Some tips to improve your PC performance for the sim

[SIDWULF]

Well being a computer technician for a few years I have come to realize Softwear tweaks should be avoided as Windows at default works the best, Windows is already optimized it is unnecessary to fiddle with Windows settings. Things like Game booster or disabling running processors is useless as at idle your computer is essentially using %0 processing power anyways, or should be. People tend to go overboard messing with settings in Windows, it's pointless. This thread thankfully dosen't recommend to much of this kind of stuff.

And as far as overclocking goes I am terrified of instability, component failure, artifacts, or not knowing why games are crashing other then poor coding. So i don't overclock.

[Timberwolf]

The post seems to be for someone that knows alittle more about computers and it's software.. If your not that good with computers don't mess with your bios or window running programs or overclock anything unless you know what your doing These things will mess up your computer to the point you will need to have it repaired if you mess up

The first thing i would do is know what your computer is and whats installed There are some programs you can use to do this (Speccy) is one of them

Another thing to speed up your computer is close unwanted processes like start up programs (anti virus ) ( Media players ) etc non windows items

Memory cleaners, Histroy sweep, Defrag, Clean junk files, windows updates driver updates, Connection speed test, Temp check,

Many of theses help your computer, speed it up and are eazy to do

I use a free program to do alot of these (Advance system care) If you can't remember the last time you did all these things to your computer .. Google the program I have it in my computer for 1 year now and helped many friends use it on theres

[CWMV]

Overclocking is too easy with an ASUS motherboard with UEFI.
Hell I pushed one button and the PC ran the overclocking program for a mild 4.4ghz. Has run flawlessly for months now and with a Zalman fan has never breached 50* even with CoD running flat out.
Also, I know many guys who have used gamebooster 3 with great success. Reported everything from greatly increased frame rates to the near elimination of stutters. So it seems worth it.
As for windows being the be all end all...have to disagree. IE9 handles like a Yugo, that is not very well at all.
firefox for me!

[SIDWULF]

Originally Posted by CWMV

Overclocking is too easy with an ASUS motherboard with UEFI.
Hell I pushed one button and the PC ran the overclocking program for a mild 4.4ghz. Has run flawlessly for months now and with a Zalman fan has never breached 50* even with CoD running flat out.
Also, I know many guys who have used gamebooster 3 with great success. Reported everything from greatly increased frame rates to the near elimination of stutters. So it seems worth it.
As for windows being the be all end all...have to disagree. IE9 handles like a Yugo, that is not very well at all.
firefox for me!

I don't know Windows 7 is the best Windows has ever been and IE9 has a very large amount of options and is an intergrated part of the windows shell so more compatability and as i mentioned the highly effective smartscreen filter.

I switched from Firefox back to IE 9 when it came out because i saw no reason anymore to use an alternate browser.

IE9 = win

[CWMV]

That's one of the reasons I stuck with firefox.
IE9 has far, FAR too much going on that I will never, ever need.
And its just not as user friendly as firefox. Sorry, but at this point I'm not going to learn a new browser when the old standby is as effective as always.
And after a week with IE9 I just wasn't impressed.
Firefox = easier = win +1

[NLS61]

Originally Posted by CWMV

Overclocking is too easy with an ASUS motherboard with UEFI.
Hell I pushed one button and the PC ran the overclocking program for a mild 4.4ghz. Has run flawlessly for months now and with a Zalman fan has never breached 50* even with CoD running flat out.
Also, I know many guys who have used gamebooster 3 with great success. Reported everything from greatly increased frame rates to the near elimination of stutters. So it seems worth it.
As for windows being the be all end all...have to disagree. IE9 handles like a Yugo, that is not very well at all.
firefox for me!

Please watch you core Voltage can be set way higher then you want.
This can seriously harm you processor over time especially with Intel i5 2500K and i7 2600K.
manual overclocking is much better also gives better results
Watch from 7:55
Or visit http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1578110


Cheers,

Niels

[CWMV]

Originally Posted by NLS61

Please watch you core Voltage can be set way higher then you want.
This can seriously harm you processor over time especially with Intel i5 2500K and i7 2600K.
manual overclocking is much better also gives better results
Watch from 7:55
Or visit http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1578110


Cheers,

Niels

Thanks. Real quick what is the suggested max?

[KeBrAnTo]

Originally Posted by SIDWULF

Well being a computer technician for a few years I have come to realize Softwear tweaks should be avoided as Windows at default works the best, Windows is already optimized it is unnecessary to fiddle with Windows settings. Things like Game booster or disabling running processors is useless as at idle your computer is essentially using %0 processing power anyways, or should be. People tend to go overboard messing with settings in Windows, it's pointless. This thread thankfully dosen't recommend to much of this kind of stuff.

And as far as overclocking goes I am terrified of instability, component failure, artifacts, or not knowing why games are crashing other then poor coding. So i don't overclock.

Well mate, I've being working as computer technician for 16 years, now I'm a network administrator, dealt with laptops, workstations, servers, Windows, Unix, all kind of software & hadware ... all my life.

I'm sure that we could be all day discussing about our C.V's too I guess and I don't know much about what you're experience is on this business, but I'm sorry I must say Windows OS is an operating system developed to make things easier to the common of the mortals working with a PC, those who don't know much about all the things that lay beneath turning on and off the computer, and, if you want to make this OS fit your own particular requirements as an advanced user, it is mandatory that you must go an step further away than the "default" settings of the OS, precisely in order to fit that OS to your own requirements.

You're right when you say there's not much about third party software ment to improve performance, in fact, there isn't any on my post. This is pure BIOS, OS and GPU low level tweaking, that's all.

I don't agree with your statement regarding overclocking, no wonder you're terrified with the idea, I would be terrified too about trying to fix my TV flat screen wielding chips or something like that because I wouldn't have a clue about what I'd be doing, so that denotes me lack of knowledge about that particular subject.

Overclocking, if you do it based on some knowledge about what are you doing is the best thing to get the max from your system, default values are just that, defaults.

Obviously you need to know about that matter and have the proper hardware, If someone doesn't, I wouldn't recommend it either, I'm just telling the people they should get at least informed and learn about advantages and disadvantages of it, and how to put it in place on their system, that's all.

CWMV is right when he says ASUS motherboards are really easy to overclock, they're almost automatic doing so, In fact they're preparared to overclock from factory and it is supported by ASUS.

Enough said. This is my advice to the people who want their PC performance improved, you can give it a try or not, but please let the rest of the users decide by themselves if they want to give it a try or not.