Hi, Does anyone have any idea why all builds of W8 have run really slow on my machines? I don't think it's hardware specific, seeing as I've installed 2 of the builds on 2 different machines. Everything is laggy: moving windows, typing, web browsing, everything. I'm currently on 7989 on a fairly old PC, but it runs W7 perfectly well. Laggy as hell now. If anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them!
I only really use this pc for beta's and other stuff, so it's pretty old. Dual Core Intel Pentium, 2.93GHz 512Mb RAM (Pitiful, I know) Integrated Graphics. Windows 7 works perfect on this PC, but not 8. I tried a few builds on my powerful machine (quadcore i5) and it was still slow, if not slower.
The RAM is very low. Windows 8 requires at least 2 GB RAM. As for your other PC, there might be some other hardware issues.
My other machine deffinately doesn't have any hardware issues, as when in windows7 everything works fine, I can use all RAM etc. I just hope that when the RC comes out, this issue I'm having (whatever it is) gets fixed.
exactly what you get it wrong windows 7 and 8 need 128mb of gram. it would get laggy if you dont have...
Definately get a ram upgrade. That will solve most of your problem. I'm running Win8 with a 64MB AGP GFX card I pulled out of a dell GX240 with aero enabled. Other specs: 1gb ram, 2.6GHZ P4 o/c to 3.4Ghz. fried ps2 ports.. It's an Asus board P45800-MX
I have a Sandy Bridge build with 8 gig ram and an SSD. To me Win 8 7989 is a lot faster than Win 7 sp1. You definitely need more ram.
Apart from JizzyMojo's problem, I've noticed that Win8 runs freakin' fast on my system compared to Win7. I mean my system is fast (phenom II 1090T, 16G DDR3, 4870x2, OCZ Vertex 3), but with win 8 it's lightning fast.