A little Help With Load Times

[HuskerNlincoln]

First off,

I want to say "Thank You" to the creators of GWX 3.0, again an amazing success. You all continue to breath new life into this game. I recently did the reinstall, patch, and 3.0 mod, and the game looks great.

I take it that most of us here are pretty well versed on computers and at the same time I have noticed there are some issues with load times.

I wanted to add my two cents. I have been building, tweaking, and modifying systems privately, and even professionally, and have found a few little softwares that can not only cut load times in half, but also speed your system, and I have noticed a little better playing experience.

The first one is power defrag. It uses new a technology to compress your hard drive, file by file. It leaves them where they are on the drive, but smashes them to the lowest possible size. Nothing to worry about as far as hurting your system, just takes awhile.

Once this is done I run O&O Defrag, this software then arranges the smashed files in the best possible placement for optimum performance on your drive. Again no issues to worry about. These two steps get your SH3 files compressed and in order. Resulting in faster access.

Lastly I run a registry defrag to clean out any erroneous entries that slow down your system. I use Argente registry cleaner.

All of these can be found for free at www. Majorgeeks.com Simply run a search for the names.

TO give you an idea, I have an Athlon XP 3000, 4 gigs of ram, 320 WD hard drive, NVidia 8200gt and when I benchmark it on PC Pitstop it still rates in the top 20% of the fastest machines of the 10's of thousands tested there. That's why I can't pull the trigger to upgrade as of yet.

I hope this helps, and feel free to PM me if you need assistance, all these softwares will work safely with any operating system.

[Dowly]

Thanks, will try those.

[kranz]

all seems ok but you forgot to mention "defrag." time....

[Murr44]

Another good defrag program is JK Defrag which is available here: http://kessels.com/JkDefrag/index.html. It's free (no unwanted crap is included in the download) & he has a link to CCleaner on the site too (for those interested in that application). I use this defrag program on both of my machines and it works pretty well.

P.S. If you get the CCleaner program, choose the slim version. It doesn't have a toolbar included.

[Nemisis]

Thanks for these HuskerNLincoln

I used the Registrty cleaner first just to see how bad my system was and it found 700ish errors, fixed, then i rebooted and the difference was very noticeable in load times for XP Pro.

Still got the Defraggers working at the moment but will give you the low down on how much of a difference they make.

Thanks

[Jimbuna]

I use RegVac automatically on each bootup.

http://www.regvac.com/regvac.htm

Free to try.