OK I'm kinda tired of lagging through everything

[Koga]

Silly question

Windower? it's been know to have bugs/issues running on vista.

I know for fact that windower causes issues due to the fact that I can run 1024x768 window mode with 2048x1536background fine w/o windower. I activate windower and I get 2~4FPS lol

[Izzy]

Just got my laptop.

Getting the same lag issues as OP. Installed laptopvideo2go drivers, same problem.

Here's to dx9 support at WotG release!

[levish]

If you use windower try without it although the 8400 mobile card isn't particularly beefy

[Izzy]

If you use windower try without it although the 8400 mobile card isn't particularly beefy

I believe it DOES NOT lag using regular POL with no windower. That kinda defeats the purpose of having a laptop, since I'm going to have to be sitting next to my desktop to look up info anyways if I can't alt tab ahha.

[levish]

vista + windower = lag

set it up to dual boot windows xp and vista and use xp with windower and do other stuff in vista

[Izzy]

Has anyone even tried running POL in compatibility mode for XP?

[Izzy]

Tried XP compatibility mode: No fix.

Tried NOT using windower: No fix.

Cried in a corner for 45 mins: No fix.

[levish]

Totally thought crying in a corner for 45min would have fixed it.

Try some logging of Average Disk Queue(under harddrive), Pages/sec(under memory), % processor time(under processor) on each one separately. I'm not sure where perfmon is on vista, I can check when I get home.

p.s. I'd still dual boot to XP, and I saw that your laptop has the 8600 card in the other thread which is pretty decent.

[Izzy]

Totally thought crying in a corner for 45min would have fixed it.

Try some logging of Average Disk Queue(under harddrive), Pages/sec(under memory), % processor time(under processor) on each one separately. I'm not sure where perfmon is on vista, I can check when I get home.

p.s. I'd still dual boot to XP, and I saw that your laptop has the 8600 card in the other thread which is pretty decent.

Yea, I have a friend that has the 8600 card with XP and apparently it works perfect.

[levish]

Then dual Boot! it's easy and you may end up using it for other games too

[Demosthenes11]

how do you set up to dual boot? Just put in xp disc and install?

[levish]

the way I'd do it is starting with a clean install, creat a separate partition for windows xp by iteself and install that then when you are done install vista on the other one.

You can still access files across the partitions but doing it this way keeps everything nice and tidy as far as installing other programs.

[Demosthenes11]

After much trouble, i discovered how to make a new partition on my HD in Vista (they make it a bitch to do on purpose I'm sure).
So now I have a 38 gig partition waiting for xp, cross your fingers for me for when I go to install tonight.

[levish]

you can do it!

btw download drivers while in vista and stick em somewhere you can find easily once you get winxp up and running

[Izzy]

After much trouble, i discovered how to make a new partition on my HD in Vista (they make it a bitch to do on purpose I'm sure).
So now I have a 38 gig partition waiting for xp, cross your fingers for me for when I go to install tonight.

Oh, so you know, when you install XP, you're not gonna be able to reboot to vista until you reinstall vista's boot loader. I did exactly what you're doing now...last night. It took me 4 hours, and a fucking IT professional remote controlling my laptop to jerk with my boot loader to finally get it to work.

[Koga]

Dont have Vista so I might be doing myself in but why not just use Grub?
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/

[Demosthenes11]

After much trouble, i discovered how to make a new partition on my HD in Vista (they make it a bitch to do on purpose I'm sure).
So now I have a 38 gig partition waiting for xp, cross your fingers for me for when I go to install tonight.

Oh, so you know, when you install XP, you're not gonna be able to reboot to vista until you reinstall vista's boot loader. I did exactly what you're doing now...last night. It took me 4 hours, and a fucking IT professional remote controlling my laptop to jerk with my boot loader to finally get it to work.

Is there an easier way to do that? Any possible rundown you can give me of what happened?
and idk what that gnu grub is at all...

[Koga]

Boot Loader.

Allows you to choose which OS/Partition you want to boot to.
Used it when I had Linux on a seperate Partition from XP.

[Demosthenes11]

this is cool, it won't let me install xp. When I tell it to boot from CD, it says there is no HD installed...
driver issue with partition...?
-.-

[Izzy]

this is cool, it won't let me install xp. When I tell it to boot from CD, it says there is no HD installed...
driver issue with partition...?
-.-

You have to get the SATA drivers for your HD and slipstream them into your XP CD. Windows XP does not support SATA/RAID HD's during installation unless you install the drivers yourself during the installation (that thing that says push f6 to install a third party SATA/RAID driver) Uhhh, when I can get to my computer I'll give you a rundown of the programs and stuff unless someone beats me to it.