How to Optimize Vista

[p0lar_bear]

Fixed framerates are pretty much needed for Halo, simply because there's no code to interpolate from frame to frame on higher framerates. Your camera is moving at 60 FPS, yet objects animate at 30 FPS. It really disorients me.

[jahrain]

Because Windows always used all available RAM regardless of how much was used by programs in general.

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum...fm/756806.html

It prefetches what it assumes you'll eventually be using so you don't need to access it from the hard drive. Why not? When it needs the RAM it will kick the extraneous off, if it doesn't need the RAM it'll potentially speed up later if it just so happened to prefetch something that ended up being used. As an example, if you use Firefox daily... it might dump firefox into your RAM if it has extra space -- assuming at SOME point you'll turn firefox on and it won't need to even look at the harddrive.

Then this is probably what the cause of my problems are. Is there anyway to disable this so it works like XP? I don't want my operating system making 'assumptions' about which programs I will choose to use and eating up all my ram just to save it for what it thinks I might want to use. I use different applications constantly and never really have any main pattern in usages. One day I will be using nothing but photoshop, the next I will be playing a game, the next I will be using some 3d applications, etc. No wonder it gives me so much trouble because I'm not the typical average user it 'assumes' I am.

It might not be *laggy*, it might just be a hiccupy gamespeed. Try turning on Vsync.

How do I turn on this vsync? There is no option in the game to do it that I know of. If you tell me, I will be very happy. Btw, if your going to say turn it on in the driver settings then... grrr... *Goes back to original problem about crap drivers that don't allow this and that to be done in vista*.

[Timo]

From what was in the link Phopo posted, open up regedit.exe and go to this directory:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentC­ontrolSet\ Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters\Enab­leSuperfet ch

A value of 1 prefetches boot processes, 2 prefetches applications, 3 is for both and 0 to disable it.

[Phopojijo]

Then this is probably what the cause of my problems are. Is there anyway to disable this so it works like XP? I don't want my operating system making 'assumptions' about which programs I will choose to use and eating up all my ram just to save it for what it thinks I might want to use. I use different applications constantly and never really have any main pattern in usages. One day I will be using nothing but photoshop, the next I will be playing a game, the next I will be using some 3d applications, etc. No wonder it gives me so much trouble because I'm not the typical average user it 'assumes' I am.

It did it in XP too, it just does it more tenaciously since the advent of "Readyboost" technology... basically also allowing you to prefetch to USBkeys and such. Useful for solid state hybrid drives so they don't use a lot of space.

But to answer your question -- C:\windows\prefetch\ delete its contents with extreme prejudice.

Then, after you're done that: Regedit!

HKey_Local_Machine\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters

Change the value of EnablePrefetcher and EnableSuperfetch to 0 (from 3).

This all being said -- this is also what XP did... just XP had a much smaller code to do this... so you may find loading programs more laggy than XP. But you got the option -- quicker loads or more top end performance... your choice. Even though I don't find that the used memory is all that much of a strain since Windows releases memory a LOT better than it used to (back in the 16/32 days of Win95-ME)

How do I turn on this vsync? There is no option in the game to do it that I know of. If you tell me, I will be very happy. Btw, if your going to say turn it on in the driver settings then... grrr... *Goes back to original problem about crap drivers that don't allow this and that to be done in vista*.

Yea the drivers are the only way to do it... again, emailed Hired Gun a couple of times asking for 30FPS mode.

[jahrain]

It did it in XP too, it just does it more tenaciously since the advent of "Readyboost" technology... basically also allowing you to prefetch to USBkeys and such. Useful for solid state hybrid drives so they don't use a lot of space.

But to answer your question -- C:\windows\prefetch\ delete its contents with extreme prejudice.

Then, after you're done that: Regedit!

HKey_Local_Machine\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters

Change the value of EnablePrefetcher and EnableSuperfetch to 0 (from 3).

This all being said -- this is also what XP did... just XP had a much smaller code to do this... so you may find loading programs more laggy than XP. But you got the option -- quicker loads or more top end performance... your choice. Even though I don't find that the used memory is all that much of a strain since Windows releases memory a LOT better than it used to (back in the 16/32 days of Win95-ME)

So I can't just set it to "work like XP" mode? Damn...

[Phopojijo]

So I can't just set it to "work like XP" mode? Damn...

Well if you want to be cynical -- XP never actually worked a single way. It changed a couple times with each service pack release.

[jahrain]

With SP2 then as that was the version of XP I used. I wish july would hurry up and come so I can get that h2v XP compatibility kit so I can go back to XP. I don't like vista, and it clearly does not like me.

[Zemious]

I don't understand why people are having so much trouble with Vista.

Halo PC/CE doesn't work right for me at all.
Its the text issue, I can't type in it. I thought there was some sort of error with it so I installed that CMT text console plugin and it completly fucked Halo CE up. When loading into Halo, I don't even get into the menu screen although I can hear my mouse "hover over links" noise when I hover over them.
I've uninstalled Halo PC/CE atleast 3 times, I had it installed on an x86 part.
I then installed it in a regular program files which wasn't x86.

Recently, I installed Diablo 2.
It doesn't work either, it hangs inside screens. Before I could even start the game up, I had to download the 1.11b patch.

[Phopojijo]

With SP2 then as that was the version of XP I used. I wish july would hurry up and come so I can get that h2v XP compatibility kit so I can go back to XP. I don't like vista, and it clearly does not like me.

Service Pack 2 had prefetch but not superprefetch (well, it had it, but it was disabled). If that doesn't work you may want to just have windows just prefetch system services, not EVERY program. Its a registry value of 1

So:

Prefetch: 1
SuperPrefetch: 0

Instead of...

Prefetch: 3
SuperPrefetch: 3

like it is now...

[Veegie]

jahrain sucks at computers