Tweaking?

[Boom-Town-Rrrrat]

hey, im new to all this stuff....but im really into PC gaming and wanna play all the newest games (im playing far cry now!)....

could any of you tell me if there is any way XP can be tweaked for better performance in games? thanks!

and i know this is the OS section of the forum, but does any1 know any other things i can tweak for better in game performance?


here's my system :
2.53GHz P4 (widows XP Home)
512MB RAM
Radeon 9800Pro
SB Audigy LS
80GB HDD


thanks!

[Steve R Jones]

Should take a couple of days to read through this site:

http://www.tweakxp.com/

[ShawnD1]

Also pickup a copy of Diskeeper. It's not a free program but having a well defragged hard drive will do wonders for your performance. Instead of defragging on a scheduled basis, it defrags when the hard drive gets fragmented. If you use Kazaa or Emule, it will defrag upwards of 3 times per day.

If that's not your style, you can schedule regular defragging. Go to scheduled tasks and schedule "defrag <drive letter>".

[HeddaLora]

I second the motion on Diskeeper defrag. I've loved it ever since I got it several months back.

Hedda Lora

[washe]

John Propeth taught me this site....

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

I use safe config...