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Macbook Pro Vista Score Issue

skitzogreg

skitzogreg

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I have a new 2.4 MBP with Vista SP1, and my Macbook Pro only shows a score of 1.0. Every time I try to "refesh score", it says there are weird errors. Does anyone else have this issue? :confused:
 
skitzogreg said:
I have a new 2.4 MBP with Vista SP1, and my Macbook Pro only shows a score of 1.0. Every time I try to "refesh score", it says there are weird errors. Does anyone else have this issue? :confused:
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Can't help you out without you telling us what these "errors" are. Those are probably key to solving this "issue.";)
 
Well it seems to be due to the graphic drivers. Are you finding performance choppy and laggy? If so that is an indicator of the lack of, or improperly, installed drivers.

Once the system can see the graphic card properly your score will sky rocket.
 
amoda said:
Well it seems to be due to the graphic drivers. Are you finding performance choppy and laggy? If so that is an indicator of the lack of, or improperly, installed drivers.

Once the system can see the graphic card properly your score will sky rocket.
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I've tried everything. I even downloaded new drivers and it still won't show any changes. Also, it always has a red exclamation mark that says "New hardward installed", when I didn't install any new hardware.
 
I'm also interested in watch Vista gives a MBP.
BTW, it would be nice if you could leave us with more detailed specs. :) Thanks!

Edit: I actually see it in your signature.. but what's your which RPM do you have for hard drive.
 
It's not the apple hardware that is giving you a score of 1.0, it's Vista. Vista is a 1.0 on a scale of 1.0 to 100.0.

My Penryn 2.5GHz with 4GB ram gets a 5.1 score overall.
 
Dragonforce said:
Stock 2.4 GHz Penryn gets a 5.0
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That's exactly right. For whoever asked how I fixed it, it was a strange fix. What I did was I went into a Windows subfolder and deleted all of the stored "information" it had on my system specs. After I did that, it said my computer was "unrated" and that I should initially set my score. I refreshed the experience index value and voila, it was fixed.

Also, I slipstreamed my Vista Business copy with SP1 using vLite. From a mid-high end user, it seems a little bit quicker than Vista w/ no Service Pack, but I'm still tired of being asked a million times if I want to do something.
 
alphaod said:
That should be first thing to rid of when you first boot into Vista.
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That, and then go back to OS X, get MacFUSE so you can read/write NTFS, and systematically delete all of the Microsoft crapplications in Vista from OS X. by dragging their folders to the Trash.

When you go back to Vista, they won't be mysteriously reinstalled (like they would if you did it from within Windows), and they give you more space.

Things like IE7, Movie Maker, Calendar, Gadgets, and everything for which there is either an OS X or Apple for Windows analogue.
 
Hey I'm having the same exact problem with my 2.5ghz macbook pro. It has the 512mb 8600m gt nvidia card, 2gb ram -> hoping to get 4 in the near future, and I get the same screen that you have in your picture. I was wondering what files you went into to fix the problem. (I'm trying to run vista business 64-bit btw)
 
Peter2123 said:
Hey I'm having the same exact problem with my 2.5ghz macbook pro. It has the 512mb 8600m gt nvidia card, 2gb ram -> hoping to get 4 in the near future, and I get the same screen that you have in your picture. I was wondering what files you went into to fix the problem. (I'm trying to run vista business 64-bit btw)
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Goto C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT
Delete "winsat.txt"
Goto the folder "DataStore"
Delete everything within "DataStore"

Refresh Score.

I have 5.1 on my current MBP. Specs in Sig.
 
Tallest Skil said:
When you go back to Vista, they won't be mysteriously reinstalled (like they would if you did it from within Windows), and they give you more space.
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Hi Tallest Silk,
can you explain this a bit cos I don't really understand. In Vista you don't unsinstall an application by dragging the icon to the trash. Why it shouldn't be possible to unionstall an application from within Vista ?

Thanks,
Tex
 
Tex-Twil said:
Hi Tallest Silk,
can you explain this a bit cos I don't really understand. In Vista you don't unsinstall an application by dragging the icon to the trash. Why it shouldn't be possible to unionstall an application from within Vista ?

Thanks,
Tex
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I think he means that you would get MacFuse and be able to read the NTFS portion of your harddrive from within OSX. Or something like that. Correct me if I'm wrong.

..And wow, reading about the crap you need to do to fix Vista by deleting system files and modifying things turns me off to the idea of ever installing it on my MBP. Bad memories :p. Thanks for the good information everyone :)
 
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