ehh, thats definately debatable...
it really depends on what goes on your PC. Back in the day I used to get these demo discs in the mail from PC mags, that were loaded with games. after intstalling 50-100 games in a month or 2, then trying to unistall all of them, things would be a little quirky. a quick reformat will clear up all those protely programed apps that dont have good uninstallers.
I keep all my drivers and apps on discs in a folder so i can quickly handle a reformat. ( i also have extra hard drives on my home network that i can use for back-ups )
If your asystem is running fine then, you obviously dont need to go to the extremes (format) but if you have weird stuff going on, and have ensured all your drivers are brand spanking new, then the ol' reformat is a really good option. just make sure you take the time to back up all your data first, and
dont forget the most important step (which is commonly forgotten)
back up all your drivers to disc so you have them all ready when you erase all.
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back to the thread :
make sure you do have some clean drivers for your vid card.
monitor your CPU usage when your at youer windows desktop too, if it's higher than 2-10% your got something running in the background that is slowing you down.
see what other apps are running when you're trying to play the game, they could be slowing you too (norton can kill frame rate sometimes
). if that taskbar has a whole bunch of crap in it you should probly work on closing them out, so they dont autostart on re-boot.
if you still cant get anything to run smooth you probly need to try the clean sweep (reformat). it will make a big difference in for Pc is crudded up with junk.
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oh yeah, defrag: this shouldnt affect your ingame performance too much, since your PC shouldnt be "swapping to disc" while playing the game, jsut on level changes and what not.
fragmented drives will definately slow windows a bit, but likely not the problem here
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