Greetings everyone. Well, like many, I have spent several hours trying to optimize gaming in Vista. My target games include Crysis, GRID, and COD4, primarily. I have a good machine with an E8500, 2gigs of ram, and a GX29800. Even still, I like to benefit from the eye candy as much as from frame rates whenever possible, which under higher resolutions continues to be a challenge, especially with Crysis, of course. I realize Crysis has been overhyped beyond compare, but truthfully, it?s my enjoyment of the game that drives my desire to improve its performance. GRID and COD4 also have the possibility of looking spectacular with settings cranked up ? so my motivation there is pretty understandable as well.
I have researched long and hard tweaks, mods, and other possible ways to optimize my settings. In the OS itself, I have used AlacrityPC to shut off and close out any and all unnecessary services. Many services were already shut off according to Black Viper?s ?safe settings? recommendations.
I am still not pleased. I believe that once the OS loads it initially boots into resident memory many unnecessary nasties that even when shut down and/or shut off leave residual traces of their existence that hamper performance?of course, this is merely speculation, but I don?t have the sense that games run as if just after a virgin install of the OS, nice and clean, when services and other apps are turned off. I am sure that it might also have to do with the five trillion device drivers whose loading can?t be prevented, but I digress.
My question is this, and I fear it may not be easily answered: I created a new profile in Vista, one where I am back to basics, one wherein I choose ?optimize for performance? in the My Computer properties, one wherein I am now thinking of ?managing? my games. Can I safely assume that the drivers, etc. from my other profile are not loading (in part or in whole) in association with the apps loaded on my machine (which were made available to ?all users? at the time of their install)? Can I assume that I am running in essentially a ?clean? environment best optimized for gaming? Because it sure appears this way at first glance. Last but not least, can I use Black Vipers ?bare bones? services in this profile (and shut off practically every service) and be sure that I am not screwing up my main profile in any way, shape, or form?
I am sorry for the long winded question, but in all of my research listening in on discussions on how to best optimize the OS for gaming I have never seen this possibility proposed?and I thought that if it worked, others might benefit from this approach as well.
I will begin running tests with FRAPS, but I was first curious if anyone else had thoughts or ideas they might like to share.
Bottom line - 1) will creating a "clean" second User Profile for just running games be advantageous 2) can settings i.e. Windows Services, etc. be edited on an individual User Profile basis...without screwing other things up (I have way too many app-related configurations in place under the primary User Profile).
Thanks in advance for any information you might have to offer.
I have researched long and hard tweaks, mods, and other possible ways to optimize my settings. In the OS itself, I have used AlacrityPC to shut off and close out any and all unnecessary services. Many services were already shut off according to Black Viper?s ?safe settings? recommendations.
I am still not pleased. I believe that once the OS loads it initially boots into resident memory many unnecessary nasties that even when shut down and/or shut off leave residual traces of their existence that hamper performance?of course, this is merely speculation, but I don?t have the sense that games run as if just after a virgin install of the OS, nice and clean, when services and other apps are turned off. I am sure that it might also have to do with the five trillion device drivers whose loading can?t be prevented, but I digress.
My question is this, and I fear it may not be easily answered: I created a new profile in Vista, one where I am back to basics, one wherein I choose ?optimize for performance? in the My Computer properties, one wherein I am now thinking of ?managing? my games. Can I safely assume that the drivers, etc. from my other profile are not loading (in part or in whole) in association with the apps loaded on my machine (which were made available to ?all users? at the time of their install)? Can I assume that I am running in essentially a ?clean? environment best optimized for gaming? Because it sure appears this way at first glance. Last but not least, can I use Black Vipers ?bare bones? services in this profile (and shut off practically every service) and be sure that I am not screwing up my main profile in any way, shape, or form?
I am sorry for the long winded question, but in all of my research listening in on discussions on how to best optimize the OS for gaming I have never seen this possibility proposed?and I thought that if it worked, others might benefit from this approach as well.
I will begin running tests with FRAPS, but I was first curious if anyone else had thoughts or ideas they might like to share.
Bottom line - 1) will creating a "clean" second User Profile for just running games be advantageous 2) can settings i.e. Windows Services, etc. be edited on an individual User Profile basis...without screwing other things up (I have way too many app-related configurations in place under the primary User Profile).
Thanks in advance for any information you might have to offer.
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