Tips to speed up your computer for gaming

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Posted by Blue. on Jan-31-2005 21:17:

Tips to speed up your computer for gaming

Well what are some good tips for speeding up your computer for games other than the obvious ones like to not have other programs running, disabling antivirus and having updated drivers.

Posted by Yan on Jan-31-2005 22:24:

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Posted by KilldaDJ on Jan-31-2005 23:58:

get shit loads of ram and cpu power, a shit hot gfx card and put it on the lowest setting at like 640x480x16

there, fast as fuck at like 800fps or something

Posted by DarkAngel on Feb-01-2005 00:13:

quote:
Originally posted by KilldaDJ
get shit loads of ram and cpu power, a shit hot gfx card and put it on the lowest setting at like 640x480x16

there, fast as fuck at like 800fps or something

Think that resolution would be good for Half-Life�?

Posted by Blue. on Feb-01-2005 02:50:

Obviously better hardware would do it, I'm not that stupid, I'm talking about software and such that might help me out.

Posted by Yan on Feb-01-2005 03:53:

quote:
Originally posted by trance_n_dance
Obviously better hardware would do it, I'm not that stupid, I'm talking about software and such that might help me out.

Anything that cleans up your registry.

Posted by NeoPhono on Feb-01-2005 13:23:

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Originally posted by Yan
Anything that cleans up your registry.

Just delete your registry.

Try this at your own risk.

Posted by yujie__ on Feb-01-2005 16:13:

overclock everything and do a fresh install every time when its necessary.

Posted by Trypt0mine on Feb-01-2005 19:06:

just make sure youre computer is running as clean as possible and if thats not enough, its time to overclock btw whats ur system specs?

Posted by infinity HiGH on Feb-01-2005 23:07:

overclocking isn't as easy as it sounds, and it won't do that much of a difference if you're not running the right hardware.

Posted by jon on Feb-01-2005 23:46:

defrag your harddrive, get latest drivers for all your hardware, adjust game video settings for more performace/less detail or less performance/more detail unless you have loadsa �� then get top of range hardware and adjust settings for more performance/more detail.

Posted by MikHail on Feb-02-2005 08:39:

Scan Your PC for Spyware Programs/Files using PestPatrol www.pestpatrol.com or Ad-Aware http://www.lavasoft.com/

I like pestpatrol

Make sure that autoupdating is turned off, If your playing a game and lets just say 1 hour into playing, software such as windows or anti-virus will start autoupdating itself causing lag.

I don't recommend overclocking, I found quirks after 6 months, like locking up on a loading screen, or windows wouldn't boot.

Also motherboard Chipset Drivers do a good boost, depending what chipset you have, get the appropiate update for it

To name a few chipsets there is

Intel
SiS
Via
NForce
AMD

Posted by Blue. on Feb-03-2005 00:18:

I just formatted so defragging and checking for spyware won't do to much. Are there any tweaking programs specificaly for this, that will devote more resources to the game or something like that, or make the game directory faster for the computer to read?

Posted by yujie__ on Feb-03-2005 01:33:

if that didnt work then your equipment is slow and/or u have a bottleneck somewhere. get a almost top of the line system and overclock till you are good to go for couple of generations. my overclock athlonxp-m still does me good for what i do till something major happens or something like that

Posted by MikHail on Feb-04-2005 07:12:

If your using a Pentium Celeron or AMD Duron, don't bother tweaking, those are cut down perfomance CPUs wouldn't have much of an effect.

There are Video Tweak Programs and Software CPU overclocking, you just have to know what hardware you've got, theres a few Game Tweak Guides so Google them down.

But really when it comes to Games, Its about the perfomance which makes it Great!

Get 2nd hand parts If you have to.

Oh and Defragging will only speed up Loading Times.

Posted by Geoff on Feb-05-2005 21:16:

format

Posted by NeoPhono on Feb-05-2005 23:20:

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Originally posted by Geoff
format

YOUR FACE!!!!!111

Posted by Geoff on Feb-06-2005 04:31:

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Originally posted by NeoPhono
YOUR FACE!!!!!111

uh yes, exactly

Posted by Billabong on Feb-08-2005 23:56:

www.overclockers.co.uk
www.overclockers.com

Posted by TranceXtasy on Feb-15-2005 04:11:

Black Viper

Posted by infinity HiGH on Feb-15-2005 04:18:

quote:
Originally posted by MikHail
I don't recommend overclocking, I found quirks after 6 months, like locking up on a loading screen, or windows wouldn't boot.

Also motherboard Chipset Drivers do a good boost, depending what chipset you have, get the appropiate update for it

To name a few chipsets there is

Intel
SiS
Via
NForce
AMD

I'm running an Athlon 64 3000+ Winchester core. It's supposed to be an overclocking beast; a CPU that can be easily pushed to 2.4GHZ from it's standard 1.8GHZ using stock Heatsink & Fan.

And guess what? I can't push mine past 2.1GHZ.

SO yea, I also don't recommend OC'ing, unless you really know what you're doing. And, like I said before, you have the right hardware and some LUCK too.

Posted by Blue. on Feb-15-2005 04:27:

It doesn't matter much anymore since I got my NX Geforce 6600GT

Along with the new computer that had a gig of ram and a 3ghz processor, but it was taken back so we could get something faster