I switched from removewat to Daz loader 1.9.6 yesterday. I upgraded my windows 7 ultimate (Toshiba Satellite C655-S5061) to windows 7 ultimate sp1 today. I used Daz loader again after sp1 installation to prevent activation problems. Windows compatibility report presented me to upgrade Toshiba Firmware Linkage Driver before installing SP1 which I ignored. I went to manufacturer's site to upgrade firmware driver to new version after the SP1 upgrade but I could not find any such driver on the site. My Windows experience index before upgrade was 4.6; now it is 4.5 (I ran the test multiple times). What could be the possible reason for the decrease? Will this effect my system performance in any way? Thanks.
WEI's score means absolutely *NOTHING* in terms of the actual performance of your PC, it shows how your PC matches to the currently available high-end hardware. In other words, it will get smaller and smaller with time, depending on new hardware being released, not your PC getting slower.
@Heidegger My score: Processor: 6.7 RAM: 5.9 Graphics: 4.5 Gaming Graphics: 5.1 Primary HDD data transfer rate: 5.7 If by SSD you mean secondary storage device, I didn't have one when I ran the test. Thanks. @Shoonay Thanks for the info.
Do this, go to Performance directory under C:\WINDOWS, subdir WinSat\DataStore and delete everything inside it. Open an elevated command prompt and type this : "winsat formal -restart" (withous quotes) at the end go on system properties and check again experience index number.
update your graphics driver from the default one provided in windows , it will boost your graphics score
Um, 0.1 is within the range of random discrepancies. For example, if, during the test, you move the mouse extra times, thus causing more graphics activity, that could affect the score. If it dropped by 0.5, then you should worry. Changes of 0.1 mean nothing. Incorrect. Do your research before stating nonsense. The score is stable and will never degrade over time (unless your hardware physically degrades; e.g., increased internal seek or read error rates slowing down your HDD as it ages). As new high-end hardware is released, the maximum possible score increases.