graphics: 5.9 >whats the diffrence between graphics and gaming graphics? I have a ATI 4850 1GB why this low?
I guess they're rating SLi & Crossfired cards at the high end for gaming graphics.. my HIS 3870 512 mb also got the 5.9. I'm using the AMD 780 Nb on this Gigabyte Gama780 gm s2h, but didn't realize ATI was going to limit hybridized crossfire from only the lower end cards.. damn.
In other news, I found out that the 4096 mb force setting in start-up wasn't taking into effect the 2 mb that were required for the OS, and reset it to 4094 and it worked fine without restarting at 256mb and lagging out. BUT!!! the lower then max memory setting then showed only 3.75 gigs available for use. So again unforced and all memory is available and working fine.
Ran the safe settings for Black Viper's services and also disabled a few I'll have no use for such as biometrics, smart cards, and tablets. After reading around I disable search as well since it seemed to streamline for the benefits received.
Open Office 3.0.0 installed and updated to latest java runtime however it wouldn't start after attempting to register. Removed and replaced with Microsoft Office Enterprise, and all ran fine. Installed Adobe Creative Suite and besides the warning that I didn't have the required sp's in vista or xp 64 it seems that the applications are running correct... (lot of them haven't tested them all).
As far as games I've got Crysis and Dawn of War 2 running smoothly on first try installs.
This has been the smoothest installation experience I've had and the entire system appears to be more stable and nimble then previous XP or Vista installations, especially considering I'm running the x64 model.
I'll be installing x32 on the 4764 laptop to see if I can translate the legacy usb tv tuner driver into a functional media center input.
YaY!!
So I checked out the registry entry for the l2 cache and it wasn't set so I followed the vista properties at the following link and changed to the 800 hex for my 9600 phenom l2. Seems to have increased just that much more.
How to Set Vista for your CPU L2 Cache memory | Windows Reference
So I reset the l2 cache reg entry back to the default 0 when I attempted to run a performance monitor report.
Came back with the following error during scan
"! Unable to add these counters:
\Memory\Available MBytes
\Memory\% Committed Bytes In Use
\Memory\Cache Faults/sec
\Memory\Cache Faults/sec
\Physical Disk(*)\% Idle Time
\Physical Disk(*)\Avg. Disk Queue Length
\Network Interfact(*)\Bytes Total/Sec"
Now this is the first time I've run this since install and when I reset the registry to default I got it again.
So my question is, is the Performance Monitor function for others in "7" x64 (7077)? or is possible that one of the services I disabled (via Black Viper "safe") maybe preventing the Performance Monitor from running a complete diagnostic?
Generate System Health report is telling me that a service is stopping prematurely and I wonder if perhaps this is due to me turning off windows search...
Thanks,
General Oya