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31st January 2005, 02:56
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|  Switching between WinXP & Game's I got a strange problem. Most of the time i'm playing America's Army. We use a ventrillo voice server. If i try to switch to windows/msn/or whatever program, it cost me somtimes +12/16 seconds to return to the game. Sometimes its only 5 seconds! If i ask my m8's on the same server to check their reconnecting speed on the same server, most of the times they are doing it pretty much faster! Now i kow from experience, that no matter what you do, the Americas Army game uses all the procc and ram it can get. If i'm playing UT2004 online, or HL2 Single player, and i'll try to switch to Xp window with the windows key to check ventrillo voice server,msn, etc. and back to game, its takes me not more then +-5 secs.If I do that in the Americas Army game, it took me to many time to switch back to the game. plz some advice. |
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31st January 2005, 05:22
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| have you tried other ways like alt+tab or ctrl+alt+del ? |
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1st February 2005, 00:06
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| Alt+tab is working, but switching time is still very long (15 sec sometimes)  |
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1st February 2005, 00:08
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| Madshrimp  Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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 | amount of RAM? HDD? fragmentation status? Location swapfile? this is a swapfile/memory size issue, and HDD fragmentation all rolled into one
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1st February 2005, 00:23
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Hdd: 60Gig WD 8mb buffer Fragmentation status: ok, i do it very much (defragmentation) Location swapfile: ???? -> where can i find that/check , and what can i do about it ? | |
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1st February 2005, 00:25
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| Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| ideal would be to either put it on a seperate drive, or at least a different partition then the system drive. the ultimate virtual memory tweaking guide: http://www.rojakpot.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=143 it will speed up your overal system usage a lot if done right.
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1st February 2005, 07:43
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| ok thx. I'm gonna give it a try. Later this week I'm gonna build me a Raid-0 setup. |
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1st February 2005, 09:58
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But isn't there a shorter guide  this one is just too long . | |
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1st February 2005, 10:00
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| Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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1st February 2005, 10:13
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  I'll read the guide :grum: | |
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