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Windows Accelerators - Do They Really Work?
danila asks: "Today I came across an intriguing review of Windows tweakers on a Russian technology news site. Among the plethora of traditional registry tweakers, the review mentioned Hare 1.5.1. The developers promised nothing less than up to 300% speed increase, 10% FPS increase in 3D games, automatic RAM preservation and even a wizard that automatically cleans and optimizes Windows. It also had AntiCrash 3.6.1 a program to prevent up to 95.8% of Windows crashes. Understandably, I was both intrigued and suspicious since it sounded too good to be true." Has anyone tried this piece of software with any degree of success? How successful are other "windows accelerators" at improving Windows performance?
"After a little research I found that download.com didn't have it and there are precious few reviews of this revolutionary software online, but that it was endorsed by McAfee and that developers touted conformance with Microsoft's interface guidelines as an important feature.
Still suspicious, I gathered all my courage and installed both programs (silently preparing for something like Bonsi Buddy or XXX Toolbar) on my Win2k Pro machine (P4 1.6/512Mb). Truth be told, after several minutes I was blown away. Obviously I can't tell how well every promised features works, but disk caching (and pre-fetching) that Hare does is outstanding and display performance improved enough to scare me - windows were opening, minimizing and redrawing without the delay I was accustomed to.
The question is -- is it real or was I fooled by some clever placebo tricks? And if it is real, why isn't the Web full of success stories involving Hare and AntiCrash? Why isn't everyone installing them on every Windows machine in the world? And a rhetorical question -- why doesn't Microsoft incorporate some of the features into its operating systems."
Still suspicious, I gathered all my courage and installed both programs (silently preparing for something like Bonsi Buddy or XXX Toolbar) on my Win2k Pro machine (P4 1.6/512Mb). Truth be told, after several minutes I was blown away. Obviously I can't tell how well every promised features works, but disk caching (and pre-fetching) that Hare does is outstanding and display performance improved enough to scare me - windows were opening, minimizing and redrawing without the delay I was accustomed to.
The question is -- is it real or was I fooled by some clever placebo tricks? And if it is real, why isn't the Web full of success stories involving Hare and AntiCrash? Why isn't everyone installing them on every Windows machine in the world? And a rhetorical question -- why doesn't Microsoft incorporate some of the features into its operating systems."
7-Max by the author of 7-Zip works well for memory heavy programs assuming your drivers all support it. It works by using 4mb instead of 4kb pages for memory management.
Even if this does work, in a big business, the left hand rarely knows what the right hand is doing. Its amazing what you won't find if you only use MSN search.
Nothing accelerates windows like a good ol' fashioned 9.8m/s^2
My Windows 2K install was pretty slow too, then I grabbed this one program. I think it was called Mac OS X. Ever since then, haven't had any viruses, crashes or slow performance. You should give it a try...
I think I'll wait and see what my geekly brothers have to say before I assume it is anything other than a faster way to have your data deleted.
Come and see the violence inherent in the system!
They cost about $200 more than your current processor, and you can buy them from Intel or AMD.
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
silently preparing for something like Bonsi Buddy or XXX Toolbar
And disappointed when that didn't happen. I know. I know. I love Bonzi Buddy too
- Windows runs on many different pieces of hardware. Not all hardware supports the options that these accelerators need. Believe it or not, not everyone has an AGP video card.
- Linux is not faster as a desktop than windows. As the gnome and kde desktops are the main competition for Microsoft Windows, it does not make sense for microsoft to make windows as fast as it can, because Linux is not currently faster. If Linux does get better, then Microsoft will still have 'gas in the tank' to make windows faster again.
Just my thoughtsgave me the ability to boot Windows98 in 7 sec. and provided me with the most stable Windowsxx ever!
Too good to be true. Sorry, even Linux and BSD won't give you that much improvement over windows. Don't give 'em your credit card number.
I'd buy your browsing speed will imporove 300% if you remove IE spyware, but a broad 300% speed increase is bogus.
I tried it, too, completely broke my new Dell !
So is someone going to post about their actual experience with one of these products?
Never accelerate your Windows when you live in a glass house.
