Improve Gaming Performance With One Click

[blackbird]

Thanks for the link, is it definitely confirmed as working for Vista with the SP2 compatibility option on? I'm wary of downloading it without some 3rd party verification first.

according to ahmed_p800 it dos work using sp2 compatability

[Harleyquin07]

Not that I have anything against that particular user but could someone else try the program with a Vista machine? It helps to have more than one person verifying whether or not the program works.

[Shadowfate]

Not that I have anything against that particular user but could someone else try the program with a Vista machine? It helps to have more than one person verifying whether or not the program works.

Tried it, it works.

i followed the guide( also i opened the program as an administrator for the setup part to work) and it did what this guide has shown. all the unwanted things were stopped.

[Harleyquin07]

Thanks, I think I'll give this a whirl as well.

[MegaBUD]

What does fresh install have anything to do with this? But I also agree about how useless this is...

The normal PC user have an antivirus and at least an antispyware... and most of them took a US antivirus like norton...

So with a fresh install, they wont have those thing and the virus spyware already installed will be removed and those crappy software installed by default with a preinstalled OS (HP or Dell for example)...

Yes a fresh install is needed for 85% of the PC users population!

[Scrtsquirrel]

To start, I know very little about computers. Anyway, I tried to set this up, but after pressing go I was unable to connect to my wireless internet. Is there a default option I can turn off to allow for a connection or is this only meant to improve offline gaming? Once I pressed stop, the wireless connection came back immediately.

Little FYI if it helps, I'm running XP on an Inspiron 6000 1.6 GHz with 1.5 GB of RAM (came with 0.5 I added 1.0)

Thanks for any help you can give.

[odin243]

Make sure the Wireless Zero Configuration service isn't highlighted.

[theCaze]

wow, this is really cool, does it work totally the same with Vista?

[Jalf]

If all the services are idle then why do people go about disabling them and following all those guides....

For the same reason people run RAID 0, and run those stupid RAM defraggers.
Do you need to ask? If I had to guess, it'd be because people see forum posts with titles like "Improve Gaming Performance With One Click", and then they assume that the poster knows his stuff, and has actually *verified* that it makes a difference. Which is of course the case, right? You're not abusing the trust of those poor newbies, are you?

Tell me, do you know of any benchmarks showing this making a difference?

The idle services still take up RAM. It could definitely make a difference in games where load time is the main problem, like Oblvion or similar.

No they don't. Not if they services don't actually do anything. Then they get pushed to the pagefile when RAM is tight.

There are a few (*very* few) borderline cases where doing this might make a small difference. But 99.9% of the time when people do stuff like this, it makes zero detectable difference.

[unknown555525]

hMM.. I tested it out.. All it seemed to do for me is disable my internet, disable my sound card, disable most critical features a game needs, and caused UT3 to pause a few times during gameplay, which has never happened before.. Framerates were unchanged.

So, in my own personal experience of just running it 1 minute ago, all it does is make your gaming experience worse, and a hassle.

Btw, that's on Vista using XP SP2 compatability.