Some doubts regarding xp performance info.

Does the windows(xp) graphic interface depends too much on the vga card???im asking because last night i formated my m860tu and install everything from the cd regarding drivers, and the laptop seems faster than with drivers from here and there, still its not as fast as my desktop regarding movement,minimizing-maximazing windows and general windows environment......but i was wondering how much does the speed in xp depends on the vga card....

 

the GUI on XP is not really driven too much by videocard... its memory paging mainly.

I disable all of that crap, since they mean nothing to me.

 

I dont get it, you disabled what more specifically???i was talking about the orignal drivers that come with the cd instalation....seems i got more performance with the original drivers.....

 

I am talking about the XP GUI features (minimize/maximize animations, fade in/out, shadows under mouse/menus, etc...)
- those require memory.

 

i see..... , still i find strange that i got more performance in this regard with the older drivers...might it be the chipset drivers???

 

could be... but as long as you have stable drivers for all devices that shows up in the Device Manager, it should be fine.

 

well i was using the v9.1.1.1004 Alpha chipset drivers.....might have been this???

might try these v9.1.0.1012 WHQL, what does WHQL means btw???

 

Windows Hardware Qualification Laboratory.

It means that it has been certified as running well by microsoft

 

thanks, still i doubt the alpha one's were what was causing this "lag" in the xp GUI.....you also have a m860tu right? can you tell what version are using for the chipset and vga drivers???those are the only ones that come to mind that might affect the GUI xp speed.....