Excessive Hard Drive activity???

I have a problem with nearly all of my Racing games, the hard drive seems to be in use in what I would call an unnecessary amount of time considering the specs of my system, for example in rc2000, it causes the video to jump from section to section, making it all but impossible to get smooth inputs from the steering wheel, I usually find it happens 2 to 3 times each section. My system is as follows: PIII 450 ABit BH6 Rev 2 Motherboard 128 MByte SDRAM 100Mhz SB Live Value 26 Gbyte HDD (2 x 13 Gbyte Drives) 12 MByte Diamond Monster II 32 MByte Viper 770 Win98 SE DirectX 7.0a Latest Sound Drivers from Creative Any suggestions to alleviate this problem would be greatly appreciated. Regards Peter Cook

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> I have a problem with nearly all of my Racing games, the hard drive seems to > be in use in what I would call an unnecessary amount of time considering the > specs of my system, for example in rc2000, it causes the video to jump from > section to section, making it all but impossible to get smooth inputs from > the steering wheel, I usually find it happens 2 to 3 times each section. > My system is as follows: > PIII 450 > ABit BH6 Rev 2 Motherboard > 128 MByte SDRAM 100Mhz > SB Live Value > 26 Gbyte HDD (2 x 13 Gbyte Drives) > 12 MByte Diamond Monster II > 32 MByte Viper 770 > Win98 SE > DirectX 7.0a > Latest Sound Drivers from Creative > Any suggestions to alleviate this problem would be greatly appreciated. > Regards > Peter Cook

You happen to have Office97? Fast Find will do such things. Also, if W98 Task Scheduler is kicking in with a scan or defrag, it'll wreck the hell out of your frame rates. ;-) -- //Chuck Kandler #70 //ChuckK or KS70 on Won.net //K&S Racing //http://www.fortunecity.com/silverstone/thepits/195 //The box said "Windows 0x5f or better", so I installed LINUX!

Sound advice.... check it... Cheers, Shumi http://www.rs2league.com > > I have a problem with nearly all of my Racing games, the hard drive seems to > > be in use in what I would call an unnecessary amount of time considering the > > specs of my system, for example in rc2000, it causes the video to jump from > > section to section, making it all but impossible to get smooth inputs from

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> > the steering wheel, I usually find it happens 2 to 3 times each section. > > My system is as follows: > > PIII 450 > > ABit BH6 Rev 2 Motherboard > > 128 MByte SDRAM 100Mhz > > SB Live Value > > 26 Gbyte HDD (2 x 13 Gbyte Drives) > > 12 MByte Diamond Monster II > > 32 MByte Viper 770 > > Win98 SE > > DirectX 7.0a > > Latest Sound Drivers from Creative > > Any suggestions to alleviate this problem would be greatly appreciated. > > Regards > > Peter Cook > You happen to have Office97? Fast Find will do such things. Also, if > W98 Task Scheduler is kicking in with a scan or defrag, it'll wreck the > hell out of your frame rates. ;-) > -- > file://Chuck Kandler #70 > file://ChuckK or KS70 on Won.net > file://K&S Racing > file://http://www.fortunecity.com/silverstone/thepits/195 > file://The box said "Windows 0x5f or better", so I installed LINUX!

writes: You might also want to run scandisk or defrag yourself, just to clear up any possible issues... -- Tiger Stadium R.I.P. 1912-1999 Own Grand Prix Legends? Goto http://gpl.gamestats.com/vroc Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats you with experience... Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

And shut off any anti-virus software you may have running in the background trying to double-check every single file access that happens. ~daxe -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----

1) If you have MSOffice, hit CTRL-ALT-DEL and close OSA and FastFind. You can also disable FastFind (an absolutely pointless utility) somewhere in there. 2) Make sure nothing but what the game needs is running. (Explorer, SysTray, and the game's program should be all there is in the Close Program dialog box.) 3) You have 128 MB RAM - try shrinking (or deleting!) your swapfile if you still have problems. -- Kirk Lane ICQ: 28171652 BRT #187 "Yeah you won't find me I'm going MIA Tonight I'm leaving Going MIA Getting lost in you again Is better than being known" -Foo Fighters, "MIA"

>1) If you have MSOffice, hit CTRL-ALT-DEL and close OSA and FastFind. You >can also disable FastFind (an absolutely pointless utility) somewhere in >there. This is good advice, but rather than shutting them off every time you start your computer, you can just delete the icons for these things from the startup group. If something is loading from an ini file or the registry instead of the startup group, you can change this by typing 'msconfig' in the run box on the start menu. The last tab lists all the stuff that happens automatically when you boot the computer. Uncheck everything you don't want. (especially those annoying MS Office 'features') Oh yeah..after you kill Fastfind, go delete the index files it creates in the root of your C: drive. They have ffas in their names, but I forget exactly what they are right now. You'll recognize them when you see them. ~daxe -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----

How do I do this??

