Best software for gaming.....?Post Date: 2010-01-12 |
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Bullseye 
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 Topic: Best software for gaming.....?Posted: 12 Jan 2010 at 4:05am |
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Hey what do you guys think is better for gaming: Vista, Windows 7 or XP?
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Kyu
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Posted: 12 Jan 2010 at 3:19pm |
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win7 getting my vote.
even though I havn't upgraded yet.
pc1 still on xp pro
pc2 still on vista ult
pc3 still on xp pro
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justin.kerr
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Posted: 12 Jan 2010 at 3:41pm |
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windows 7 by far
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Bullseye
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Posted: 12 Jan 2010 at 4:01pm |
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What made you say so?
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justin.kerr
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Posted: 12 Jan 2010 at 4:05pm |
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Because I have benched many, many games on different operating software, and windows 7 is the winner, plus it has so many other advantages, it makes no sense to even think about getting a different OS.
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Kyu
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Posted: 12 Jan 2010 at 4:13pm |
+1
so far, what i've read, All say the same thing.
Whatever microsoft messed up on since 98 with all the bug issues and etc.
win7 came out correct compared to past versions.
that and justin knows what he's talking about
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e06028
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Posted: 12 Jan 2010 at 6:58pm |
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I just switched back to Vista after having many problems with gaming in Windows 7 and problems with drivers and other things. For COD 4 I always got an error in the game and got booted out many many times. Now that I have Vista back all of my problems are gone.
When I had windows 7 installed I could not open computer and click on a hard drive without the system freezing and causing a forced shut down. Many other problems with Windows 7 that I will not waste your time listing them all. I can't believe that Windows 7 does not cause problems for other people. I will wait for Service Pack 1 or 2 before it gets back on my machine. I am glad to hear that everyone loves Windows 7 but I fear all is not what it seems to be. Edited by e06028 - 12 Jan 2010 at 7:01pm |
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Kyu
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Posted: 12 Jan 2010 at 7:27pm |
Yeah not everyone is having a good thing going with Win7,
You're one of the unlucky few, Most of the time it has to do with driver issues that's not working with win7 |
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justin.kerr
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Posted: 12 Jan 2010 at 8:24pm |
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I have been running it for almost a year, and no issues.. lol none.. for the apps that I use.
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Bullseye
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Posted: 12 Jan 2010 at 11:59pm |
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Wow I thought it would be good.
But Vista was horrible for games because it used up half of your RAM |
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DST4ME
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Posted: 13 Jan 2010 at 3:21am |
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disable superfetch and your ram will go back to being free.
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Bullseye
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Posted: 13 Jan 2010 at 2:29pm |
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How do you disable it???
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DST4ME
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Posted: 13 Jan 2010 at 3:25pm |
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1. Click the Start orb and type REGEDIT in the Start Search area.
2. Open the Registry Editor. 3. Click the plus sign next to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE then SYSTEM then CurrentControlSet then Control then Session Manager then MemoryManagement then click PrefetchParameters 4. On the right side, double-click on EnableSuperfetch 5. Give it one of the following values: 0 to disable Superfetch 1 to enable prefetching when program is launched 2 to enable boot prefetching 3 to enable prefectching of everything Click OK. |
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StevieBoy88
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Posted: 27 Jan 2010 at 3:12am |
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Hey DST,
I'm just wondering what does Superfetch or such does on the computer? |
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DST4ME
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Posted: 27 Jan 2010 at 1:00pm |
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it tries to figure out what apps and etc you are going to use and loads up resources for it ahead of time, IMO nothing that will make a big difference, I like mine off.
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Cheesehole
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Posted: 04 Feb 2010 at 10:36am |
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DSTME! I swear im gonna swim all the way to the Stats and kiss you if what you write about "disabling superfetch" works!
well, maybe not, its pretty f....ing far from Denmark to the states... and supposedly the water is a fairly cold this time a year
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Life is too short for sh*tty experiences
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DST4ME
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Posted: 04 Feb 2010 at 3:15pm |
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if by "works!" you mean it will disable the loading of the resources and you that you will see more available free memory in task manager, then yes it works
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