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Old January 19th 04, 11:31 PM
Graeme
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"Noozer" wrote in message
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"Graeme" wrote in message
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"Xanophile" wrote in message
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oh my lord.......these people who think you need the latest and
greatest. bigger better faster more......it's just sad. if my
girlfriend's p2 450 can run todays games without problems, i'm quite
sure yours can, too.


LOL. Exactly what do you call "today's games" ?


Doom, Commander Keen, Castle Wolfenstien 3D... You know. All the GOOD
games!


Ah, some good memories there. I think I'll actually get my old Keen out and
see if it still runs.


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Old January 20th 04, 12:19 AM
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"Xanophile" wrote in message news5YOb.1614$312.546@edtnps89...
and that means......well......it pretty much means nothing.

minimum system requirements are pretty much the lowest spec'd system
they tried it on. or had handy. your choice. that don't mean it won't
run if you don't use what they tell you to.

you'd be amazed at the tricks you can pull from an old hat. or go waste
your money on things you don't need. again......your choice.


Do you think the attitude of game software developers would be so casual with the minimum requirements given
that the lower the advertised minimum requirements, the bigger the potential market?

Tony.

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Old January 20th 04, 01:13 PM
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On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 02:48:59 GMT, wrote::

My main computer seems slower than it should be. This has been the case
for some time, but when I got the game Ubi for Christmas, I found it
unplayable. I turn everything off and run it when my son's family is by,
but I can't get responses that allow me to move smoothly at all nor do such
needed things as jump over a chasm.

My biggest suspect is my video card - quite often when I turn off my
computer, I get an "End Program" window after Windows cannot close my Nvida
Twin View window. I have a video card with two outputs going to two
monitors.


I need some advice about how to improve my performance.


Running Belarc Advisor, I see:

Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1 (build 2600)
933 megahertz Intel Pentium III
32 kilobyte primary memory cache
256 kilobyte secondary memory cache
256 Megabytes Installed Memory


As Primary and Secondary cache are built into the CPU, they're not
really worth mentioning, but system memory is another matter.

My first suggestion would be to up the installed memory from 256Megs
to at LEAST 512megs. Some games list a *minimum* of 256megs, but
there will be a lot of swapping, which will slow down performance
rediculously. Considering some of the software you're running,
running 1Gigabyte isn't unheard of as I notice there are a couple of
photo/graphics editing programs in there. Those are notorious for
heavy memory usage.

The GeForce4 MX440 video card may not be the most favored video card,
but its performance is actually pretty decent. It may not be shader
capable, but it certainly has enough punch for any game where you can
turn off shaders.

I also notice that you've got a fairly long laundry list of programs.
Some of which, seem to duplicate functionality, and even a couple of
instances where you've installed different versions of the same
program. Firebird, for example, is the pre-release test version for
the browser component of the Mozilla suite.

If you don't need them, you might want to consider paring it down to
necessities. Certainly, you should disable any unnecessary features
that involve having something in the system tray. If you need it
fine, but really, those quickstart loaders that have become popular?
They eat up resources even when you're not running the program, and
they'll save you maybe 1 or 2 seconds on load times. Hardly worth it
IMO.

SNIP - really long list of installed software

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Thanks,
MCheu
 




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