adrianhall
Well, i tried it. On reboot I was greeted with 4-bit colour at 800x600 8) and a Geforce4 that 'wasn't working properly'
Thank the Lord for XP's System Restore, made sure to do a checkpoint before installing it. IAA is now in the old recycle bin!!
Thank the Lord for XP's System Restore, made sure to do a checkpoint before installing it. IAA is now in the old recycle bin!!
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Four and Twenty
i tryed the beta and it did weird things with redtecting my hardware
i don't feel like trying the final now if it still has problems
i don't feel like trying the final now if it still has problems
adrianhall
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I've solved the problem - something to do with XP's prefetch, possibly also Detonator drivers as when I updated my Det's I got a similar problem (ie Code 10, device couldn't start - device being the graphics card). In that case I just re-booted and my gfx card was o.k.
This time around I disabled prefetch in the registry, also cleared out the prefetch directory, then installed Intels AA. Rebooted and it was o.k. I've since re-enabled the prefetch and everything's fine so it's possibly more of a Detonator issue than Intel.
Not sure if it's faster, boot-up is about the same, Windows use may seem a little more 'snappy' - just my observation though, no numbers to back up.
This time around I disabled prefetch in the registry, also cleared out the prefetch directory, then installed Intels AA. Rebooted and it was o.k. I've since re-enabled the prefetch and everything's fine so it's possibly more of a Detonator issue than Intel.
Not sure if it's faster, boot-up is about the same, Windows use may seem a little more 'snappy' - just my observation though, no numbers to back up.
adrianhall
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Spoke too soon. Turned off PC overnight, rebooted and it was back to 4-bit colour. Disabled prefetch again, left PC off for 20mins and it was o.k. but the negligible speed increase of IAA vs the negligible decrease of disabling prefetch probably means no speed diff at all!!
System restore to before installing IAA and leave XP's default drivers, not worth the effort.
System restore to before installing IAA and leave XP's default drivers, not worth the effort.
Four and Twenty
so this software just sucks
I installed it and got that same problem
I knew I shouldn't have done it. At least it didn't cause a reinstall
I installed it and got that same problem
I knew I shouldn't have done it. At least it didn't cause a reinstall
adrianhall
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In a similar thread I started over at www.nvnews.net a guy was having exact problem. The prefetch thing king of fixed it for him, but he reckons he's now got it solved.
After installing IAA and before rebooting, go into device manager and double click on each of ATA Controller (can't remember name, I'm at work), primary IDE and Secondary IDE and just o.k. each. Apparently something to do with not applying the update properly.
Not tried it yet, not sure I'm going to. I didn't see any big performance boost although this guy reckons he's seen an improvement.
After installing IAA and before rebooting, go into device manager and double click on each of ATA Controller (can't remember name, I'm at work), primary IDE and Secondary IDE and just o.k. each. Apparently something to do with not applying the update properly.
Not tried it yet, not sure I'm going to. I didn't see any big performance boost although this guy reckons he's seen an improvement.
Crunchmeister
I didn't try this on my Windows XP box at home, but I did install it on my 1.7 GHz PIV running Windows 2000 at work.
I ran some benchmarks with PCMark2002, 3dMark2001, and SYSmark2002, and the results are the same before and after. I'm not sure what this 'application accelerator' is supposed to do, but I haven't seen any improvement. Time to uninstall.
I ran some benchmarks with PCMark2002, 3dMark2001, and SYSmark2002, and the results are the same before and after. I'm not sure what this 'application accelerator' is supposed to do, but I haven't seen any improvement. Time to uninstall.
