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

[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?

[Vmpwraith]

Not Sure about if this effects slots eg using 2 AGP or PCIe slots or if the card has 2 GPUs.

Consider the following scenario:

• You have a Windows Vista-based computer.
• The computer uses two or more DirectX-compatible graphics processing units (GPUs) in a linked configuration.
• You are using a DirectX 10 application and driver.

In this scenario, the computer's graphics performance indicates that only a single GPU is being used.
CAUSE
This problem occurs because the operating system does not forward driver-render requests to the secondary GPU.

Take a look for yourself at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936710 just choose the 32bit or 64bit fix to download. If you are running SP1 on vista I'm not sure if it was already included but you can try it and see. I dont think it has anything to do with which cards you use as it's a VIsta Bug for all people running multigraphics cards.

[Bigzini]

Thanks a lot man!

[Hiram]

needed those changes ty super info

[Gurblash]

Freaking AMAZING!! +1 Karma for you sir... I demand a sticky

[pinotnoir]

The second fix said it does not apply to my system. I was surprised to see my new pc was set to balanced under the power options. Thanks for the heads up.

[majty]

So is this fix safe to use without any risk. I mean there is no risk that system overheat and such?

It will only consume more power?