Anything to tweak/do on vista to speed it up [on a highish rig]

[mrapoc]

Well yeh, i have quad core, 4gb ram and a dx10 card - even 2 raptors in raid 0

i still want more performance and wondering if there are specific tweaks you swear by

such as, turning off indexing, but im guessing this won't help a higher spec machine such as my own

 

[Rastalovich]

http://forum.overclock3d.net/showthread.php?t=21396

There's a pretty full list there. For a gaming pc I do them all now, takes about 10 minutes after the install.

Worth it ? Very debateable.

 

[sprento]

Well yeh, i have quad core, 4gb ram and a dx10 card - even 2 raptors in raid 0

i still want more performance and wondering if there are specific tweaks you swear by

such as, turning off indexing, but im guessing this won't help a higher spec machine such as my own

You were the first to comment on Rasta's thread !!!

 

[mrapoc]

indeed but the outcome of those tweaks weren't much

just wondered if stuff like aggressive caching on hard drives will help

 

[Rastalovich]

Gotta go do some stuff, but if u post a link to this aggressive thing, I'll give it a go on a gaming pc that's due a reinstall.

 

[mrapoc]

http://maximumpcguides.com/windows-vista/enable-advanced-performance-on-your-hard-drive/

 

[FarFarAway]

Frankly just defrag using Auslogic and that's about it

 

[zak4994]

frankly just defrag using auslogic and that's about it

+1

 

[mrapoc]

Got perfectdisk 10 so thats sorted

heh

ill just carry on reinstalling every 3 months or so

 

[Rastalovich]

http://maximumpcguides.com/windows-vista/enable-advanced-performance-on-your-hard-drive/

That sounds vaguely familure in the sense that when I went to check b4, it was already set.

I'll check it out this evening when I get home, there is a game I've noticed has gotten slower loading scenes (TheLastRemnant), which u can gauge by an animation they use.

I'll go through that auslogics defrag too, free stuff ftw.

EDIT: if it's any reflection on Vista's defragger, the pc I just installed Auslogic's one on, ( 2x 500g WDC in raid0 ) showed as almost all green (not fragmented) minus probably 5 blue squares (fragged) and 1 yellow (mft). The pc is set to auto use the Vista one at 3am or something.