Improving gameplay

[CTRifle]

Hey guys, I read a post I forget where and it said something about lag was made in PR by a bios setting. I have a nvidia 9500 windows 7 so i dont know if this would work for me or not.

Also i do have game booster 3 but is ther anything else that you guys recommend to make my pc faster ingame?

Thanks in advance and sorry if you get this alot

[LITOralis.nMd]

there are general windows 7 tricks you can do.

make sure your pagefile is set correctly.

defrag your hard drive.

run your gamebooster.

make sure your firewall/antivirus etc is set to 'gaming mode' if they have that option.

IF you give us more system specs we might see something else to help you out.

[Valleyforge3946]

Hey guys, I read a post I forget where and it said something about lag was made in PR by a bios setting. I have a nvidia 9500 windows 7 so i dont know if this would work for me or not.

Also i do have game booster 3 but is ther anything else that you guys recommend to make my pc faster ingame?

Thanks in advance and sorry if you get this alot

Check your video settings. To many times have i sen people with 9500 and 9400's trying to run the game at full resolution with like 8XAA or something like that. Games booster can help but beware of messing with required OS services as you can do more harm than good. Clean registry, get rid of programs you dont use, if you have the knowledge overclock your CPU if possible.

[samthegreat4]

there are general windows 7 tricks you can do.

make sure your pagefile is set correctly.

defrag your hard drive.

run your gamebooster.

make sure your firewall/antivirus etc is set to 'gaming mode' if they have that option.

IF you give us more system specs we might see something else to help you out.

I have 4GB DDR2 RAM. What is the correct pagefile size and on what partition should it be?

[LITOralis.nMd]

Regarding paging file:

with 4GB RAM

if you have one PHYSICAL hard drive (and it is not a SSD drive), you want to set pagefile to 1.5GB
if you have two or more PHYSICAL hard drives(that are not SSD drives), you want to set pagefile as such in this link: Stripping Page File across Multiple Hard drives

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regarding 4GB of RAM, if you have a 32 bit OS, (and ONLY if you have a 32 bit OS) you can follow the directions in this thread under the 2. /3GB Bootparameter / increaseuserva directions.

https://www.realitymod.com/forum/f27-pr ... b-ram.html

[CTRifle]

ok ill look into it

Nvidia 9500 as mentioned
Processor - Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5550 @ 1.83GHz (2 CPUs), ~1.8GHz (i know, fail)
mem 3072MB RAM

Page file (could you go into more detail?) - 2605MB used, 3533MB available

& windows 7

[MaSSive]

That will give the idea where to look for page file settings.

I have 4gb of ram and as you can see my page file is 6+ GB and is on separate physical drive. D and E partitions are my other hdd here.

If I set page file to anything lower than that I have frequent crashes with Arma2, so I advise you to leave it on that recommended value or increase it slightly since you dont have 64bit system and you have 1gb of ram unused practically.

[CTRifle]

Ah I see, so what should I set mine too? I dont understand if I put 1.5 or ####Mb..

[whatshisname55]

Sorry to go off on a tangent, but I'm suddenly curious.

Say you have a lot of memory, and you use some of it for a RAMdisk. How would moving the page file to the RAMdisk affect system performance?

[LITOralis.nMd]

Sorry to go off on a tangent, but I'm suddenly curious.

Say you have a lot of memory, and you use some of it for a RAMdisk. How would moving the page file to the RAMdisk affect system performance?

That's a good question.
The short answer:
in a 32 bit OS., it can drastically improve performance
in a 64 bit OS, it can hinder performance as the RamDisk software layer acts as a middle layer between the RAM and the Ramdrive.

If you have a 32 bit OS and over 12GB of RAM, post back again and I'll dig up an old thread on the forum about using a RamDisk to increase game performance.

[LITOralis.nMd]

Ah I see, so what should I set mine too? I dont understand if I put 1.5 or ####Mb..

IT is usually better to set a custom size to a pagefile.sys , you could probably set yours at 3 GB ( 3072 MB ) for both minimum and maximize.
What you want to be careful of is to NOT defrag your pagefile.
The built in defrag utility in windows 7 will not defrag a pagefile,
so do this:
set pagefile to custom size of 0.
click apply, reboot.
defrag using UltraDefrag - An Open Source Defragmenter
setpage file to 3072 MB
reboot.
open ultradefrag again and analyse your drive, make sure your pagefile is not fragmented.

[SnipingCoward]

Sorry to go off on a tangent, but I'm suddenly curious.

Say you have a lot of memory, and you use some of it for a RAMdisk. How would moving the page file to the RAMdisk affect system performance?

This would only have negative effects because of extra resources used to manage the RAMdisk. If you have a lot of RAM (12GB+) you should simply disable the pagefile to force windows to only use actual physical RAM.
The pagefile (virtual RAM) should only be used when the physical RAM is running out - however windows doesn't really comply to this 100% this is why turning off pagefile can mean performance increase.