Boost performance through Display and Virtual memory setting

[at0m]

Display

Right-click on desktop-> Display properties...
-> Background: choose none, it eats RAM on both main and video memory.
-> Screensavers: Turn off screensavers and other powersaving settings.
-> Web: disable web content, or at least don't put any page/link in there.
-> Effects: disable all except 'Show windows contents while dragging'. This will save read/write to video memory.
-> Settings: As low as possible, but higher than 256 colors. General rule: set to 16bit.
-> Settings-> Advanced...
-> Monitor: Set to the highest refresh rate. This will relieve your eyes. If you have two monitors, set one higher than the other. It prevents 'ghost lines' on the screens.
-> Troubleshooting: Max hardware acceleration, will relieve your CPU and hands tasks over to processor on your video card. Matrox cards: Disable Matrox Quickdesk and it's icon, Bus mastering off. If you install Dualhea d drivers form past september 2001, dualhead will give you 1 monitor with ie. 2048*768 instead of 2* 1024*768. This will make all your popus jump up in the center, no more maximizing on single monitor,... I reïnstalled older Matrox drivers.


Virtual Memory /Performance options

Win98: right-click 'My Computer'-> properties-> performance-> virtual memory-> see W2k for setting up
Win2k: right-click 'My Computer'-> properties-> Advanced-> performance options-> virtual memory
-Optimise performance for Background services.
-Set the virtual memory accordingly to your installed RAM. If you will never use all the RAM you have, disable Virtual Memory (only Win98). Else, set VM to 1-2.5. Most important is that you
set virtual memory to a fixed value, so that windows doesn't resize the file during heavy disk loads.

atomic.

ps- more to come on different settings!

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: atomic on 2001-11-12 14:39 ]</font>

[subhuman]

You shouldn't republish information without permission, and also, Norton is an EXCELLENT set of tools if you simply disable background/startup versions.

[bluelife]

Thank you for advising Atomic about this.
Atomic, no prob, stuff like this happens:)

The site is a lot of work, that is why we prefer visits to cut and paste.

And please link to the main site: http://www.bluelifeaudio.com and not the article if possible.

regards

blue

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<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: bluelife on 2001-11-11 13:22 ]</font>

[at0m]

hi bluelife,

welcome to planetz

atomic.