Thanks for the help. I disabled the Creative card after seeing in DXDiag that
there were issues with a file. Then enabled my onboard Sound and I am up and
running bf around 50 fps at 1280x960. A little less of a res than it ran at
before but I haven't tweaked it all out yet. IS onboard audio - Sound storm
considered hardware audio?

Oh well thanks for the help. I didn't want go back to XP. And I new it was a
driver issue somewhere. Hopefully creative gets on the ball soon so I can get
my EAX back.

"Dale M. White" wrote:

> Well, it's a tough quesiton. I don't know that you're limited to 20-40 fps
> without question. But it's possible you might be, if Vista doesn't have
> motherboard drivers (aka chipset drivers). I've seen alot of people have
> poor gaming performance after doing a fresh install of XP, because they
> didn't load the motherboard drivers and so the OS and hardware didn't talk.
> If you run dxdiag, you should see AGP Enabled set to Yes. If it is no, then
> there is a disconnect between the OS and hardware and you'll never get the
> full speed of the video card.
>
> But even if it does say yes, it doesn't mean it's actually working
> correctly. Without vista supported mobo drivers, you may have issues. Did
> you try downloading a benchmark program called 3Dmark06 ? It will remove the
> sound card out of the performance metrics and give you an ideal of how
> you're running compared to other systems. You should be able to do into
> Device Manager and disable you Creative stuf and that should remove any
> bottlenecks it's creating.
>
> CPU speed and Memory part of the requirement for Vista, having supported
> hardware is the other little thing. It's not that your NF2 board won't work,
> or that it can't work correctly. It might just take some extra effort to get
> it to work, since it's unsupported.
>
> Just for the heck of it, you might try installing the Nforce drivers for
> either XP or the Vista drivers for the Nforce3 or 4
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce4...a32_15.00.html. Of course,
> doing such could crash your vista install and kill every one standing near
> the machine
>
> At the end of it all, going back to XP might be your only working option, at
> least until someone writes some home made NF2 vista drivers. Keep an eye on
> www.guru3d.com
>
>
> "Phil" <Phil@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:F931DB9C-E2E0-4F7A-B373-09F165748B9E@microsoft.com...
> >I was able to run BF2 over 80FPS at 1280x1024 - The native res of my LCD.
> >And
> > your telling me that I should expect 20-40 FPS at 800x600 with everything
> > turned off.
> >
> > I see threads where people are running WOW on ATI 9700s. Why would MS sell
> > an upgrade version if noone can upgrade. The minimum specs are 1.0 ghz and
> > 512 ram I believe I amd running over 2.0Ghz AMD 3000XP and 2 gig of ram.
> >
> > My expectations were a working product. It runs fine on my even older
> > toshiba laptop with 512 ram and a geforce go video card with only 32 meg
> > of
> > memory.
> >
> > There is obviously a driver issue somewhere. I was hoping for answers.
> > Back
> > to XP.
> >
> >
> > "RR Johnson Jr." wrote:
> >
> >> Just out of curiousity what were your expectations with an Nforce 2
> >> chipset
> >> and an ATI800XL in MS Vista? Please look at this website from NVIDIA
> >> which
> >> shows that this chipset is not on NVIDIA's compatibility list (unless you
> >> typed an incorrect number for the chipset):
> >>
> >> http://www.nvidia.com/page/technology_vista_home.html
> >>
> >> While it is true that Microsoft might write some drivers for older
> >> chipsets
> >> I can not recommend anyone upgrading to Vista without at least checking
> >> out
> >> the website link above if you have NVIDIA products. I believe 20-40 FPS
> >> is
> >> what you would expect to get from your setup.
> >>
> >> regards
> >> Robert
> >>
> >>
> >> "Phillip" <paputzback@insightbb.com> wrote in message
> >> news:1170954381.531531.19490@m58g2000cwm.googlegro ups.com...
> >> > Regardless of my video settings I am getting 20 - 40 FPS. I have a
> >> > Creative Audigy 2 ZS and ATIX800XL on a NFORCE 2 board in a shuttle
> >> > box.
> >> >
> >> > I'll try disabling the Creative card tonight to see if that helps
> >> > And I saw in another thread where someone installed the August
> >> > released 9.0c Direct X. I would of thought that Vista would have had
> >> > the latest DX.
> >> >
> >> > Are there any MS employees monitoring their newsgroup?
> >> >
> >> > Any other ideas to fix the problem. I have a feeling Creative is
> >> > causing some issues because people in ventrillo sound like they have
> >> > robot voices.
> >> >
> >>
> >>
>
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