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Old Nov 3, 2007, 06:18 PM   #11 (permalink)
MapleGrace
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I reinstalled XP on a bigger hard drive. I then installed the ATI Catalyst 6.11 drivers modded by the mobility modder. Yay, good performance in XP, no tearing.

So then I popped my hard drive with Vista back in, and installed the same modded XP drivers (no UAC, XP SP2 compatibility) and it can't even draw the GUI screen without taking a second or two. Menus and windows draw top to bottom over a second or two. Video plays in single digit FPS.

Yes, I understand the XP display drivers (XDDM) are running in a "compability mode" under Vista. But should they really be so bad, in terms of performance? It's the same driver code.
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