You have a huge entity like M$ and then you have these dingbat little companies making accelerators and crashproofing software. I don't like crediting microsoft for much on the OS end but I give M$ a bit more credit than for them to leave such an easy software fix undone. But hey that's just my two quid.
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Yeah...by the same people who will enhance your manhood, give you immediate credit even if you're bankrupt and want you to click here to "unsubscribe" from future messages.
Did you know that gullible is not in the dictionary?
Both of these programs had their last revisions in late 2002, so it remains to be seen how effective they are now, or this is just some marketing BS...
Anybody know what the "88-bit kernel" is in Hare?
I'm your huckleberry
...it probably is.
Sorry Chum.
I have set up this thread for alternive methods for accelerating Windows here.
Such as throwing your pc out a window
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Programs like this never seem to work for me when I download them from Kazaa.
Not the brightest bulb in the box are we? Why don't you buy the software and write a review based on it. Don't forget 386to486.exe while you're at it.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
Last time I used an anticrash program was McAfee Office a few years back. Basically a collection of virus scanner, anti-crash utility, register cleaner, etc. It was basically free after rebate so I bought it. Big mistake because I got more crashes after installing it than before. I ended up doing a clean install of my system to get rid of the stupid McAffee Office program. Then I prompty sold it on Ebay for $18. :-)
I rarely get crashes on Windows XP (or on Windows 2000). It's much much much better than Windows 9x/Me.
the obligitory "The best software for speeding up Windows? Try ." post.
prevent up to 95.8% of Windows crashes
:)
With statistics like that, no wonder I laughed so hard. Thanks for the morale boost!
I tried Hare and it never seemed to make a difference at all. It did have many interesting options, though.
The only program that ever seemed to speed anything up was O&O Defrag (oo-software.com) who have a background defragger. Leave your computer, and the defrag turns on. When you come back, it is off in anywhere from instantly to a minute. The program also has a nice complete defragger to boot.
You are assuming that it would be in Microsoft's interest to make their software run better. Why would that be the case?
The majority of their sales are made when people buy new computers. So writing bloated software that requires upgrades to run is in their interest, not speed and reliability.
Like a catapult, cannon, drop-off-a-clif? sure.
From the hare website:
Hare will improve performance no matter what software you use, thanks to a revolutionary compact 88-bit Kernel, which accelerates common system instructions
WTF? This is complete BS.
The easiest way to speed up Windows would be to keep it free of spyware and viruses. Almost every computer I go on is crippled because it is so bogged down with needless crap. I run Windows as my main operating system and all it takes is a little effort to get it running up to spead once it is free of viruses and spyware.
m l or you can search for it on Planet Source Code.
In Windows XP you can get things running faster by right clicking on my computer going to properties and clicking on the advanced tab to go to performance settings. From here you can make things run for best appearance or best performance. There are a lot of things I have disabled such as the normal Windows XP start menu and almost every built in animation and fading technique built into Windows XP.
Another good way to speed things up is to move the cache for programs to a RAM-Drive. This will keep things running fast by using the RAM as opposed to the hard drive and it will delete everything without a trace if you are paranoid that the feds are after you. I wrote a RAM-Drive program a while ago but it only works on Windows 9x. If you want to download the program it is available at http://home.comcast.net/%7Esessions9/RAM-Drive.ht
And now she stoped buying things that is sold exclusively on TV.
Is that software sold exclusevely on their website?
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Although doubtful, I wouldn't say such software is impossible. Sometimes some rather neat hacks can be pulled. Example: The Apple Macintosh IIsi came with 1 Mb of on-board memory. This memory was very slow, AND it was shared with video. If you installed SIMMS, however, this memory could actually be operated at a faster speed (70ns max if I remember correctly) than the onboard memory.
Some hacker wrote a program called IIsi RAM Muncher which allocates the first megabyte of memory on start-up, and then does nothing with it. Result? All your stuff runs in the faster SIMM memory. The speed increase could be as much as 400% - not bad for giving up 1 meg of RAM.
Connectix Ram Doubler and CrashGuard worked beautifully on Mac back in the day. I always wondered if the same thing could be done on PC as well as Connectix did it for Mac.
Why is this modded funny instead of redundant? Hasn't EVERYBODY on /. seen this post or a similar one?
