Some tips to improve your PC performance for the sim

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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.