I would highly suggest moving to windows 7, I know it may seem some what drastic but you will never regret it, windows 7 is vista's superiour in every way, shape and form. Comparing the operating speed of vista to 7 is like comparing a Aston Martin DB9 to a Street cleaner. Upgrading your RAM to 4GB probably won't be a bad investment either, also if you are familiar with laptop hardware and dissasembley and also know a bit about BIOS cpu tables you could have a crack at upgrading your CPU to a beefer model (2.0Ghz Dual core perhaps). Also you could try the latest game booster build, it isn't the solution to all performance issues but it will help, do a search on the group and you will find many posts about it and its varying degree's of usefullness.
THEfog On 12/01/2011 7:36 PM, "Robert Whitis" <[email protected]> wrote: Hello, I am trying to play Vindictus. I have an Acer 5570Z laptop, 1.7 GHz dual core, 2GB DDR2, onboard Intel GMA 945 chipset, running Intel Media Accelerator 950 (it says 256MB in the information pane of the graphics options). My OS is Windows Vista Ultimate 32 bit. The game will come on, and I can play, but it is *very* laggy. It's a struggle currently, at best. I have all of the in game options turned down to the lowest setting possible. My settings in the Intel graphics 3D Settings panel are Asynchronous Flip Off, Triple Buffering Off, 24 bit depth buffer, 32 bit per Texel color depth, Anti. Filtering Off, both Force Textures Off, Flipping Policy set to Flip. In looking for help, I found this group and your related information. Here's what I did. I created a partition (P) for Page File, set at 6 GB in size, and set it as my page file. I installed .net framework v4.0. I uninstalled my display driver, selecting to delete the driver files. I restarted my computer, and installed the following: I installed the GMA Booster, addgame.reg, IGRM, 3D Analyze, and modded driver Alpha Series (Windows 7 & Vista 32bit 950GMA & 3100). I then rebooted again, and opened Vindictus. Vindictus works with the 'familiar to some' Hackshield software, meaning that you login to your account on their website, and press a button to launch the game which opens the executable from your hard drive. This creates an interesting problem, I believe, with 3D Analyze. I used it anyway, and can change things within 3D Analyze and launch the game, but I cannot login and play using 3D Analyze, because their game detects 3rd party software launching the game, and basically tells me to stop trying to hack it, lol. I ran the addgame.reg with ~Vindictus.exe, opened GMA Booster, Added Vindictus using IGRM, and verified the registry entries were added. I have seen absolutely no change in the performance/framerate. Vindictus has a FPS meter in it's option pane, such that you can see the affect your choices has had on the framerate. I opened Vindictus with the setting in the registry set to 0, 1, and 2. The framerate was exactly the same all 3 times, as it was previous to me doing any of this. I also tried toying with 3D Analyze and just not logging in, but I'm not exactly sure how to use the program efficiently, so I simply followed the tutorials I found on it, and it didn't make much of a difference, although I could see it would possible to improve things with this program, in some way, I'm just not capable of doing it with my own knowledge except trial and error on all of those checkboxes. Also, as I said, I can't login when I use it, so unless I find a way to workaround that problem, it won't do me any good anyway. Especially if my account gets banned for hacking, HAH!! Previously, I had the most up to date drivers directly from Intel's website. About a week ago I formatted this machine and did a fresh install of Vista Ultimate, and there is nothing on the computer except Vindictus, Vista, and Firefox, and now the software I mentioned above. I believe I'm not doing something right, or maybe I'm just out of luck. If anyone cares to help it would be *much* appreciated as I've searched high and low in recent months for a new game and after about 20 trial and hates, I love Vindictus. -- 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS -- 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS
