Pc performance maximizing...

[Rilder]

I found this little guide for getting the most out of your computer, its made for another game (RTW Rules) but it should work well for SHIII and other games so i thought id post it here :D

http://www.stratcommandcenter.com/rtw/maximizepc.php

[tycho102]

That is actually a very decent guide. I was expecting something far less, and I was going to post much of what is already in that article.

I do have something to add, though. When you go down through your "Services", double click on the ones you want to shut down, go under the "Hardware Profile" tab, and select "Disable". For some services, Microsoft will reset them from "manual" startup to "automatic" startup. By disabling them in the hardware profile, you will override this behavior, and the service really will stay shut off until you enable it.

Defragmenting your page file can also help. There are two ways of doing this. The easiest way is to reduce it to ZERO and reboot. Then *disable* it and reboot. Defrag and reboot. Then set the page file to a set size (i.e. min/max 2048MB). This will create a single massive swap file in a decent area of your hard disk.

No matter what size hard disk you have (unless it's a 6GB jobbie), partitioning your drive will help you significantly. This is because all your data will stay on the outside of the drive, regardless of whatever kind of retarded write algorithm that NTFS uses. For example, I generally use a 30GB partition for Windows. This is enough for people who use quite a few office programs, such as Maya, Office, and AutoCAD. For gamers, 20GB would be far better, with the rest of the drive going to a "d:\games" partition and folder. Having 30,000 fewer files on your system drive will give you a noticable filesystem improvement.

[moose1am]

Warning: Be careful what you disable in the services part of windows. Some of the services can't be Re-enabled after you disable them. That's what happened to me when I disabled the wrong services. So be careful what you disable in there.

Also I would recommend that you setup a RESTORE POINT before you disable the system restore thing in windows. While disabling this will speed up Windows you can't recover your system if you really screw up things.

This link below is one of the most detailed explainations that I have seen in a while.

Remember the best way to speed up your system is adding more physical memory and putting in a newer video card that has more video ram memory on the card itself. Swap files storage of video memory is very slow compared to the ram on a video card.

I found this little guide for getting the most out of your computer, its made for another game (RTW Rules) but it should work well for SHIII and other games so i thought id post it here :D

http://www.stratcommandcenter.com/rtw/maximizepc.php