also went into the device manager of windows, pressed update for the display adapter, it's now at a 10/26/2010 driver update.

After all that, still I have the same issue. Again, I have loaded them all with no addons vs the jamba/isboxer addon, no difference. I don't have anything really loaded except for my mouse, keyboard, etc in my windows task bar.



Thanks,
Acid