Sorry if this has been asked in the past but I recently upgraded to
WinME from Win98 after I got a bad virus and reformatted my harddrive.
N4 worked great under Win98 but it seems to be struggling under WinME.
My framerates just crawl at startup of a race but then get better as the
race progresses, but then become brutal again about 5 minutes later.
I'm using the same config I used under 98 (OpenGL as well as Tom's
tweaks) but the gameplay is way worse now. I have an Athlon 1Ghz T-bird
board with a GeForce2 MX 32 meg card and 384 megs of RAM. Again, all
worked fine under 98 but are terrible using ME. Is there conflicts with
Athlon boards/GeForce cards and WinME I should know about that is
causing this poor gameplay? Appreciate any help.
"B_English" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Ian P posted this some time ago - this may be of help to you (or, it might
be competely wide of the mark, but it cured everything for me)
This was posted here a while back with regards to Windows ME.
It may help ;)
1. Disable System Restore.
Open Control Panel -> System -> Performance Tab -> File System - >
Troubleshooting area -> Disable System Restore
(While you are in this window click on the Floppy Disk tab and uncheck the
box so the system doesn't check for a NEW floppy drive every time it
starts.)
~~
2. Uninstall Pc Health.
Start / Run "\windows\pchealth\support\pchsetup /uninstall"
~~
3. Turn off Automatic Updating. (This will hog your modem for 30
mins every day when you first go on line if you don't turn it off.)
Start / Settings / Taskbar / Advanced
then check Expand Control Panel and close and go to
Start / Settings / Control Panel / Automatic Updates and turn OFF Automatic
Updating
~~
4. Use ram memory rather than the swap file. (The system needs OVER 64 megs
of ram.)
Start / Search / Files type and enter: "system.ini" then click on it
and open it in Notepad and add this line after [386Enh] (without quotes)
"ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1"
~~
5. Set file system to cache about 20 times higher than its default
setting. Copy and paste these lines to Notepad and name the file
MaxCached.reg then click on MaxCached.reg from Windows Explorer and say
Yes you want to add that information to your registry. (You must
set Notepad to "all files" when you save it or it will save as text.)
-------------------------------- copy
below ----------------------------------
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\FS Templates]
@="Max Cache"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\FS
Templates\Max Cache]
@="Max Cache"
"NameCache"=hex:00,18,00,00
"PathCache"=hex:80,00,00,00
------------------------------- to
above ------------------------------------
~~
6. Disable these settings in the start menu.
Start / Run type and enter: "Msconfig"
then click on Startup and UNCHECK PcHealth, StateMgr, SchedulingAgent
and Taskmon Then allow the system to reboot so all these changes will
take effect.
~~
7. Run Windows Explorer and click on Tools / Folder Options / View and
select "Show hidden files and folders" then browse the c: drive and
delete the _Restore folder. Hold your shift key so it doesn't move it
to the recycle bin while you press del. This folder can have hundreds of
megs of temp files if you have been running ME for a while with the
system Restore and PC Health on. If you get an error message saying
there is a sharing violation you haven't successfully turned off Pc
Health and Restore. The _Restore folder should NOT appears again in the
future (unless you update a key Microsoft program like IE).
~~
8. See if anything unnecessary is running all the time.
Press CTRL + ALT + DEl at the same time, after you have first booted
up and see what programs are loaded. You may find several programs running
that don't need to run all the time. Most of them, if actually needed, can
be loaded from the Start / Programs menu.
~~
9. Don't let windows run HTA, SHS and VBS Script automatically.
Those file associations allow viruses to infect your system. Open
Windows Explorer and click Tools / Folder Options / File Types and
delete HTA, SHS and VBSscript. It is very unlikely a normal PC user
would need those file associations turned on.
~~
10. Disable "Automatic check for Windows Explorer updates"
From the IE "Tools" menu click on "Internet Options" then go to
"Advanced" and uncheck the 4th box.
