Whats wrong with the vista rating system

Not that this is really important, but my vista rating is at 1.0, despite my killer system (my system spec is on my sig)

I got:
Processor: 5.9
RAM: 5.7
Graphics: 1.0
Gaming Graphics: 1.0
Harddisk: 5.4

Come on!!! I mean, 8800GTX rated as 1.0?!?! with the latest drivers?!!

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instal/reinstall your video drivers and run the assessment again

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Reply to Scotteq

already done.

could it be cos i havnt yet activated?

oh and scotteq your sig is funny LOL

I had the same thing. Make sure you motherboards chipset drivers are installed and graphics drivers are installed.

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Reply to MrsBytch

probably because your gtx is not good enough...just kidding!

i wouldn't even pay attention to the vista rating thing, it doesn't really know what it's talking about in many regards. As long as actual in game performance isn't being compromised, then i wouldn't worry about it.

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Reply to rayzor

rayzor wrote :

probably because your gtx is not good enough...just kidding!

i wouldn't even pay attention to the vista rating thing, it doesn't really know what it's talking about in many regards. As long as actual in game performance isn't being compromised, then i wouldn't worry about it.

Well, for the graphics assessments.... yeah, it doesn't know what it is talking about a lot of times. My Radeon X300 graphics cards was rated as a 2.0 for the business assessment and a 3.0 for the gaming assessment..... which is pretty darn freaked up, because the X300 should do business stuff and Aero better than gaming stuff!

Reply to Christopher1

vista is wack. even with chipset driver update it doesnt change

What WEI is and what it measures: http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/ [...] 58117.aspx

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Reply to Scotteq

vista isn't whack you just need to figure out how to do it

Reply to Aurora18

Their could be something wrong with the XML file for your rating system.

Go to C:\windows\performance\winsat\datascore and delete the xml files that in it.
Launch the vista performance utility and you should see dashes where the scores once was.
Now run the test and your new score should appear.

There is a dos version which give you more details as to what WinSAT does

Forgot...
Also delete the Winsat.txt file in C:\windows\performance\winsat

Message edited by lp231 on 01-30-2008 at 06:19:45 PM

Reply to lp231

I had the same problem with my 8400GeForce until i disabled my previous graphic drivers and then installed the nvidia chipset.

Message edited by Aurora18 on 02-14-2008 at 02:31:39 PM

Reply to Aurora18

Same thing happened for me (1.0 score for graphics) when I first built my computer. I kept hitting the "refresh score" link (forgot the actual name) and it would appear to do something and then sorta go into limbo. I updated my video card drivers and still nothing immediate happend. After some fiddling with it, I refreshed everything and rebooted and I finally had a 5.9 in graphics. So I don't know exactly how the score got refreshed, but I'm confident that you can do it if you keep trying.

After everything was said and done, I scored a 5.9 in everything except my processor which was a 5.7.

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Reply to sleepyhead

Yeah, reinstall your graphics drivers. On my new build, it kept saying the same thing until I installed the drivers for my 8800GTS

Reply to nforce256

Had this with my 1950 pro, solved it by removing drivers and 1950 pro, rebooting,shutdown and re-installing card and drivers, then worked perfectly, ps 5.9 gaming and aero for agp 1950pro, 4.3 system for processor p4 3.0ghz

I get 5.9 on everything..except the memory. which doesnt make sense to me because I have 8GB pc8000 ram. It gives me 5.6 on the memory. the same score it did with 4GB .
Is there a reason for this or just one of those meaningless things

Reply to mweidler

The rating system measures throughput for each subsection, not necessarily "speed". I am running my RAM at 'only' 800Mhz, but get a 5.9. Why?? Because I have the FSB cranked up to 400 (1600), so the bandwidth of that whole subsection is greatly increased.

There is a link above explaining WEI in much more detail.

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Reply to Scotteq

I guess when i overclock my cpu I will get that elusive 5.9 then lol
Its just a benchmark anyway

Reply to mweidler

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