retired_lianna

get it on a treadmill and increase the speed and watch it sprint.

wow i'm funny...

less leagues, no other programs open. tis all i can think of

retired_amanda_aloha_2010

Yes XP would be much better, I run 75 leagues from 35 countries on an IBM T41 laptop with 2gb RAM. Don't understand why anyone would want to run with a low number of leagues.

retired_amanda_aloha_2010

Vista is a heap of junk ....

Fitz

Mr Noble has identified your main problem.

Other than that - turn off virus checkers, give FM2008 "high priority" in your applications section, don't run anything else that takes up a lot of memory. </BLOCKQUOTE>

Can't. Says "Acces Denied".

I'm running Vista, would it run faster with XP?

Also, it's not using CPU to its potential...only around 40%-55% is being used and around 50% when it comes to memory. </BLOCKQUOTE>

This seems a little strange as I understood that Vista used all the memory available to it, even if your not running very much.

This doesn't mean that it will overload, but just that it uses it to near capacity by using the available memory and spreading it to the applications currently operating.

It should therefore IIRC run at about 80-85% memory usage most of the time, and I am running a game on Vista currently with 37 league running, more than half of those on full detail, and my game is running pretty quickly.

Have you ensured that your Vista service packs are up to date and that you aren't using any virus checkers whilst FM08 is running.

Finally what setting have you got your 'Processing Fixtures' set at, as I understand it can make quite a difference. (This can be found in Options-Preferences-General).

retired_haynesleighe

Vista is fine- needs a hefty system but theres nothing much wrong with it as a gaming platform, and the 64bit version is the securest version of windows yet. </BLOCKQUOTE>

Just wait until you are without an internet action for an unspecified amount of time (in my case, less than three weeks) and Vista accuses you of being a software pirate, gives you only a web browser, a link to buy it again or the microsoft activation number and doesn't allow you access to the OS.

After calling said number and getting an exercise in button-pressing to select the correct option via the ridiculous phone-menu system and after putting in a exceedingly long activation number you have a message that comes up and says something akin to "Thank you for putting in your details, we are checking your copy of Windows XP now". In a minor moment of panic, you put the phone down because you thought you had chosen an incorrect option along the way.

Then you re-dial the same number, make sure you do everything correctly and the same message happens. The automated activation system then decides to transfer you to a microsoft representative. After 25 minutes of talking to someone who doesn't understand you and you struggled to understand them (getting told on several occasions that you must have updated Windows or your system drivers for this to occur and that you must indeed a software pirate be) then the dimwit choses to check the details and inform you that you were correct and that your copy of Windows is genuine and then offer you a code to rival that of the length of PI in it's non-shortened form for you to type in to be able to use your perefectly paid-for PC again. Then after suggesting that you are concerned that this may be a regular occurence as you are going to be off the internet sometimes for around a month at a time they not only do not say it won't happen again but suggest it probably will and that "it only takes a few moments of your precious time (around 35 minutes in the end) to complete the process" each time that it does.

This is exactly how it went for me.

After this debacle, I put forward a very big complaint to Microsoft suggesting that their activation system was flawed in far too many ways (in its' current state) to be a viable future protection method and their staff in need of training in diplomacy (if nothing else). I was told that my complaint was very important and they would call me back within the next few days to discuss it. That was the beginning of December. Funnily enough I am still waiting.

During my conversations with them, I suggested that the reason my system was in that state was due to it not being able to access the internet for a three-week period. I was repeatedly told that I must have run an update of some description (which was impossible due to the lack of internet access) but they never denied my internet reasoning. This has also happened to several elderly people I know, within several weeks of buying new Vista-based PC's that they had no intention of going on the web with (and never did).

I'm all for software protection but not when it impacts in any way upon the legitimate consumer.

Twice, I have had to repair the OS in safe mode after Vista updated the drivers and made a complete ****-up of it. Since then, automatic driver updates are off and will remain that way.

Let's add to that the numerous times Vista has chosen to stop copying files half-way through the process for no reason and didn't bother to inform me that it was too lazy to finish the task and that's only the problems that come to mind immediately.

I think Dell demonstrated their concern best when they said they would not use it in any of their own company machines as, until SP1 was released, it was too unstable to be used. Dell have since started offering their customers XP again after a major amount of complaints.

Whilst I agree that Vista is a pretty operating system, has majorly improved security features and will definitely become a great OS, at the moment it is a disaster waiting for someone to happen to.