Windows Experience Index doesn't run on a G50Vt-X1

Has anyone noticed that the Windows Experience Index (Start -> Control Panel -> Classic View -> Performance Information and Tools) doesn't run on the G50Vt-X1?

On my computer, it fails silently after checking disk performance. When I check the Event Viewer (Start -> Control Panel -> Classic View -> Administative Tools -> Event Viewer -> Windows Logs -> Application), I see the following two errors:

" A request to disable the Desktop Window Manager was made by process (2756)"

followed immediately by:

" The Desktop Window Manager was unable to start because composition was disabled by a running application"

Anyone else experience this? Could anyone else who has an Asus G50Vt-X1 also try running Windows Experience Index and tell us what happens for you?

 

This would seem to indicate that the problem is with a 3rd party app that you are running. Did you install anything besides what you got stock with the laptop?

You could try getting rid of some of the bloatware and stop the unnecessary autostarting applications (see my Vista optimization guide, for instance). Then retry running the WEI.

 

Since getting the computer yesterday afternoon, I only did the following:

• Standard Windows Vista personalization
• Installed a 2nd internal 320GB harddrive
• Uninstalled Norton Internet Security
• Installed Microsoft Live OneCare
• Installed all the Vista x64 patches and updates from Microsoft
• Installed Acrobat Reader 9, Shockwave 11, Flash 10, and Adobe Air
• Installed both Java 6 SE and Java 6 SE x64 from sun.com
• Installed nVidia ForceWare v180.43 for Vista x64
• Installed nVidia PhysX v8.10.13

Could one of those things done it? They are all pretty basic.

I'm going to temporarily disable all the 3rd party apps and try again.

I'll try your optimization guide after trying to disable 3rd party apps.

 

I had it not run after some updates to the video drivers once. I think a reboot fixed it though.

 

ViciousXUSMC, rebooting it (multiple times) doesn't fix it for me. Are you running the latest NVIDIA driver (180.43) ?

EBE,

I disabled all the startup programs in Windows Defender for all users except for "Microsoft Userinit Login Application" and "Microsoft Windows Explorer" which could not be disabled. I even disabled Windows Defender itself.

After a reboot, I went to the taskbar and killed "Direct Console", "Wireless Console2" and "ASUS Live Update" so only Microsoft Live OneCare was left running (can't kill it).

Ran WEI again. It fails at the same point with the same messages as above.

If it's a 3rd party app that's doing this, it's a very sneaky app.

 

Oh failed to run completely? Never had that happen I just had it fail to update after running. It would stay at 1.0 for graphics.

 

Would you happen to know what version of the Video driver you are running? If you are running an older video driver, I think I will downgrade myself too and see if it is a video driver problem. I'm running version 180.43.

 

I do not have further insight, but I'd ask: Does it matter to have a WEI score? It's a synthetic score, possibly having more to do with marketing intentions of the hardware manufactures, than with reliably assessing the performance of a machine.

So, if the machine runs well otherwise, I'd suggest nevermind the WEI.

If you really want to have it, I could recommend a clean Vista install, run WEI, then start doing the updates / installing applications and run WEI after each important step. Like this you may be able to isolate the cuplrit.

You may also wish to revert to the stock GPU drivers, but that's a longshot.

 

Well the only reason I see it to be a problem is that to enable aero and stuff you need a minimum wei score.

But other than that yeah its totally pointless, and you can probably just follow one of the guides on the net to manualy edit your wei score to get around that.