Quoted text (12 lines)
> Sorry if this has been asked in the past but I recently upgraded to > WinME from Win98 after I got a bad virus and reformatted my harddrive. > N4 worked great under Win98 but it seems to be struggling under WinME. > My framerates just crawl at startup of a race but then get better as the > race progresses, but then become brutal again about 5 minutes later. > I'm using the same config I used under 98 (OpenGL as well as Tom's > tweaks) but the gameplay is way worse now. I have an Athlon 1Ghz T-bird > board with a GeForce2 MX 32 meg card and 384 megs of RAM. Again, all > worked fine under 98 but are terrible using ME. Is there conflicts with > Athlon boards/GeForce cards and WinME I should know about that is > causing this poor gameplay? Appreciate any help. >
"B_English" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I have a 1.4 TBird, 256mb ram, a geforce2mx and run WinME. I have a 350watt
PSU if that makes any difference.
Works fine- sears point is a bit choppy in places, but the speedways are all
40-60fps regular. Have you switched off "system restore" nothing kills your
pc faster than windows backing up the registry etc every five minutes.
On one install on winMe I had, it actually filled up the hard disk to 0 free
space with "restore" files.
You'll find the option in the performance tab (right click my computer-
choose properties?)
cheers
John
Quoted text (12 lines)
> Sorry if this has been asked in the past but I recently upgraded to > WinME from Win98 after I got a bad virus and reformatted my harddrive. > N4 worked great under Win98 but it seems to be struggling under WinME. > My framerates just crawl at startup of a race but then get better as the > race progresses, but then become brutal again about 5 minutes later. > I'm using the same config I used under 98 (OpenGL as well as Tom's > tweaks) but the gameplay is way worse now. I have an Athlon 1Ghz T-bird > board with a GeForce2 MX 32 meg card and 384 megs of RAM. Again, all > worked fine under 98 but are terrible using ME. Is there conflicts with > Athlon boards/GeForce cards and WinME I should know about that is > causing this poor gameplay? Appreciate any help. >
"B_English" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...
Ian P posted this some time ago - this may be of help to you (or, it might
be competely wide of the mark, but it cured everything for me)
This was posted here a while back with regards to Windows ME.
It may help ;)
1. Disable System Restore.
Open Control Panel -> System -> Performance Tab -> File System - >
Troubleshooting area -> Disable System Restore
(While you are in this window click on the Floppy Disk tab and uncheck the
box so the system doesn't check for a NEW floppy drive every time it
starts.)
~~
2. Uninstall Pc Health.
Start / Run "\windows\pchealth\support\pchsetup /uninstall"
~~
3. Turn off Automatic Updating. (This will hog your modem for 30
mins every day when you first go on line if you don't turn it off.)
Start / Settings / Taskbar / Advanced
then check Expand Control Panel and close and go to
Start / Settings / Control Panel / Automatic Updates and turn OFF Automatic
Updating
~~
4. Use ram memory rather than the swap file. (The system needs OVER 64 megs
of ram.)
Start / Search / Files type and enter: "system.ini" then click on it
and open it in Notepad and add this line after [386Enh] (without quotes)
"ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1"
~~
5. Set file system to cache about 20 times higher than its default
setting. Copy and paste these lines to Notepad and name the file
MaxCached.reg then click on MaxCached.reg from Windows Explorer and say
Yes you want to add that information to your registry. (You must
set Notepad to "all files" when you save it or it will save as text.)
-------------------------------- copy
below ----------------------------------
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\FS Templates]
@="Max Cache"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\FS
Templates\Max Cache]
@="Max Cache"
"NameCache"=hex:00,18,00,00
"PathCache"=hex:80,00,00,00
------------------------------- to
above ------------------------------------
~~
6. Disable these settings in the start menu.
Start / Run type and enter: "Msconfig"
then click on Startup and UNCHECK PcHealth, StateMgr, SchedulingAgent
and Taskmon Then allow the system to reboot so all these changes will
take effect.
