To play better in Freelancer and others games

Sun Aug 17, 2003 2:00 am by Amarox Astarex

One of the advice who I give to the people who are going to play a game in a computer is that while less connections have in the PC the better .First place I suggest you to have your mouse in the PS2 port like the keyboard, many marks as Logitech has adapters to be able to use plug of the USB in the PS2.Also it is necessary to close programs that they are in the background like the antivirus and feasible(.exe) of printer like the Lexmark.Add more RAM to he PC,in Windows XP I have a trick this it consists of to close Windows Explorer via the Task Manager and using the Task Manager to open your game .exe.What?as readed it,oh but remember not to close the Task Manager, keep it minimized.

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Edited by - Amarox Astarex on 29-08-2003 05:44:26

Sun Aug 17, 2003 2:25 am by Imagine

You can really close down explorer and open up something else? Looks like explorer doesn't really suck up much in the way of system resources unless you're really short on ram.

Sun Aug 17, 2003 2:51 am by Sirius

If you shut down exploror, you cannot access the start menu or the desktop icons. Use the task managers 'run' program to run freelancer.

I dont need to do this because i have 1Gb of DDR 2100+ ram

Having a kick @$$ computer is awsome.

EDIT: Just noticed that this is in the WRONG FORUM

Should be moved to the tech forum of the off topic one.

Edited by - Xenocideforme on 17-08-2003 03:53:29

Sun Aug 17, 2003 4:29 am by westline264

Just make sure that you dont shutdown any software firewall you are running. In light of the latest worm virus out there, you shouldnt shutdown your antivirus either.

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Sun Aug 17, 2003 7:39 am by Puke Barwalker

Also make sure you don't shut down the cmputer... really slows down the play.

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Sun Aug 17, 2003 8:02 am by ElectricBrain

Go to Start/Run and put in this: Rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks

That makes your computer process through the idle tasks so it won't go through them when your playing your games. Totally safe thing to do.

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