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Win 7 gaming optimizations

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BTRY B 529th FA BN

BTRY B 529th FA BN

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What optimizations can be made to my OS to improve my PC gaming experience, thanks 🙂

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to stop the re-itterations of the mention of Black Vipers sight, lets move on to other topics.
 
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Frankly, not much. If you aren't doing anything stupid (e.g. running something in the background that's eating up large amounts of CPU time), then the OS is already performing as it should be.
 
BTRY B 529th FA BN said:
Wasn't there a web PG called 'black viper' er something that was about turning off services that weren't needed for gaming, ???

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Doesn't really help that much beyond startup/shutdown times and likely to cause problems when an app calls a service that is normally running on standard installations and can't find it, throwing a funky error message. If the services isn't called much it's going to be paged out to disk by the OS, anyway.
 
BTRY B 529th FA BN said:
Wasn't there a web PG called 'black viper' er something that was about turning off services that weren't needed for gaming, ???

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Yes and his site is laughed at by almost everyone that understands what all of those services do and how Windows handles things like memory management.
 
Nothing wrong with the black viper site and the suggestions there. If someone took the time to figure out what works and doesn't work, without me having to look at each individual dependency, that saves me time.

I run one step above the barebones and other than having to go back and reenable maybe print spooler, I've had zero issues.
 
Nothinman said:
Yes and his site is laughed at by almost everyone that understands what all of those services do and how Windows handles things like memory management.
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Agreed. This isn't 1993, Windows doesn't need its hand held to get anything done.
 
So if not so much for Windows, and thank you chimaxi83 for your input 🙂, what other areas have you people optimized for your online MP gaming experience?
 
chimaxi83 said:
Nothing wrong with the black viper site and the suggestions there. If someone took the time to figure out what works and doesn't work, without me having to look at each individual dependency, that saves me time.

I run one step above the barebones and other than having to go back and reenable maybe print spooler, I've had zero issues.
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The issue is that the benefits that you get from disabling a few services are virtually nil and the risks to losing some feature that you use or might use later on are very high. So even if you do it all right and don't break anything, you've still wasted time achieving nothing.
 
And another thing about that site, it just sounds mean, I mean why Black, why not Purple or Pink or something?
 
yinan said:
Get better faster storage/cpu/gpu. The tweaks probably save a few MB of memory at best.
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I'd add to this to also not skimp on your networking hardware. If you really care about MP gaming - and by that I assume you specifically mean lag - then be sure you're using a good modem, a good router, and a good NIC (i.e. anything but Realtek). That will do more for you than any Windows optimizations.
 
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