N4 frequent access to disk

When I'm playing with N4 my HD is sometime accessed by the system slowing down the FPS for just a moment. I've an Athlon 1.4 GHz, 256 DDRAM, a Quantum AS40 GB and WinMe (is this one to be blamed??)

Sg wrote: > > When I'm playing with N4 my HD is sometime accessed by the system slowing > down the FPS for just a moment. > I've an Athlon 1.4 GHz, 256 DDRAM, a Quantum AS40 GB and WinMe (is this one > to be blamed??) Best bet-- disable System Restore in WinME. Or dump it for Win98SE like many here have, including myself. ;-) Good luck. -- Fester

> Best bet-- disable System Restore in WinME. Or dump it for Win98SE like > many here have, including myself. ;-) I'll give it a try, then....back to win98

"Uncle Fester" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > > Sg wrote: > > > > When I'm playing with N4 my HD is sometime accessed by the systemslowing > > down the FPS for just a moment. > > I've an Athlon 1.4 GHz, 256 DDRAM, a Quantum AS40 GB and WinMe (is thisone

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> > to be blamed??) > > > Best bet-- disable System Restore in WinME. Or dump it for Win98SE like > many here have, including myself. ;-) > > Good luck. > > -- > > Fester

I wouldn't normally disagree with Fester, but I have WinME as well, and it games OK........if System Restore is to blame, it's a short delay and a minor annoyance for a lot of convenience, if you render your system fubar from time to time as I do, a 5 minute restore is preferable to a 5 hour Windows/Software reinstall. (I've had to use it once....prolly not the last time). Not nearly as bad as say, when Mcafee updates my virus definitions while I'm racing online, which takes me clear out of the game, and the race is plain over........Aside from restore, the system hitting the swap file will also create the delay you describe, I've heard...I was advised to add a line to my System.ini file (Start/Run/Msconfig) that reads "ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1" less the quotes, this will force the system to use all availbale Ram before hitting the disk swap file.

There's a guide to setting up WinME for games here- http://www.legendscentral.com/guides_winme.shtml "Sg" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:E29g7.1198$[email hidden]... > When I'm playing with N4 my HD is sometime accessed by the system slowing > down the FPS for just a moment. > I've an Athlon 1.4 GHz, 256 DDRAM, a Quantum AS40 GB and WinMe (is thisone > to be blamed??) > >

"Simon Brown" <[email hidden]> ha scritto nel messaggio news:zeig7.3039$[email hidden]... > There's a guide to setting up WinME for games here- > > http://www.legendscentral.com/guides_winme.shtml THANX!! ;-)