The best way to play?

What do you think?

 

Playing with 2 monitors is great for online gaming. You can manage teamspeak or IM on the 2nd monitor and dont have to switch.

 

I was kind of refering to playing in flip 3d...

 

What's the point?

If all you're going for is show off, then spinning the Beryl/Compiz cube with HL2 playing is better.

 

Actually I was testing Windows.

It doesn't seem to run any less then normal.

That is games though... Trying to usurf the web while playing a game=nightmare.

 

Yeah, unfortunately, I can't multitask at all with only 1GB ram. BF2 takes a matter of minutes just to close.

 

It seems as if, when making Vista, all they thought of was people with 8800, core 2 duos, and 2 gigs of ram or more.

Seriously, Vista is for excellent machines. The thing is, when multitasking with those machines, it hardly effects them at all.

In the next year or two when people upgrade their pcs they'll find vista is alot better than xp. As for now though, they probably should use Xp, or linux.

And btw, while doing all of this, I had checked my fps, only off by about 3-5. Can't really beat that.

 

Look at the most interesting part:



Now then, look at the cpu usage and memory usage when I use flip 3d and a million programs:



May look like it stays the same, but that is a lie. The cpu usage was jumping around badly when I had the game alt-tabbed.

I put it in flip 3d and add more programs, and cpu usage goes down, and memory usage goes up by 1%.

It seems as if Vista at that point switches to your GPU.

This is from a laptop with only 1 gig of ram though...

This powerful pc that you need for vista is simply 2 gigs of ram. Nothing more nothing less.

That's of course for non 3d work. 3d work requires a good video card, as usual.

What program would monitor gpu usage? I want to get to the bottom of this.

I want to see if offloading to the gpu is really a good thing, and compare it to my other video cards.

I currently have:

(from least to best)

6200le
9600 Pro
7600 gt
x1800 mobile
x1900xt 512
8800gts 640

I want to see what the effects are for offloading onto the gpu.

So, anyone know a program?

 

I just noticed that when I added more processes, it TOOK SOME AWAY.

That was not something I did.

I added 6 processes, yet 2 were gone from the last time.

All I can ask is wth?

WTF is up with Vista's ram system?

All I can say is that the more processes you add, the more windows processes get superfetched or something, improving performance in all your programs.

I'm gonna try disabling superfetch and see what happens. See if the files act the same way.

 

I see, you don't want to find out what Vista is like, you'd rather just complain about made up things.

We really should figure this out. This is a beast I've wanted to figure out for awhile.

I am noticing it though. Go into flip 3d and cpu usage goes down.

When it goes into 3d mode it uses gpu instead of cpu.

But how does this effect your machine?