• Methods to speed up PC.
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Anyone know of any good ways to speed up my PC, or potentially my game TF2. I'm already running a tweak on TF2, I use Gamebooster aswell, and have most windows services turned off, I've ran MalewareBytes, Comodo Antivirus and used CCleaner to clean out temporary files. Plus all programmes are closed when I run TF2. I also have my CPU + GPU Overclocked. I've done a defrag both of my harddrive, and of my Steam .gcf files using HLExtract. Anyway I know that's a ton of crap, but I was wondering If anyone knows more ways to get the best out of my PC or other means of cleaning junk out to speed up normal processes.
Specs. now. also try CCleaner and defrag
Em did you read the OP? [U][b]Plus my specs are:[/U][/b] Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-G33M-S2 CPU: Intel Dual Core E2160 1.80GHz (OC'd to 2.10GHz) Graphics Card: Nvidia 8600GT RAM: 2GB OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit
You have pretty much done everything other than getting new hardware to speed it up.
Cut down more on unneeded services? There was a website that had tonnes of preset reg files to do some for you but I can't remember where it was...url was similar to a type of snake or something iirc O.o
[QUOTE=cheater99;26567364]Cut down more on unneeded services? There was a website that had tonnes of preset reg files to do some for you but I can't remember where it was...url was similar to a type of snake or something iirc O.o[/QUOTE] that can mess you up if your not careful
Your processor is letting you down a lot in Source games, and over all performance. If anything you should consider a CPU upgrade.
It's christmas, bug somebody to give you money and build a new PC.
Sigh it's sad they won't optimize TF2. Used to run it on high when it came out without a hitch.
[QUOTE=Drax-Quin;26568221]Sigh it's sad they won't optimize TF2. Used to run it on high when it came out without a hitch.[/QUOTE] Well that's because the engine has changed and they've added content. It still plays and looks fine on medium, doesn't it?
More like low. Engine hasn't change all that much, it's the particle effects mainly they kill my PC, and the newer ones are unoptimized. I don't care I love TF2, provided I can play it is fine, sad there is no other way but to upgrade :(.
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hi whale run > msconfig go to services, check 'hide microsoft services', uncheck most, goto 'start up' or whatever it's called, uncheck not necessary applications. If done correctly and if you actually removed quite a few applications from there, you will most likely speed up the boot time. And since those applications don't get started in the first place, your pc might run a bit faster.
Look into getting a new budget processor. E5600 or so.
[QUOTE=Drax-Quin;26567194]Em did you read the OP? [U][b]Plus my specs are:[/U][/b] Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-G33M-S2 CPU: Intel Dual Core E2160 1.80GHz (OC'd to 2.10GHz) Graphics Card: Nvidia 8600GT RAM: 2GB OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit[/QUOTE] Well, it's christmas! how much can you afford or do you really not want to upgrade? You could try and fit in atleast a 9800gt and a better processor.
What does defrag do anyways?
[QUOTE=alt;26570589]hi whale run > msconfig go to services, check 'hide microsoft services', uncheck most, goto 'start up' or whatever it's called, uncheck not necessary applications. If done correctly and if you actually removed quite a few applications from there, you will most likely speed up the boot time. And since those applications don't get started in the first place, your pc might run a bit faster.[/QUOTE] I actually just done this, booted it up on Safe Mode with networking, and turned practically everything off that wasn't running excluding services required for sound, and it's running a lot smoother thanks. [editline]9th December 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=TheNuB;26572761]What does defrag do anyways?[/QUOTE] Well after a long usage of your PC, files become fragmented which means as the word suggests they're broken into smaller pieces. When you require to load a certain file from your hard drive, what basically happens is your computer goes round files in a rotation sort of sense, each time it goes back and forth things get more unordely and slow as you delete files causing gaps and breaks where the hard-drive would previoulsy be reading a file. Essentially defragmenting removes those breaks, making it much faster for your computer to write the file you're looking for. Essentially speeding everything up because it's now much easier for your hard-drive to basically read through your files without any breaks or gaps causing it too slow down espicially if you haven't defraged in ages which by the sound of things you probably haven't. [editline]9th December 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=ineedateam1;26568016]that can mess you up if your not careful[/QUOTE] How could turning off services possibly mess up your PC? Only a handfull are actually required most of which for networking the rest is just useless crap that is always enabled regardless of whether you actually require it. [editline]9th December 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=FlubberNugget;26571712]Well, it's christmas! how much can you afford or do you really not want to upgrade? You could try and fit in atleast a 9800gt and a better processor.[/QUOTE] Really not looking to spending or asking for upgraded equipment, I don't do much on this PC, just Steam Games, I'm not the sort of person to dish out £500 for a bigger GFX for prettier graphics, when essentially I'm just playing for the gameplay.
That 60 pounds you spent on games could get you a 9800GT easily, sometimes you have to dish out to even get gameplay.
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;26575333]That 60 pounds you spent on games could get you a 9800GT easily, sometimes you have to dish out to even get gameplay.[/QUOTE]This. The 9800GT is probably the biggest bang for your buck. Also I'd like to add since TF2 uses a lot of, uh how should I say, "solid" color textures, there isn't much of a difference between Low and High settings. The only differences that are obvious is the Anti-aliasing and some misc. textures like the Scout's bat. Whenever I buy a new computer I'm a freak about it and want to run everything on High but eventually accept bitter sweat realization that the computer I just bought, all though being a bang for my buck, won't be able to run Crysis on Very High. :3:
True I guess if I want good gameplay I have to meet a balance with graphics, I'll look into the 9800GT seeing as my card is old as shit now. Thanks for convincing me guys, great help as usual!
[QUOTE=.Lain;26567023]Specs. now. also try CCleaner and defrag[/QUOTE] I also used CCleaner but in time i found alot of programs! And now i use Krojam Cleaner! I think is best one [highlight](User was permabanned for this post ("spambot" - postal))[/highlight]
holy shit, 2010. i was cheeky! avoid bumping old threads like this, mate. post about small problems in technical support or something instead of bumping of creating a new thread
Just in case anyone still has an old rig that they want to run modern source games on better, run these commands in the console: mat_motion_blur_enabled 0 (can give up to a 50 fps boost on old hardware) mat_bumpmap 0 (disables normal maps) mat_specular 0 (disables env maps, sometimes required when disabling normal maps to prevent artifacts) mat_dxlevel 81 (forces game to run at a lower DX standard, looks bad but can give a good perf boost) Also if you have a dual core/Hyperthreaded CPU (Pentium 4/Pentium D), you can try to play with the cl_threaded_* cvars which can sometimes give a performance boost at the cost of background application speed. Using all of these, I've gotten an Athlon XP 3200+ with a Radeon 9800 PRO and 2 GB of RAM to run TF2 at 40-60 FPS as long as things didn't get too spammy. There are more options to turn down model quality and such which also help.
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[QUOTE=Polonium9;44139034]mycleanpc[/QUOTE] Eh. I'd still recommend MyCleanPC over Zone Alarm.
[QUOTE=Levelog;44142585]Eh. I'd still recommend MyCleanPC over Zone Alarm.[/QUOTE] At least you can uninstall MyCleanPC.
[QUOTE=GiGaBiTe;44142929]At least you can uninstall MyCleanPC.[/QUOTE] And it's arguably less intrusive and takes up less system resources.
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