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jamesgoddard   10-09-2006 at 10:41:39 AM

Just a quick one, if you are using Windows Vista and want to get 3D game performance a little closer to XP, then disable the Aero interface... The Aero interface, even if you can not see a single pixel of the desktop, takes a considerable amount of GPU performance to render the desktop... The Aero interface is the single biggest decelerator in the new OS…

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13thmonkey   10-09-2006 at 11:22:19 AM
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well I suppose it makes a change having 1 big decelerator rather than hundreds of little ones.

Thanks for the tip though.

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mkaibear   10-09-2006 at 11:24:11 AM
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Oh, no, there are still hundreds of little ones.

It's just that Aero is the biggest ;)

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prozac26   10-09-2006 at 02:55:22 PM
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Aero also takes up RAM, so killing Aero frees up RAM so games can use more. That's why I would recommend 4gb of RAM for Vista with Aero.

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Anonymous   10-09-2006 at 06:53:06 PM
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Quick question, I only ran Vista in a VM machine so gamin was out of question.

Usually when I game under XP, I kill most of the process including explorer.exe.

Under vista, if I kill explorer.exe, will it also remove the aero process?

Just being curious as I dont have any desktop until christmas because I'm out of town until then, no way I'll be playing with RC2 on my laptop...

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