~~
7. Run Windows Explorer and click on Tools / Folder Options / View and
select "Show hidden files and folders" then browse the c: drive and
delete the _Restore folder. Hold your shift key so it doesn't move it
to the recycle bin while you press del. This folder can have hundreds of
megs of temp files if you have been running ME for a while with the
system Restore and PC Health on. If you get an error message saying
there is a sharing violation you haven't successfully turned off Pc
Health and Restore. The _Restore folder should NOT appears again in the
future (unless you update a key Microsoft program like IE).
~~
8. See if anything unnecessary is running all the time.
Press CTRL + ALT + DEl at the same time, after you have first booted
up and see what programs are loaded. You may find several programs running
that don't need to run all the time. Most of them, if actually needed, can
be loaded from the Start / Programs menu.
~~
9. Don't let windows run HTA, SHS and VBS Script automatically.
Those file associations allow viruses to infect your system. Open
Windows Explorer and click Tools / Folder Options / File Types and
delete HTA, SHS and VBSscript. It is very unlikely a normal PC user
would need those file associations turned on.
~~
10. Disable "Automatic check for Windows Explorer updates"
From the IE "Tools" menu click on "Internet Options" then go to
"Advanced" and uncheck the 4th box.
Quoted text (12 lines)
> Sorry if this has been asked in the past but I recently upgraded to > WinME from Win98 after I got a bad virus and reformatted my harddrive. > N4 worked great under Win98 but it seems to be struggling under WinME. > My framerates just crawl at startup of a race but then get better as the > race progresses, but then become brutal again about 5 minutes later. > I'm using the same config I used under 98 (OpenGL as well as Tom's > tweaks) but the gameplay is way worse now. I have an Athlon 1Ghz T-bird > board with a GeForce2 MX 32 meg card and 384 megs of RAM. Again, all > worked fine under 98 but are terrible using ME. Is there conflicts with > Athlon boards/GeForce cards and WinME I should know about that is > causing this poor gameplay? Appreciate any help. >B_English;
I would be careful about removing PC Health, and System restore, when I did
this I lost my "Search for Files and Folders" function, and "System
Information". I know that System Information keep saying a dll from PC Heath
was needed and not loading.
Don't know about the file search, just will not post any results.
Now I had problems trying to remove System Restore, kept coming back, heh I
guess that's part of System Restore.
I used a utility "System Restore Remover Pro v1.5 Final" from
www.definition-software.com to get it removed.
Whether this utility did more removal of something than the process in the
posts of this thread?? Who knows.
Most of this stuff can be disabled by editing the registry in the run or run
services lines. http://www.regedit.com/ can be a help in this area.
As far as the "ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1" and "Set file system to cache
about 20 times higher than its default".
Swapfile Usage, I saw a definite performance loss, "set file cache" was not
tried.
This is what I use for a hard drive cache in the system.ini file. I used to
use a larger setting ala Windows NT, but in a bulletin from MS, this can
degrade performance in WinME, (sorry no link to knowledge base).
[vcache]
MinFileCache=51200
MaxFileCache=56320
Also disabling things in "Msconfig" kept bringing up a dialog box saying
that the startup is other than "normal" on every boot up.
That is why I went into the registry an deleted the values in the "Run" &
"Run services".
Microsoft Office, versions 97, 2000 and XP, get rid of the search function,
"Find File" or whatever it's called, that will run allot!
Run & Run Services in registry editing will stop this.
Now if you just use your computer for gaming (who does?) and can do with the
quirks of these posted edits OK. but....
I would look into changing your video drivers, I use the NVIDIA v7.97
(4.12.01.0797) with WinME and work good in Nascar 4, GPL, NFSHS & PU, Q3,
but suck in Unreal Tournament.
