Posted by Pat Horridge on 11/08/07 11:20

"Ben456" <bendespain@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1194417095.295261.81660@19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com...
> So, I think what I'm learning from this post is that the Vista eye
> candy and the hard drive speed of my computer may be the most likely
> causes of my poor HD handling. I thought Vista's eye candy was based
> on how well your computer 'scores' and thus wouldn't hinder me since
> I'm not the one deciding it's prevalence. But, nonetheless, I think
> I'll try setting all the Vista settings to the most basic and seeing
> if HD performance goes up. I'm sure I could improve my computer's HD
> handling by upgrading all sorts of things on my computer, but I guess
> I was hoping to find out the glaring deficiency in my system setup
> that keeps mine from handling HD when other, seemingly lesser systems
> handle it better...
>
> I'll post as to whether the Vista eye candy downgrading helped at all
> as soon as I can...
>
> -Ben
>
>
I tried the Nvideo hotfixes but still Avid won't work under Vista.
Avid uses the video overlay for playbck and I think that's handled
differently in Vista so no amout of tweaking is likely to resolve it.
It needs Avid to rewrite their display interface.
Reducing the vists eye candy will definatley help performance but you may
still be thwarted by the differences in Vista over XP.

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