Elwood
08-31-2002, 02:27 PM
Hi,
Just trying to pass on what I've learned over the past year. Set computer's role to Network Server for faster hard drive acess. Set a permanent swapfile size after scandisk and defrag. set both values to 1.5 (for 256MB RAM) to 2.5 (for 128) times RAM. Get Norton Speed Disk and let it move your swapfile to the outside edge of hard disk for fast access (optimize swapfile option). Get Cacheman and let it's wizards guide you through for mostly gaming (set vcache min and max to same amount, default max). Use msconfig and stop all unnecessary stuff from loading at startup. Disable anti-virus while playing games. If you experience crashes of games while playing experiment with different sound playback accelerations. I hope this helps somebody, but as with all advice take this with a grain of salt.
P.S. Turn off active desktop, backgrounds, and screensavers these use memory and resources.
One more thing, don't let Cacheman run in the background while gaming, just use it to set vcache and other stuff and turn it off in background. Rebooting between graphics intensive games is a good idea too.
P.S. Turn off all sounds except "exit windows" and all animated cursors, these can conflict with games and they always use resources and memory.
Everybody that plays games, especially first person shooters, owes it to themselves to get a usb optical mouse. It makes a huge difference in the smoothness and fluidity of movement and aiming.
Elwood
Just trying to pass on what I've learned over the past year. Set computer's role to Network Server for faster hard drive acess. Set a permanent swapfile size after scandisk and defrag. set both values to 1.5 (for 256MB RAM) to 2.5 (for 128) times RAM. Get Norton Speed Disk and let it move your swapfile to the outside edge of hard disk for fast access (optimize swapfile option). Get Cacheman and let it's wizards guide you through for mostly gaming (set vcache min and max to same amount, default max). Use msconfig and stop all unnecessary stuff from loading at startup. Disable anti-virus while playing games. If you experience crashes of games while playing experiment with different sound playback accelerations. I hope this helps somebody, but as with all advice take this with a grain of salt.
P.S. Turn off active desktop, backgrounds, and screensavers these use memory and resources.
One more thing, don't let Cacheman run in the background while gaming, just use it to set vcache and other stuff and turn it off in background. Rebooting between graphics intensive games is a good idea too.
P.S. Turn off all sounds except "exit windows" and all animated cursors, these can conflict with games and they always use resources and memory.
Everybody that plays games, especially first person shooters, owes it to themselves to get a usb optical mouse. It makes a huge difference in the smoothness and fluidity of movement and aiming.
Elwood