LOSS of proformance on 7

So I've bean using Win7 for a few months now. I decided to run FRAPS to see what kind of frame rate I was ACTUALLY getting. I was disappointed with the results (could have swear they use to be higher), so I ran those same benches on the old Vista install. They where about twice what I was getting on Win7. I have all the right drivers, and I have AVG anti virus.

I haven't bean keeping the Vista install up to date, but it seems to be doing better. I don't understand. I've tried updating drivers and everything else that updates... Can't figure this out. If it is useful, I could post the DxDiag.txt specs.

I don't think the fact that it is the 3rd partition on my 1TB hdd should matter, does it?

Core 2 Duo 8400
Nvidia9400 Chipset Gigabyte Motherboard
EVGA 9800 GTX+
6gb of ram (1 gb dedicated to the 9400 on board graphics card)

1TB hdd, Win7 install starts on a partition that starts in the last 1/4 of the HDD. Vista is in the first thing on the HDD.

Thx

What drivers are you using? what games were you benchmarking? What fps were you getting?

Benches in Win7 should be roughly equivalent to those of Vista. After all, Win7 is just Vista refined.

But digital is right, you left out some pretty valuable info.

Idk why, but in my experience I get better gaming performance in Win7 than I did in Vista. Nothing too spectacular, but I can usually bump up the graphics a setting or two on 7

about 30 fps or less on L4D win7 vs 50-60 on Vista

15-25 on Crysis Wars on Win7 vs 30-40 on Vista

a few others, but I haven't recorded anything.

Could the fact that I have 2 different graphics cards be part of it? If I disable the onboard graphics card on the motherboard, could that improve performance (My screen is plugged into the 9800)

I tried Win7 because I heard there was better performance on Win7, but I'm not seeing it.

I'm using the lastest nvidia drivers available. I even uninstalled the drivers and reinstalled them. Still no proformance boost.

Green Fox said:

I'm using the lastest nvidia drivers available. I even uninstalled the drivers and reinstalled them. Still no proformance boost.

Which build of win7 are you using?

I can't even play games in Win7. I think it's a DirectX thing.

ikilledkenny said:

I can't even play games in Win7. I think it's a DirectX thing.

At first I couldn't either, the game would come up then stop responding. I solved that by downloading the latest directX from the website(google directx download, that should take you to it) then I updated my graphics drivers, and all was good. maybe you could see if it would work for you

I installed DirectX 9.0c, but the drivers that come with Windows 7 are better/newer than intel's drivers. Like, they are intel's drivers, but intel doesn't have the version I have on their website.

Yet another reason to dislike intel...