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[fireside]

I've been working on a game in xp.  Computer crashed.  Got a Vista with an nforce 6150 onboard.  Finally got my game off my old hard drive.  It runs very slow.  I have the frame rate thing clicked but it just shows a blank  where it's supposed to be, the other things like timer and scripts are showing.  Is that normal?  I'm a little shocked it would run this slow because it's 800X600 all 2d.  I've played a few games like Keepsake, Niburu,  etc with it and they seem to run all right.  It's weird because the talking seems all right, but the main character walking around seems much slower.

[Mnemonic]

Drivers, drivers, drivers. Make sure you're using the latest ones, because they can make huge difference. Especially in Vista, where the initial drivers were often crap far from perfect.
Generally speaking, there shouldn't be a big performance difference between XP and Vista.

[metamorphium]

I have vista and have very nice performance on my laptop with 1280x1024 filled with 3D models and animations. So it's really not normal.

[fireside]

Drivers, drivers, drivers. Make sure you're using the latest ones, because they can make huge difference.

I downloaded the latest video driver just a little while ago.

[Mnemonic]

Try also updating chipset drivers. But anyway, FPS now showing is NOT normal, there's something wrong.

[fireside]

I think I'm updated as far as I can go.  This happens with other software every so often.  Hopefully it'll get worked out eventually.   It's a 32 bit Windows OS tagged onto a 64 bit processor that doesn't seem to be supported all that well.  Most things work all right.

[fireside]

I found out it runs in a window a lot faster for some reason.  I still don't get the frame rate, but at least it seems to run at normal speed.