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Leeko · 05-05-2008, 07:11 AM

After a little trial and error, I have found out why Vista is slow on most laptops... It is not your settings and may not even be the RAM. Vista is very graphics intensive and almost all stock laptops come with slow video chips that share memory with the system. Check your video settings. If you have less than 128MB of dedicated video memory, you are pretty much up a creek. If the video chips share 256MB of your 512MB then there is only 256MB left for the System. I had to take back the first Vista laptop I bought -- Dual core CPU and 2GB of RAM -- Even Tetris-like games were choppy, because of the lack of video hardware.

05-05-2008, 07:11 AM	#14 (permalink)
Leeko Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 1 OS: Vista SP1	Re: vista made my laptop slow. After a little trial and error, I have found out why Vista is slow on most laptops... It is not your settings and may not even be the RAM. Vista is very graphics intensive and almost all stock laptops come with slow video chips that share memory with the system. Check your video settings. If you have less than 128MB of dedicated video memory, you are pretty much up a creek. If the video chips share 256MB of your 512MB then there is only 256MB left for the System. I had to take back the first Vista laptop I bought -- Dual core CPU and 2GB of RAM -- Even Tetris-like games were choppy, because of the lack of video hardware.