On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Robert G. Brown wrote: > I don't believe that Vista's slowness has anything to do with hardware > memory footprint.
Probably this, from page 14 of "Output Content Protection and Windows Vista" at http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/stream/output_protect.mspx : > In addition to an initiated request, the vendor-supplied driver is required > to poll the state of the hardware outputs at least once every 30 > milliseconds if a user-accessible bus is present. So *at least* 30 times a second your machine is waking up to check nothing has happened - per driver. At the risk of blatant self-promotion, you can find more juicy titbits here: http://www.csamuel.org/2006/12/29/microsoft-details-on-vista-protections/ My favourite is about DVI monitors: > As a result, a regular DVI monitor will either get slightly fuzzy or go > black, with a polite message explaining that it doesn’t meet security > requirements. cheers, Chris -- Christopher Samuel - (03) 9925 4751 - Systems Manager The Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing P.O. Box 201, Carlton South, VIC 3053, Australia VPAC is a not-for-profit Registered Research Agency
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