Optimisation for a games machine...

By CajunFox
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Encryption, please continue making your prog, someone contacted me on MSN a while back and I told him that I had a private version that we use to use for Quake Arena servers, that I created into a server, the thing is I don't have access to the source files right now but I have the executable which won't be of use to anyone. So please continue. I'll give everyone a copy of mine once I get it, then hopefuly someone can improve it.

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Free RAM is wasted RAM; if a program needs more RAM it will just take whatever's needed from the file cache. There's no point in doing so preemptively.
I agrea with that, these "ram freeing" programs simply push system memory into a page file slowing the whole system and have a negative effect.

Still the striping down the system to its bare guts for gaming is a good move

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What one could do is throw that into a start/wait thing so that it executes that script, runs the program at high priority, then when the program exits it starts the services again

BLAH.bat
call killservices.bat
start /wait /high %1
call restartservices.bat

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Hey people, I've found my source files, so I'm working on a build which will hopefully allow a lot of customisation as well as strip XP down to its bare minimum.

Also just one other note, The free ram script works properly without forcing too much into virtual memory if the right number is entered. By this I mean, once you've turned off all the services and have unloaded binary from primary storage you only have x ammount in volatile ram, now the free mem script forces a small segment of this into paging without causing much of a slow down. Obviously if you force everything in there (by this I mean all the background processes) it's going to cause a slow down. The question is, just how much to force into paging, that's something that needs quite a lot of experiment.

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