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Old 11-16-09, 05:35 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by onelifecrisis View Post
A common recommendation for improved game performance is to shut down background processes. It's good advice - on my old machine (which ran XP on a single core CPU) it was practically mandatory. However my new machine is a different kettle of fish.

Given that my new PC is a quad-core, I am wondering, if a particular game...
(a) does not use anywhere near my total system RAM and
(b) is GPU locked
then am I correct in thinking that shutting down background processes (such as antivirus) is not going to help performance in that game?
What OS are you using on your new system? I heard XP doesn't play nicely w/ quad-cores.
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