baritone Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 whats the best gaming os out there and what tweaks do you use to optimize Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renocivik Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 (edited) i would have to say XP is a good OS... what i think would be awesome if it was possible... o create a a startup option (F8).. such as Safe Mode... Safe mode with networking... yada yada... but have an option for "Gaming Mode" which doesnt load most of your startup options, doesnt load unneeded services... etc etc..... and whatever else possible to temporarily adjust for maximum gaming performance.... or a "Restart in Gaming Mode" option from XP Shutdown dialog... ive seen people talk about creating 57 meg xp installs for gaming... but... myself.. i NEED xp and all those features most of the time.. i am not a big gamer... so i usually just MSConfig - and disable all the garbage and reboot... Edited January 24, 2006 by renocivik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigeratiPrime Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 easy: XP. why? Drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baritone Posted January 25, 2006 Author Share Posted January 25, 2006 right now xp is hogging tons of memoryso i been using a .cmd file to kill services before the game starts helps abit but need more poweri might just put more memory512 isnt much anymore so ill put 1 gig or so Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 1gig is the recommended to get, so go for it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suryad Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 Agree with ripken. Anything below 1 gig is not worth it at all. Hell I am thinking of upgrading to 2 gigs. It is so much better to not have the game stutter because the hard drive is thrasthing trying to load up this and that when with > 1 gig of memory everything can be loaded up even for BF2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 suryad, your thinking? dont think, do it! i love 2 gigs of ram so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baritone Posted January 26, 2006 Author Share Posted January 26, 2006 ok ill buy another stick of 512my system right now is:giga-byte kt400xp 2600+ barton corenvidia 5200 128meg i know a worthless card but it was free going to overclock it and i put a good heavy duty fan to do itmy other video card was 7500 all in wonder 64meg but burn up bec of the mobosound blaster live 5.117 inch kds lcd160 gig 8m 7200 driveim going to save and build a amd fx60 dualcore system with raid0 and 1 or 2 gig memgoing to be about 2k to 3k wholesale by the time i build it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spazmire11 Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 currently id have to say microwinx!(man being a devloper ROCKS)its a patch over winxp btw,http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?act=ST&f=34&t=55003 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sn4k36 Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 I use a program called "Game Xp" it'll disable everything that i don't need such has windows theme, and alot of other useless servieces that ain't needed to run games and it can be download here:http://www.theorica.net/gamexp.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maleko Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 XP for sure...and defo MIN 1 gig, i wanna go for 2 gigs now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EchoNoise Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 (edited) Go for 4GB of ram, trust me, you'll notice the difference, lol !!and no... i'm not running windows, haha... i run fedora core 4, but i can still run games mainly call of duty, battlefield 2 and unreal tournament 2004 Edited January 26, 2006 by undeadsoldier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maleko Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 the only thing with 4 gigs is.....it costs a hell of a lot! lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted January 28, 2006 Share Posted January 28, 2006 well most almost all ppl say that 4gigs is just a waste and i agree. i bought 2x1 sticks so that if for some reason i ever need to upgrade to 4gigs, then i can. who knows what vista will bring, it could use a bunch of ram and you wont have enough for your games. but right now for XP 2 gigs is pretty much the max that you should have.but undeadsoldier has fedora core 4 so i have no clue how it is on that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILuvSnakMachines Posted January 28, 2006 Share Posted January 28, 2006 Someone on Gentoo Linux discovered that instead of loading up a desktop environment, you could do a little hacking and get UT2004 to load as your DE. No extra services; just the drivers and UT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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