Chxfryer:If it runs so slowly in windowed mode and relativly fine in fullscreen, it might be the desktop settings (wrong color depth or something) or turn off aero.  Of course my laptop wont't play HD-DVDs if aero is off, so that was a wild guess.I already said earlier that I went back to XP. I'm glad I did. :)For now, I've decided to ...

Okay, anyways... My goal is to eventually create a Tales-style RPG, with Tales of Symphonia style graphics. I think DirectX 8 can handle it. Hopefully, you guys won't be too offended that I might use Irrlicht CP... that is if I can find an input library that will work with it.But XNA has everything I need, as well as samples and tutorials, though ...

Oh, don't worry. I'm not on Vista. I got sick of it and went back to XP.Maybe ATI will have some info. Irrlicht.NETCP's IRC channel is dead, and normal Irrlicht doesn't seem to have one.

That's a good idea. I'll check with them.The biggest reason this doesn't make sense to me is because this laptop came with Vista Home Premium, with Aero enabled. And Vista comes with DirectX 10.

I hate to sound like a broken record, but that doesn't explain why there's a 70 FPS difference between Direct3D8 and Direct3D9.EDIT: I don't wanna hijack this thread. Where should I go to start a new thread for help with this?

I doubt it. The only thing I did was load up a quake 3 level and set up a camera to fly around it. I'd hate to find that out, though. I'd love to ble able to get more speed out of XNA stuff. And then there's still the issue of windowed games running horridly.

Yeah, it was set to retail. I noticed a /!\ in DXDiag about the debug dll, though... I deleted it (sent it to the Recycling Bin, I'm probably gonna restore it after this post), but it made no difference, and only greyed out that paft of the control panel. I'm using my little Irrlicht.NETCP program to benchmark right now. Direct3D 8, fullscreen, ...

See, I'm an ignorant yet aspiring noob, and had no idea that existed. :P Thanks for telling me about that!How do I disable it?

The snowflake thing worked. Unfortunately, it's running pretty badly for me. 640x480 with all my ATI stuff at highest performance, and the engine set to low (why do you take the water away? ;_;), I can't break 50 FPS for practical views of the terrain. Of course, looking straight down, I get 137 FPS. Of course, running in Med is out; I can't break ...

Hi there. It's me, from the other thread.The engine won't run at all for me. Firstly, I get 14 warnings when building (I am building in Release mode... I think. The drop box says release):Warning    1    Unreachable expression code detected    S:\Program Files\QuickStart Engine v0.182a\QuickStart ...