Von Dach can u explain please how to configure UDefrag 3 to get the best perfomance defragmentin, im a little confuse with all the option Bye
I have 2 HDD's. One for games and the other for Windows. I setup UD3 for windows in Auto mode and in options I tick Put directories close to MFT, FragProtect, slider to Fast. With my Gaming HDD I use Consolidate and in options I tick Respect high, MFT, FragProtect. Then I went to tools settings select my gaming HDD and in High Performance I select Custom and I select the folders I want for high performance. For example games that are demanding on streaming from HDD.
A lot of tips and tweaks here - http://www.disktrix.com/Can_Your_Defrag_Software_Do_This_1.htm http://www.disktrix.com/Can_Your_Defrag_Software_Do_This_2.htm http://www.disktrix.com/Can_Your_Defrag_Software_Do_This_3.htm http://www.disktrix.com/Can_Your_Defrag_Software_Do_This_4.htm
Diable page file ? NOT ! 16bit sound NOT! etc etc sorry man I disagree with most of your suggestions. However a few are ok
i've always had HPET enabled since the early Nforce 4 days and never had any DPC, performance or reliability problems, DPC generelly hovered endlessly between 10 and 80 without any spikes when watching movies, playing games etc. also without Hpet games don't feel as smooth i get some sort of pauses and in Resident Evil 5 i lost 7fps (regained by enabling HPET), movies also seemed to stutter more (High Definition movies). but then again this is on my rigs, so your results may vary, no harm disabling Hpet, worth a try when troubleshooting but generally its recommended to leave it ON if you're using Vista / W7 (XP will show "high precision event" under device manager but won't use it). also some mobos allow you to set HPET to 32bit or 64bit, set it according to your OS.
Heres a tweak I find makes your PC very smooth. Luafv.sys If you have choose to permanently disable UAC and you are in the mood for an advanced tweak: Based on my understanding and in simple terms, UAC uses a driver called the UAC File Virtualization Filter Driver or luafv.sys to trick legacy apps (apps that aren't correctly written for UAC's least privilege) into thinking they are running with the privileges they think they need but really don't. Of course, if you aren't using UAC then you do not need this driver loaded. The setting is located in the registry: This is they key in it's default (enabled) [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\luafv] "Start"=dword:00000002 This is the key disabled: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\luafv] "Start"=dword:00000004
What is the best setting for page file on Win XP sp3? I now have set on C drive MIN= 1536 (1.5*1024) MAX:3072 (3*1024). Should I set MIN=MAX=1536 or MIN=MAX=1024 or MIN=512, MAX= 1024 ? Which is for best performance? Is it crucial to have set page file on partition where is XP ?
and According to RIFT developer they posted this at their forums http://forums.riftgame.com/showthread.php?82714-Client-Performance-Troubleshooting-Guide
"Always select 2/2.1 Speakers for your headphones if you want full dynamic range." Does this statement refer to the Windows settings, Sound Card settings (i.e. Xonar Audio Center) or both? Also, has anyone confirmed the validity of this statement? Do you really get more dynamic range with headphones by using the 2/2.1 Speaker setting? Where is the original source of this information? Personally, I'm using Windows XP and I don't see an option for 2/2.1 Speakers in my "Advanced Audio Properties". The closest setting I have to that is "Desktop stereo speakers" and I'm hard pressed to hear any difference in sound after choosing it. My Xonar Audio Center does have a 2-channel speaker setting but it disables my onboard headphone amp so that's not an option.
Bumping since I might have another tweak: Alot of those network tweaks have no effect what so ever on games such as fast paced shooters because they're TCP tweaks. Though the MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit), seems to affect UDP as well. For those (easily seen in source OB engine based games by using net_graph in console), who experience loss or choke on their connection, lowering the MTU might help. A smaller MTU will cause it to send more packages, but smaller. The downside is that your ping might go up slightly (30 ping might become 35 when lowering it alot). The benefit is that there's less chance the smaller packages will be fragmented and thus lost.
You sure about that last part..afaik a larger MTU helps prevent fragmented packets because more data can be sent in one packet.....router and NIC mtu's need to be same size fwiw.. I think a too large MTU can cuz packet loss also, tho I can't remember why...
You can try.....I did but not sure if it was really disabled. Check with DPS Latency Checker to know for sure.
There's a boot entry you can add with bcdedit, if you want to look it up cuz I can't remember the exact cmd line. It's usepmtimer or useplatformclock or similar...
Sure, good one, I'll add it in my next update (when I'm in a mood for it). Yes, don't disable HPET, it was a good tweak before knowing than Win7 mix-up TSC and HPET timers on default configuration. HPET work great, better than TSC if you use it as the only timer for all your system. To do that open a admin command prompt Type "bcdedit /set useplatformclock true". Reboot more info in my thread here: http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlefield-bad-company-2-pc/1273328-performance-tweaks.html I update that one more often at the moment. In all the gaming tweaks I know it's now the most important to apply for me. Also this one from Gregorez improve smoothness a lot: http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=344967 I don't know for NVIDIA but AMD seem to have ****ty fan PWM controller.
I found a solution to micro stuttering on BC2 and Crysis after applying some tweaks on xp from this site. http://tweaks.com/