>> 3) You have 128 MB RAM - try shrinking (or deleting!) your swapfile if you >> still have problems. >How do I do this?? START | Settings | Control Panel | System | Performance | Virtual Memory | check box for disable ~daxe -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----

>>Msconfig? I don't have that one. Is that supposed to be in win95? Nope, it's Win98. I forget that some folks haven't upgraded their OS in the last 5 years. It's one of the many handy little improvements that make 98 a good idea. ~daxe -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----

>If something is loading from an ini file or the registry instead of the >startup group, you can change this by typing 'msconfig' in the run box on >the start menu. The last tab lists all the stuff that happens automatically >when you boot the computer. Uncheck everything you don't want. (especially >those annoying MS Office 'features') Msconfig? I don't have that one. Is that supposed to be in win95? Eldred -- Tiger Stadium R.I.P. 1912-1999 Own Grand Prix Legends? Goto http://gpl.gamestats.com/vroc Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats you with experience... Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

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>>>Msconfig? I don't have that one. Is that supposed to be in win95? >Nope, it's Win98. I forget that some folks haven't upgraded their OS in the >last 5 years. It's one of the many handy little improvements that make 98 a >good idea. >~daxe

Hahaha...ha - very funny.... :-) Eldred -- Tiger Stadium R.I.P. 1912-1999 Own Grand Prix Legends? Goto http://gpl.gamestats.com/vroc Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats you with experience... Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

On Sun, 26 Dec 1999 11:27:49 -0500, "Daxe Rexford" Another good thing to do is to click on Start, Run and type "msconfig" , click on the start-up tab and you can actually remove any unwanted programs starting up in windows be that via the start up folder or the win.ini, or even system.ini. It's difficult to tell you which ones you should disable since I can't look at your pc physically, but as a general rule when you press ctrl+alt+del apart from explorer, systray and a couple of other needed programs should be running. Mauricio.

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>>writes: >>>You happen to have Office97? Fast Find will do such things. Also, if >>>W98 Task Scheduler is kicking in with a scan or defrag, it'll wreck the >>>hell out of your frame rates. ;-) >>You might also want to run scandisk or defrag yourself, just to clear up >any >>possible issues... >And shut off any anti-virus software you may have running in the background >trying to double-check every single file access that happens. >~daxe > -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- > http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! >------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----

On Sun, 26 Dec 1999 12:51:44 -0700, "Kirk Lane" Well, shrinking your swap file wouldn't help as more paging would occur. If you have enough hdd space on your machine, find a clean drive, defragment it and then create a static swap file of 512 meg. That along with running msconfig and unchecking a few boxes in the start-up tab should solve your problem. Mauricio.

On Sun, 26 Dec 1999 16:17:03 -0500, "Daxe Rexford" Telling someone to disable their swap file is possibly the worst advice that could be given out. That means that programs will be limited only to the actual physical amount of memory installed, causing a considerable drop in performance, some systems won't even boot correctly. If a static swap file is created then windows doesn't have to resize it as it does when its required, in a sense the swap file is your extra memory, very slow extra memory as programs can address up to 4 gig. Cheers. Mauricio.

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>>> 3) You have 128 MB RAM - try shrinking (or deleting!) your swapfile if >you >>> still have problems. >>How do I do this?? >START | Settings | Control Panel | System | Performance | Virtual Memory | >check box for disable >~daxe > -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- > http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! >------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----

>On Sun, 26 Dec 1999 16:17:03 -0500, "Daxe Rexford" >Telling someone to disable their swap file is possibly the worst >advice that could be given out. Just for the record..I didn't give out that advice. I only answered the question about how to do it. ~daxe -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----

Thanks Kirk. You have made my day. I was getting the stuttering, and have been since GPL came out! It only happened after about an hour of playing, and I had kind of convinced myself that it was the video card heating up or something. With shutting down Fast Find (which I have never understood) all is fixed, no stuttering in N3, NL or GPL!!! Cheers Steve :-) >1) If you have MSOffice, hit CTRL-ALT-DEL and close OSA and FastFind. You >can also disable FastFind (an absolutely pointless utility) somewhere in >there.

Thanks for all the advise, I have taken most of it and installed RamBooster and now things are much more enjoyable. Peter

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> >On Sun, 26 Dec 1999 16:17:03 -0500, "Daxe Rexford" > >Telling someone to disable their swap file is possibly the worst > >advice that could be given out. > Just for the record..I didn't give out that advice. I only answered the > question about how to do it. > ~daxe > -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News

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On Mon, 27 Dec 1999 22:38:37 -0500, "Daxe Rexford" Ok. I'll let you off then. Mauricio.

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>>On Sun, 26 Dec 1999 16:17:03 -0500, "Daxe Rexford" >>Telling someone to disable their swap file is possibly the worst >>advice that could be given out. >Just for the record..I didn't give out that advice. I only answered the >question about how to do it. >~daxe > -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- > http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! >------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----