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Title: What should you disable in order to save system resources when you play games?
Post by: stwils on July 04, 2006, 09:00:17 PM

I have 128mb of Ram on my desktop (windows 98se)

I now have running avast, zone alarm, and spy sweeper.

To conserve system resources shouldn't I disable them or some of them while playing? (I am not playing online but playing Civ3 from a CD.)

stwils

Title: Re: What should you disable in order to save system resources when you play games?
Post by: ardvark on July 04, 2006, 09:23:42 PM

Hi stwils...

Personally, as long as your system is in NO WAY connected to the internet, you could probably get away with shutting down all three. If you are connected to Broadband or DSL, I wouldn't even consider it.  ;)

Have you thought about adding more memory?

Best Regards...

Title: Re: What should you disable in order to save system resources when you play games?
Post by: stwils on July 04, 2006, 09:41:55 PM

Thanks, ardvark. I guess I could unplug the cable from my modem.

But short of doing that, could I undo all except the firewall?

stwils

Title: Re: What should you disable in order to save system resources when you play games?
Post by: ardvark on July 04, 2006, 09:48:17 PM

Hi stwils...

I wouldn't recommend it but that would be up to you.

Your best option I still think would be to upgrade your RAM.

Best Regards...

Title: Re: What should you disable in order to save system resources when you play games?
Post by: stwils on July 04, 2006, 09:59:00 PM

Upgrade my Ram on my Windows 98se?

I think I will just unplug the cable from the modem. :)

Thanks.

stwils

Title: Re: What should you disable in order to save system resources when you play games?
Post by: ardvark on July 04, 2006, 10:28:15 PM

Quote from: stwils on July 04, 2006, 09:59:00 PM

Upgrade my Ram on my Windows 98se?

I think I will just unplug the cable from the modem. :)

Thanks.

stwils

Why not  ???

I've noticed a difference on several machines (upgrading from 128 to 256 MB's) running Windows 98SE.

Again, your choice but I have noticed it helps game performance  :)

Best Regards...

Title: Re: What should you disable in order to save system resources when you play games?
Post by: RejZoR on July 04, 2006, 10:44:20 PM

I never disable AV. Only thing that can cause is a bit longer level load time (just second or two). There has never been proved that AVs actually slow down 3D applications (because they don't).

Title: Re: What should you disable in order to save system resources when you play game
Post by: polonus on July 04, 2006, 11:55:19 PM

Hi stwils,

Read here what you can do on Win98SE:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=21871.msg182954#msg182954

polonus

Title: Re: What should you disable in order to save system resources when you play game
Post by: DaveD on July 05, 2006, 02:00:31 AM

The only change that I would make is by adding the folder where the game is stored to the exclusion list on avast!'s Standard Shield.

Now you said you are running it from a CD, so that could slow things down more on your system.

Examples to add to exclusion:

D:\*.* (or whatever drive your CD is)
C:\Program Files\Stupid Game\*.* (or wherever your game files are stored)

That should do just fine.

Title: Re: What should you disable in order to save system resources when you play games?
Post by: igor on July 10, 2006, 10:35:28 AM

Excluding the whole CD drive might be dangerous - you never know what CD you'll insert.

Btw, it might be slightly better to use masks like D:\*, instead of D:\*.*