Performance Manager and ATI 1300

Posted: 10-19-2006, 11:10 PM

johncon

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I had previously installed RC1, no problems and Vista gave my overall system
performance, based on the lowest component, my ATI 1300 512 mb, a 4.
ok no problem here. I can live with that.

I tinker with my system later, reformat a hard drive and do a fresh install
of RC2 with the windows driver. Now it rates it a 3.8?!
hmm..
Go to ATI and download the latest Vista driver, the same one I used for the
RC1 install.
ATI 1300 still remains a 3.8.

So why (how?) did my performance take a 10% hit between RC1 and RC2?
Hate to think of what will happen when the gold release comes out... 3.5?!
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Robert Moir

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Re: Performance Manager and ATI 1300

Posted: 10-21-2006, 12:28 AM

johncon wrote:

> I had previously installed RC1, no problems and Vista gave my overall
> system performance, based on the lowest component, my ATI 1300 512
> mb, a 4.
> ok no problem here. I can live with that.
>
> I tinker with my system later, reformat a hard drive and do a fresh
> install of RC2 with the windows driver. Now it rates it a 3.8?!
> hmm..
> Go to ATI and download the latest Vista driver, the same one I used
> for the RC1 install.
> ATI 1300 still remains a 3.8.
>
> So why (how?) did my performance take a 10% hit between RC1 and RC2?
> Hate to think of what will happen when the gold release comes out...
> 3.5?!

There isn't a line in the code that read:
"If Video_CARD = ATI 1300 then set GRAPHICS = 4.0" in RC1 that got changed
to 3.8 in the RC2 code. The system performs a benchmark. The result returned
by the benchmark has obviously changed, which isn't that unexpected when you
consider that things still change during the RC phase.

Andrew

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RE: Performance Manager and ATI 1300

Posted: 10-24-2006, 04:49 AM

I have the same card ATI 1300. With Vista RC1 performance mark was 4.0. I just
installed RC2 (clean install) and performance did not change, still 4.0

"johncon" wrote:

> I had previously installed RC1, no problems and Vista gave my overall system
> performance, based on the lowest component, my ATI 1300 512 mb, a 4.
> ok no problem here. I can live with that.
>
> I tinker with my system later, reformat a hard drive and do a fresh install
> of RC2 with the windows driver. Now it rates it a 3.8?!
> hmm..
> Go to ATI and download the latest Vista driver, the same one I used for the
> RC1 install.
> ATI 1300 still remains a 3.8.
>
> So why (how?) did my performance take a 10% hit between RC1 and RC2?
> Hate to think of what will happen when the gold release comes out... 3.5?!
> --
> To err is human, to forgive Microsoft is devine.

Mario

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RE: Performance Manager and ATI 1300

Posted: 10-30-2006, 03:24 PM

I think Robert is right. My system scored 4.8 one time, then 5 with a newer
version. Probably MS do some adjustment with their benchmark algorithm.

"johncon" wrote:

> I had previously installed RC1, no problems and Vista gave my overall system
> performance, based on the lowest component, my ATI 1300 512 mb, a 4.
> ok no problem here. I can live with that.
>
> I tinker with my system later, reformat a hard drive and do a fresh install
> of RC2 with the windows driver. Now it rates it a 3.8?!
> hmm..
> Go to ATI and download the latest Vista driver, the same one I used for the
> RC1 install.
> ATI 1300 still remains a 3.8.
>
> So why (how?) did my performance take a 10% hit between RC1 and RC2?
> Hate to think of what will happen when the gold release comes out... 3.5?!
> --
> To err is human, to forgive Microsoft is devine.

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Re: Performance Manager and ATI 1300

Posted: 11-02-2006, 09:56 PM

I'm still got 4.0 with My ATI x1400 Card.
I guess you have somthing running when do the test. Try again.

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"johncon" <johncon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A3EA4874-9B1C-46C2-8855-06BEE7D55EFD@microsoft.com...

>I had previously installed RC1, no problems and Vista gave my overall
>system
> performance, based on the lowest component, my ATI 1300 512 mb, a 4.
> ok no problem here. I can live with that.
>
> I tinker with my system later, reformat a hard drive and do a fresh
> install
> of RC2 with the windows driver. Now it rates it a 3.8?!
> hmm..
> Go to ATI and download the latest Vista driver, the same one I used for
> the
> RC1 install.
> ATI 1300 still remains a 3.8.
>
> So why (how?) did my performance take a 10% hit between RC1 and RC2?
> Hate to think of what will happen when the gold release comes out... 3.5?!
> --
> To err is human, to forgive Microsoft is devine.

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