Optimisation for a games machine...

[Premgenius]

so wot happened is this discountnued?

[.Atlantis]

No, I found out CajunFox is making a version also, and seen as it's his idea I will discontinue my program and let him get the 15 minutes of fame.

[philmcneal]

why not work together to make tons of people happy?

[GrandMaster]

PLEASE CHECK YOUR MESSAGES. i have an important proposal/question for you!

[fukachu]

damn i want this, hope its out soon :)

[CajunFox]

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.

[.Atlantis]

Ok then, development will continue (Y). NyaR, if your sending message to me, I don't have it yet...

Thanks,

-Grant

[philmcneal]

any updates boys?

[CajunFox]

Encryption, progress update?

[.Atlantis]

Adding functions to remove and add different processes to kill... More complicated than it looks :\

[Oblivion]

Nice File :)

[Agent_of_Knowledge]

Any updates guys?

[CajunFox]

Waiting for encryption to update us all, I've managed to find some of my old sources, so I'm trying to re-create the server tool from scratch.

[.Atlantis]

I'm adding finishing touches and extra's to it, all will be released in due time ;)

[CajunFox]

Encryption, can you give us details on the features?

[Rip Kevlar]

Well it looks as though the little file doesn't work in XP Home edition eh ? Seems that there is no taskkill in this version.

[ranvier]

Hmm, apologies if this site is mentioned before.

BLKVIPER has a guide that tells u what services to turn off for different set of task.

Link: http://www.blkviper.com/Articles/OS/OSguides.htm

[GodsBrother]

Well it looks as though the little file doesn't work in XP Home edition eh ? Seems that there is no taskkill in this version.

neopwi :huh: He hasn't finished it yet, there probably will be in one of the later builds. :sleep: :blink: :happy: :(

[SpicyBeef]

Nice thread you people have in here.

Hoping encryption will release it soon.

[Rip Kevlar]

neopwi :huh: He hasn't finished it yet, there probably will be in one of the later builds. :sleep: :blink: :happy: :(

Okie dokie, Il keep my old fingies crossed then and see how it all turns out.

[darkmark327]

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.

[Inertia]

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

[darkmark327]

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

[CajunFox]

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.

[darkmark327]

The point is that if the program needs it, windows will do it itself, it requires no help