Here is a good read about swapfile optimization.
http://rojakpot.com/Speed_Demonz/Swapfile_Optimization/Swapfile_Optimization
_01.htm
System Info:
P3-866 FCPGA Retail Box @ 871MHz.
ASUS CUSL-2C without onboard audio.
512mb Micron Ram.
Gefarce 2 Pro 32MB.
SB Live X-Gamer.
Gobs of HD space (200GB on 6 Drives) 100gb WinME, 70gb Win2k-WinXP, 30gb
WinME test.
Nice Yamaha Burner.
3com USR modem.
12 fans - Yada Yada Yada,
--
R.I.P. - William Joseph Dunlop OBE MBE 2/25/52 - 7/2/2000
http://www.roadracers.uk.com/legend.htm
"B_English" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...
Ian P posted this some time ago - this may be of help to you (or, it might
be competely wide of the mark, but it cured everything for me)
This was posted here a while back with regards to Windows ME.
It may help ;)
1. Disable System Restore.
Open Control Panel -> System -> Performance Tab -> File System - >
Troubleshooting area -> Disable System Restore
(While you are in this window click on the Floppy Disk tab and uncheck the
box so the system doesn't check for a NEW floppy drive every time it
starts.)
~~
2. Uninstall Pc Health.
Start / Run "\windows\pchealth\support\pchsetup /uninstall"
~~
3. Turn off Automatic Updating. (This will hog your modem for 30
mins every day when you first go on line if you don't turn it off.)
Start / Settings / Taskbar / Advanced
then check Expand Control Panel and close and go to
Start / Settings / Control Panel / Automatic Updates and turn OFF Automatic
Updating
~~
4. Use ram memory rather than the swap file. (The system needs OVER 64 megs
of ram.)
Start / Search / Files type and enter: "system.ini" then click on it
and open it in Notepad and add this line after [386Enh] (without quotes)
"ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1"
~~
5. Set file system to cache about 20 times higher than its default
setting. Copy and paste these lines to Notepad and name the file
MaxCached.reg then click on MaxCached.reg from Windows Explorer and say
Yes you want to add that information to your registry. (You must
set Notepad to "all files" when you save it or it will save as text.)
-------------------------------- copy
below ----------------------------------
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\FS Templates]
@="Max Cache"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\FS
Templates\Max Cache]
@="Max Cache"
"NameCache"=hex:00,18,00,00
"PathCache"=hex:80,00,00,00
------------------------------- to
above ------------------------------------
~~
6. Disable these settings in the start menu.
Start / Run type and enter: "Msconfig"
then click on Startup and UNCHECK PcHealth, StateMgr, SchedulingAgent
and Taskmon Then allow the system to reboot so all these changes will
take effect.
~~
7. Run Windows Explorer and click on Tools / Folder Options / View and
select "Show hidden files and folders" then browse the c: drive and
delete the _Restore folder. Hold your shift key so it doesn't move it
to the recycle bin while you press del. This folder can have hundreds of
megs of temp files if you have been running ME for a while with the
system Restore and PC Health on. If you get an error message saying
there is a sharing violation you haven't successfully turned off Pc
Health and Restore. The _Restore folder should NOT appears again in the
future (unless you update a key Microsoft program like IE).
~~
8. See if anything unnecessary is running all the time.
Press CTRL + ALT + DEl at the same time, after you have first booted
up and see what programs are loaded. You may find several programs running
that don't need to run all the time. Most of them, if actually needed, can
be loaded from the Start / Programs menu.
~~
9. Don't let windows run HTA, SHS and VBS Script automatically.
Those file associations allow viruses to infect your system. Open
Windows Explorer and click Tools / Folder Options / File Types and
delete HTA, SHS and VBSscript. It is very unlikely a normal PC user
would need those file associations turned on.
~~
10. Disable "Automatic check for Windows Explorer updates"
From the IE "Tools" menu click on "Internet Options" then go to
"Advanced" and uncheck the 4th box.
