RE: gameplay performance

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oh, and before you mess with all the settings and any services, it might be a
good idea to setup a completely seperate profile for your gaming. Just logout
and login as your gaming account and if you screw something up you can just
recreate the account and have most the changes back to normal.

"Norrec" wrote:

> Game performance has so many variables, it's difficult to pin them down. It
> could be cpu usage, memory, or hardware performance. Looking over your tasks,
> you're not really running anything that isn't needed, except for pctspk.exe,
> which is some kind of software for PCTEL modems.
>
> When checking which services are running as someone else mentioned, be sure
> to check dependancies before disabling stuff you're not familiar. And only
> stop them until you're sure it doesn't screw anything up. When you're sure
> it's not necessary, you can change the start-up option to disabled.
>
> As for memory issues, make sure you have plenty of harddrive space for your
> pagefile or this will cause many problems. You should be able to find a neat
> little program like TweakUI that forces the OS to unload dlls that aren't in
> use before you play. Your other programs will load slowly the next time you
> run them because they all have to load their libraries back into memory, but
> it should give you a decent boost in memory for your game. Also setting
> windows XP to look like windows 2k releases a slight amount of memory. Can
> right click on My Computer, go to properties. Then under the Advanced Tab,
> select "Adjust for Best Performance". I use this option more because I like
> the drab look of 2k, not because of the memory it uses. While you're in
> performance options, check the Advanced tab and make sure both radio buttons
> are on "Programs" and that your total paging file size is atleast 1.5x the
> actual memory you have installed. You should have a minimal of that amount of
> space free on your harddrive at all times.
>
> If you don't have much harddrive space, you may consider turning off system
> restore, and any kind of protected recycle bin you might have (norton
> installs something like that).
>
> As for hardware, make sure you apply all the windows updates, and then
> download the vendor drivers afterwards. After installing the latest video
> drivers, you might get another update on Windows Update because the latest
> drivers usually aren't WHQL signed. Don't download the one from windows as it
> will revert you back to an older driver set.
>
> Also ensure you have your latest firmware and bios from your motherboard
> manufacturer, as they sometimes come out with enhancements for cpu/memory/agp
> controllers.
>
> If you experience any blue screens or unexpected freezing/restarts after
> updating your video drivers, try rolling back to a previous driver version in
> the device manager.
>
> Turn off virus protection while in games, as some scanners will scan a file
> anytime its accessed and can cause some games to freeze or respond slowly.
>
> I've noticed that some games like BF1942 run like crap on my system (AMD),
> but if I alt-tab out and set the process priority to high (never use
> real-time), it runs really smooth until the next map change.
>
> Hope some of these tips help you out.
>
> "djg106" wrote:
>
> > Below are the processes always running in task manager.In order of CPU usage from greatest to least.What all can I safely shut down to improve game performance?
> >
> >
> > explorer.exe
> > svchost.exe
> > ccApp.exe
> > winlogon.exe
> > NPROTECT.EXE
> > svchost.exe
> > svchost.exe
> > spoolsv.exe
> > csrss.exe
> > ctfmon.exe
> > services.exe
> > CCEVTMGR.EXE
> > NOPDB.EXE
> > nvsvc32.exe
> > svchost.exe
> > svchost.exe
> > NAVAPSVC.EXE
> > pctspk.exe
> > lsass.exe
> > acsd.exe
> > smss.exe
> > System
> > System Idle Process
> >
> >
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