TerrorX Posted March 8, 2002 Share Posted March 8, 2002 Just looking for any good tweaks for XP, what I should or should not have in the startup and maybe some services that could be shut off. This pc is strickly a game box running xp pro, and wish to squeeze as much performance out of this thing as possible. I have a AMD 1800xp cpu,256 ddr memory, geforce2 mx 100/200 video card and an older hard drive *cough* 6.4gb western digital 5400rpm 8.5ms and A Maxtor 8.4 gb hard drive as a slave where cmbo runs on. I seem to get some lag when playing games and am wondering if maybe it was my hard drives or video card. At times I play cmbo and it just creeps along other times it seems to run smooth as silk, ive noticed sometimes if I reboot the game runs smooth again. Thanks in Advance Memory is made by Samsung btw :confused: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harv Posted March 9, 2002 Share Posted March 9, 2002 Lots of information here: http://www.blkviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm Some here: http://www.tweak3d.net/tweak/winxp/ And a little here: http://www.tweak3d.net/tweak/winstartupnew/ I couldn't really tell if changing things made much of a difference, but it probably didn't hurt either. Standard disclaimer...if it melts into a little puddle of goo it wasn't my fault. Harv 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rucrazee Posted March 10, 2002 Share Posted March 10, 2002 Not a bad rig, but you coughed at the correct point (the hard drive(s)). Your hard drives are probably DMA 33 (if that). Upgrade to a bigger and better ata 66 or better and I think things will improve dramatically for you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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