Disabling uneeded stuff in W2K help.

[nitrousninja]

When I check performance and the monitor comes up there are 14 "processes" in the "Windows Task Manager" Are they the reason I'm getting slower performance than others with comperable systems? I get 26fps in the Q3 demo127 at 1024x768 everything maxed w\o sound. I know my system can do better than that. What do I have to have to keep W2K running? I'm only using it for inernet(w\gaming) and general gaming. The processes are: System Idle Process,System,smss.exe,winlogon.exe,csrss.exe,services.exe,lsass.exe,regsvc.exe,svchost.exe,svchost.exe,WinMgmt.exe,Explorer.exe,taskmgr.exe,IEXPLORE.EXE Mem Usage: 60576K/1082252 CPU Usage: 0%
What can I do to increase performance? All the games I play in W2K look like they should but are all extrordinarily slow which to me means that something is holding them back. In UT I can play in W98SE at 1600x1200 everything maxed at 70fps but 40fps at 800x600 in W2K! What gives!? Thanks in advance,Matt BTW I have my administrative profile in the "power user" group if that helps.

 

[TBP]

You can kill the last two processes but it won't do you any good (they are just for task manager and internet explorer).

A possible solution might be an updated Win2K video driver.

 

[AndyHui]

What you have listed is fine. taskmgr.exe is the program that you are using to view the processes....obviously that can be shutdown and will be gone as soon as you exit the Task Manager.

IExplore.exe is Internet Explorer.....again that will disappear when you close it.

Most of everything else that you have there seems normal.

If you want to increase disk performance, you can disable the Disk IO logging by opening a Command Prompt and typing diskperf -n. This significantly reduces disk access overhead. There are probably some other services that you can disable, but unless you know exactly what each does, then it's not a good idea to mess with them. In my experience, disabling some of those services doesn't make much difference to the performance.

As TBP says, you ought to update your video card driver if a newer one is available.

 

[nitrousninja]

I've tried four different W2K Radeon drivers and right now I'm using the latest BETA which is only a couple weeks old 8-(

 

[igiveup]

Check out the article about win 2k vs. win 98 and the drivers. ATI is just sucking at making drivers for 2000. All there is to it.

http://www1.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1422

Sorry.

 

[ddiccico]

if your cpu usage is close to zero, i don't think killing any processes is going to help (unless you're running out of memory). what you listed is pretty much run of the mill stuff anyways.
it's probably the radeon drivers. a lot of people get crappy 2k performance with them.

 

[Gilles]

You can visit those sites. They provide nice optimisation tricks
for Win2K:

www.3dspotlight.com
www.rojakpot.com
www.3drage.com
www.tweaktown.com

Again, removing useless services might help gaining some memory,
but won't improve performances much. Hopefully, Win2K manage its
services very well so that their CPU usage is minimal (unnoticable).

If your system is slow, that also might be because you're using
ATA100 drives without having applied the Hotfix. Win2K is not
able to manage ATA100, as it has been discussed here many times.

You can improve disk/paging performance by using a good defragmenter
that can defrag the pagefile. I'm personnaly using Diskeeper and it
reduces booting time.

Gilles