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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
These are the things I'm wondering. I have it set up as a NTFS system. I defrag about once every two weeks as my daughters load up Barbie games and things off the internet etc. Sponge Bob games can slow things down  At any rate, if I disable VM and defrag, effectively I clean up VM and start fresh?
I have basically the same system as you with exception of 2 gig DD400 and X1300 XGE 512mb vidcard. How does your system handle SH4? |
Well, apart from the GFX card and the RAM, my pc also doesn't come with a full set of daughters.
So, I don't defrag my disk that often (less than once a year?). I don't delete stuff that often so I only add stuff which means the disks are in pretty okay condition. I run my game at 1152 x 800 or something. No volumetric fog and all that stuff. I get about 17-18fps since I use that Living Breathing Ocean mod. Was about 2 fps higher before that I think.
What makes a difference for me is to start my PC with only the necessary windows services running. So, no stuff in the system tray and no stuff running in the background. Also very important is that I run a RAM defragmentation before I start SH4. That alone gives me 20-30 Mb of RAM extra. If I then shutdown all apps running in the background and stop unnecessary Windows services my memory goes up from about 650Mb RAM to around 770Mb RAM.
I can't do much about my videocard though. So, waiting till Vista 64 bit becomes a bit more common and then get a 4Gb RAM pc or laptop with a new DX10 gfx card.
I hope that helps.