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slow 2d desktop performance
Ok not sure where to stick this post request so posting here.
On this machine (sods law my main pc) 2d desktop performance for non aero is hideous. Ok so basically aero itself seems fine, I can drag windows around etc. However there is noticeble slowness on things like scrolling web pages and one application I use called mirc is extremely slow at scrolling text (chat program) and when using it is so slow I can see the screen (when it full screen) been physically drawn on my screen. Some other apps I can see it drawing also but less noticeable, windows XP on the same hardware was significantly faster in 2d. Disabling aero makes no difference and in fact when I turn off aero the problem becomes very obvious, dragging windows etc. with aero off leaves massive graphic lag when it should be performing like windows xp did. My research led to people having problems either on linux or some ati users and the ati users issues appeared to be fixed with newer drivers from ati. My problem is (a) I am usng nvidia and (b) there problem was fixed 2 years or so back.
The problem at a guess is my cpu seems to act weaker, using creative audio console is very noticeably laggy as well, on XP I had a slight pause between each setting page on it, but in windows 7 its over a second delay long enough to see the spinning circle. This is odd as various things are more snappy for me such as file copying and anything drive related, playing multimedia is superior. But these desktop issues are very frustrating. My rateing is 5.9 (hdd) cpu gets 6.1, ram 6.1 and graphics 6.8. My laptop which is a far lower spec cpu and ram wise doesnt suffer these problems and in particurly handles mirc a lot better. (even when I made screen res same as laptop).
Am using latest nvidia drivers. Cleartype is disabled.