Recent content by rathan47

Yeah, they ran perfectly fine on Vista. And they all run in Windows 7, but they all have the same, slow, stagger problem and high CPU usage. It's almost like the system isn't processing the executable properly. Oh, and I did send feedback to Microsoft. Hopefully I'm not the only one with this...

Software examples Hi, Commercial software games like Need for Speed, Far Cry 2, Fallout 3 all run fine. It's the independant software that is created from Visual Studio or other such programs. As I mentioned, programs such as Frets on Fire (a Guitar hero clone), Ultrastar (a Singstar clone -...

I am trying to figure out why only compiled software (like from Visual C++, etc) runs really slow on Windows 7. Programs like Frets on Fire, Phun, and such all run really slow, painfully so. And they use up 50% or more of the cpu even when idle. Does anyone have any ideas? I'm desparate to find...

I'm having a problem I can't seem to find a solution to. All of the Visual C++ based software that I try and run such as Frets on Fire, Ultrastar or Phun all stutter and chew up 50% of the processor time evn when they are idle. I've tried it on both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions and they both...