Increasing Gaming performance

[SubjectProphet]

A lot of programs out there say they can increase RAM performance, but 89% of them decrease performance or don't help. Some are even adware or spyware viruses. Some make it so your computer uses so much RAM, it destroys itself.

 

Guess what? There's a way to increase RAM usage without harming the computer or downloading worthless software/programs.

 

 

 

Open the program called "Run." If you cannot find it, W8 users must find the in the "All Apps" page in the Launch Board. Windows XP/Vista/7 users can either:

 

A) Open it from the search menu.

B) Head to the start menu properties and make it show Run.

 

 

Once opened, type in "system.ini" and you should see several things, some you don't understand and some you know. People who built their computer may have a hard time finding this file (sometimes the custom made computers have a different name for the file. You'll have to find it).

 

 

Change the xxxxxEnh to 3000Enh, and then add these two lines under it:

LoadLocalHigh=1

ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1

 

 

Save it and you're done! This opens up all your RAM for usage during the usage of apps.

 

 

 

 

 

Next up is power usage. It heavily impacts computer performance. Setting everything to low will decrease performance so much, even the best computers won't be able to run games on low without lag. All of it on high will increase performance so much, the low end computers can run most games on medium settings with either no lag or barely any lag. So, let's get some power up on the computer, shall we?

 

Increasing this may increase electric bill pricing, so be warned, it isn't cheap to do this. I recommend battery usage and charge when needed, this'll lower the electric bill pricing and conserve energy.

 

 

Open up the Control Panel. I have no idea how to do that on W8. Other Windows users know the drill. Please note that all of this is done on my W7 64bit OS, so the views are for W7 users.

 

Once opened, open up "Hardware and Sound" and you should see power options. You want to click on "Change Battery settings." A high performance option should be availible. Click that, and we'll make some tweaks.

 

Change the plan settings. There should be an option right by the plan for this. Then set everything to max. Then click on "Change Advanced Power Settings"

 

Change your graphic card settings to "High Performance" if it is not already.

 

Change the "System Cooling Policy" on both options to "Passive." This doesn't help performance, but it helps on the fans power. It reduces dust buildup and assists in everything else to help the fan.

 

 

Apply the settings and hit ok.

 

 

 

 

Next is the "Gamebooster" option. It helps performance by shutting down unneeded background programs. Some people, it helps, others it's worthless.

 

 

 

Head to the website (if you can't find it, find it in Google) and download it. Run it with the game you want to play.

 

 

Advanced System Care is an amazing option. It deletes unneeded folders hogging memory and destroying performance. A major problem in performance issues is the memory usage, and Gamebooster and Advanced System Care shut these programs down and deletes memory hogs.

 

 

 

 

Add more to help anyone who needs it. Make this a thread to help people get good gaming performance, even on low end PCs.

[ita]

Change the xxxxxEnh to 3000Enh, and then add these two lines under it:

LoadLocalHigh=1

ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1

 

This page claims otherwise (scroll down a bit).

[SubjectProphet]

Change the xxxxxEnh to 3000Enh, and then add these two lines under it:

LoadLocalHigh=1

ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1

 

This page claims otherwise (scroll down a bit).

 

It worked for me (OS W7)

[bben46]

More on system ram. - probably more than you wanted to know. :tongue:

 

First, no matter what you do, if you have a 32 bit version of windows you cannot use more than 4G of ram. This is a hard limit and cannot be changed. Then, a portion of that 4G ram MUST be allocated to run the Windows and a few other essential processes (essential means the computer cannot run without them) These take up nearly .5G of ram.

 

Leaving about 3.5G for all running programs. All running programs include any and all background processes, services and anything else running on the computer. Usually, unless you are running something like a background VOIP program, these will fit in that first .5G - along with the windows and other necessary stuff.

 

Now, we add the game - If the game does not have the LAA active (AKA 4G enabler), It can only use 2G of ram as that is a windows limitation. But it is a soft limit - meaning it can be changed. Then even with the LAA, it can only use what ram is left over from the stuff that was loaded - so, about 3.5G MAX with everything that is not required turned off. OR, if you have a 64bit system with MORE than 4G ram - 4G MAX

 

Now, The game - Currently all of the games we support are 32 bit games. Meaning they cannot use more than that 4G of ram anyway - no way, no how. Again, a hard limit.

 

Because of the design of the 32 bit game, it cannot see more than 4G no matter how much you have installed. This is not something that a modder can fix. The entire game would have to be recoded - Thousands of man hours of work with lots of places to make mistakes. The game companies would prefer to use those man hours to make a new game - hopefully this time for a 64 bit system - However, currently this is not likely, as if the game is made specifically to take advantage of 64 bits, it cannot work on a 32 bit system and they lose a large portion of customers who do still use a 32 bit computer.

 

Those people bragging about playing with 6, 8, 12 or 16G of ram are only fooling themselves. 5G on a 32 bit system will run the game using the maximum amount of ram possible - the rest is just sitting there. :confused:

 

Note: to get 5G you will probably have to install 6G anyway. And that extra ram can be used for more background programs - such as FRAPS or a resource monitoring program to check temperatures without stealing any from the game. Or even to keep a browser open for quick checks in the WIKI when you get stuck. :happy:

 

I am hoping to see a real 64 bit game in a few more years - where instead of a 4G limit we will have a 192G limit that can eventually be extended to around a 1TB (terrabyte) or 1000G ram limit. :thumbsup:

[davycrockett]

or you could just increase the size of your paging file (virtual memory), but with modern systems and fast memory thats kinda pointless when you consider that the more data that gets buffered into the ram actually slows down the processing the conservative approach is always best sacrificing stability for performance rarely works .

 

and with open world rpgs which are typically in the region of 8gb say holding all that data and accessing it in time is gonna be tricky a fast board and hds (6gbs) is a better road to wander

[FMod]

I don't think any open world RPG is actually capable of using 8GB of RAM. At best it's 4GB, but these games still don't load the full 4.

[davycrockett]

i meant the entire game , youd need a quantum core for that ! and i dont think they will be appearing on the shelves just yet maybe in another 50 years or so when people stop whining about the use of spinal fluid and stem cells .

[DarkKnigt88]

So I used the advice of the OP and it worked well for me other than still getting a few minor stutters here and there but I'm gonna safely say that's mainly because I still got uTorrent running in the background, so yeah... Thanks again for the help :)

[SubjectProphet]

Errr… why do you have utorrent running??

[Dan3345]

utorrent has other uses besides piracy.. I think.. I imagine one is you set up some sort of sharing system between friends or coworkers it could be useful for large projects, but then again there are more efficient ways of sharing data.. Edited May 30, 2012 by Dan3345