Quadro2pro, maya, xp, and what's up w/the slowdown

[kabab]

I am running dual xeon's at 1.4 ghz. 1 gig of rdram, 10,000 rpm hd's, and quadro 2 pro. I recently upgraded to windows XP and Maya 4. previously I was using maya 3.0 and windows 2000 and the setup was lightning fast and I had no complaints....
Now, with XP and Maya 4, I run into some slowdown????
mostly in my perspective viewport when I am zooming and panning around and such.....

what could be causing this problem?? I have been told that it may be the sub-D surfaces slowing it down, but I modeled a 160 poly count object and converted to sub-D's and the slow down occurs. This should not happen and I need a fix.

Any one with any advice please help
thanks,
surfdaearth

[kiwi]

XP = slow

Did you keep W2K, or blow it away when you installed XP?

I'd give XP (and it's device drivers) a few more months to mature (at least) before I'd base my living on it.

kiwi

[user_deleted]

I had the same slow down as you until a friend pointed me to www.tweakxp.com for helpful tips to making XP work for you and not you work for XP. Also has several handy download apps to tweak the performance of your system.

[jazzthief]

I'd recommend avoiding XP they eat up too much resources and full of bugs. I won't touch it til next year when a Service Pack is released. Best to go back to W2K.

[wopr]

when you install XP, it automatically instals the microsoft nvidia driver, WHICH SUCKS! delete it, and install the latest from nvidia, which was much faster for me. (ive got the same card)