I am currently getting really bad performance on my games! Everytime I play a game such as GTA IV it really lags! I have about 25 games installed? Can having lots a games slow down your performace? I went on youtube and searched 'gta IV gts250' and for the people on youtube they have perfect smooth gaming?
Specs:
4gb RAM ddr3
Gts 250
500 hdd
Gaming performance slowing.
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Re: Gaming performance slowing.
Hard Drive Free Space?
SWBF2 has slowed way down for me when my hard drive had only a couple GB free space. Unless you play all those games, I would remove a few. Then defrag the drive.
SWBF2 has slowed way down for me when my hard drive had only a couple GB free space. Unless you play all those games, I would remove a few. Then defrag the drive.
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Re: Gaming performance slowing.
2gb free O.okinetosimpetus wrote:Hard Drive Free Space?
SWBF2 has slowed way down for me when my hard drive had only a couple GB free space. Unless you play all those games, I would remove a few. Then defrag the drive.
windows needs 15gb free to run properly..
Whats running when you play games?
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Well my performance has improved by uninstalling about 8 games. Will I have even better performance if I defrag, I heard it takes a long time to defrag?
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Possibly for the first, and probably for the second.Lozza wrote:Well my performance has improved by uninstalling about 8 games. Will I have even better performance if I defrag, I heard it takes a long time to defrag?
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Correction: Vista and 7 need 15gb free. XP only needs a fraction of that.501st_commander wrote:windows needs 15gb free to run properly..
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Teancum wrote:Correction: Vista and 7 need 15gb free. XP only needs a fraction of that.501st_commander wrote:windows needs 15gb free to run properly..
my bad...
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Re: Gaming performance slowing.
There are a bunch of patches for GTA IV. The unpatched game will lag insanely on any PC.
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Oh I'm just finding a place to jab ya501st_commander wrote:Teancum wrote:Correction: Vista and 7 need 15gb free. XP only needs a fraction of that.501st_commander wrote:windows needs 15gb free to run properly..
my bad...
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Re: Gaming performance slowing.
I've patched to the latest version through steam, still no improvement.Dohnutt wrote:There are a bunch of patches for GTA IV. The unpatched game will lag insanely on any PC.