"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message 
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> St. wrote:
>>    Well, maybe not, but it does make a difference.
>
> That's weird. I have no idea why it would make that much of a difference. 
> I didn't think the Windows scheduler sucked that much. :-)

     Well, I didn't disable that. I left all windows services running and 
disabled ZA, AVG email scanner, AVG Watchdog, Google update service, 
Ad-Aware, Epson printer status, A-Squared free service, Office source engine 
and nVidia driver service(???).

     I guess you could also disable a lot of Windows services too, but you'd 
have to be careful (or at least I would), because some rely on others to 
work and I haven't got a clue as to what services rely on others.


>
> (It's not that I didn't believe you. It just wasn't clear to me from your 
> earlier posts whether this was a first-hand experience or something you 
> heard rumored somewhere.  Actually, reading it again, it is clear you said 
> you personally experienced that. Sorry.)

 Dang man! Now you've just killed my trolling! ;)  No need to apologise 
Darren, I'm not the brightest spark in an engine when it comes to computers 
that's for sure. But I continue to learn from you guys as best I can.  :)

   Here's something I learnt all by my very own self only an hour ago. 
Today, I bought a 500Gb external hard drive. I shoved all of my FarCry files 
(2 gigs)over to it, and all of my Crysis files (6 gigs) too. I then tested 
my map ingame after trying to sort out the first savepoint in my level. It 
*felt* even faster than it usually does! The savepoint didn't work, so I've 
done something wrong, but when I figure what it is and test it again, I'll 
get Fraps to show me the fps ingame. This is with all services on. Hmm, just 
getting rid of 8 gigs helps game performance? I'm not so sure about that, 
but it felt more 'fluid' if you like.

  See, that's the kind of thing that puzzles me about computers. <scratches 
rapidly balding head> Heh... ;)

     ~Steve~


>
> -- 
> Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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