butterfli Wrote:service pack 2 xp
Since you're in vista laptop, turn your computer's performance up to "high performance" by clicking on the battery if it's not set so already. If you're using it on it's battery alone, plug the cord in. Also since vista's theme is so flashy, try putting it in windows classic theme since it uses less colors.
Beloved Wrote:Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention that I have set it to run in XP SP2 compatibility mode.
On that note, I've also set the laptop power options to high performance. I read somewhere that it keeps certain things from running. Despite the compatibility mode and the power option setting changes, it still gives me a low fps. =\
I think you tl;dr'd my first post and possibly the previous one or I guess I didnt describe the issue properly.
It isn't the machine itself lagging, it's the way vista was programmed that's causing issues. The ping test that comes back with general failures pretty much prove that it's the net going nuts every so often. I just don't know how to turn that off.
Edit: I went to time the pings to confirm that it IS vista's WLAN autoconfig goofing up, and it DOES in fact "lag" every 60 seconds for 5 second intervals.