Could be they just turn off lots of the built-in delays that MS has in the system. You can turn of Window animation, menu item slide-in/fade-in/fade-out, and turn the delay to 0 for opening submenus. I do this with every install, and users always think the system is amazingly faster :)
I'm sorry, I'm as big of a Linux fan as the next guy but this comment is a little too zealous for me... I hate having to use windows at work but on the same processor, a Clean windows system operates *graphically* a little faster than I get in Gnome, nevermind daring to compare Linux's "browsing speed" to anything near a "300%" increase over what the standard clean windows xp would do. Linux is superior to Windows in almost every single regard, but the standard desktop suites can undoubtably afford to trim a bit of bloat.
How is this a troll?
Also, to prevent littering, make sure it's pointed towards the sun.
better hurry- I heard bush is attacking the sun next due to the life it provides to terrorists.
;)
This is like the people who, when you tell them that they need a new head gasket or valve seals, ask "Isn't there some stuff that I can put in my gas to fix it?" Of course the answer is yes, for $19.99, you can buy a bottle of stuff that will save you a $1000 repair bill.
Or not.
People are going to claim that "you can edit your 1337.ini file and set suck=no under the [R0XoR5] heading, and get a 11.1% FPS difference, d00d!"
This is great for the tinfoil hat crowd, that MS, Intel and Madonna are part of a sinister cabal to put you on an upgrade treadmill. It's also great for the Uncle Joe 6Pack crowd, people who typically "know about computers" and have loud opinions on that great free HP printer they got when they signed up for MSN.
There's no magic bullet.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
My favorite app for windows acceleration is a nifty little app named FORMAT.COM. It's been known to increase windows speed by up to 1000%...
FreeBSD Addicts
right click desktop > properties > appearance >
set "Windows and buttons" to "windows classic style"
effects >
unclick "use the following transition effect..."
unclick "use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts"
unclick "show shadows under menus"
unclick "show window contents while dragging"
start > control panel > mouse > pointers
unclick "enable pointer shadow"
Yes, but most physics classes in the US are taught in metric nowadays, so 9.8 m/s^2 is a much more familiar figure than 32 ft/s^2.
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Am not.
I haven't examined the current crop of these tools, but a lot of the old 'accelerators' simply did some system tweaks you could do if you knew what entry to change. They did work, but why spend $40 for it when the geek next door will do it for a bottle of soda?
By the way, the accelerators can work because they turn off some 'features' that almost nobody will miss, cache stuff that wasn't cached before, and even increase the sizes of certain buffers and caches. At least in general, that's how they work.
As to anticrash software, some is a nightmare to your system, some is useless, and some will drive you nuts.
If you're talking about those that actually work, the trick is there are crashes going on all the time in the OS and other programs that just aren't handled. Anticrash programs 'handle' them and let you know. That's why people think they increase the number of crashes. They just make the invisible ones visible. The basic thing is windows ignores or poorly handles a lot of problems, but then again, they wrote that code before it was in the hands of millions of users. The anticrash programmers studied (if they are anygood) tons of data on crashes, and worked out methods to handle it better for those. Since 80% appx are caused by just a handful of errors, it's relatively easy to concentrate on just those.
Useless piece of trivia...
Back when ######## was working on creating their anticrash program, they found that the single most crash prone program on the windows platform was Microsofts FindFast. (Or is that FastFind, I always get that backwards...)
That's a big reason why every technician will have you yank that from startup if they see it.
It's EVIL ! That's pure EE - VILE ! Don't Touch it!
Later peeps!
Don't install Webshots, don't install Kazaa, don't install those 3d ladies that dance on your start menu, don't install Bonzi Buddy, and don't install those packages of 50000 emoticons for your Outlook Express.
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We all know that a Windows system's destiny from startup is to crash (or be restarted due to an impending crash). Adding a little extra spyware will surely get you there a bit faster. ;)
Audioscrobbler
but will it make DOOM 3 faster?
* Hare technology: the core of Hare is a re-written Kernel, working at up to 88-bit (instead of the standard 32-bit) and accelerating most basic system actions by acting as the Windows Kernel. This is done by triple-buffering all I/O data, in order to achieve an emulated 88-bit Kernel. This technology is fully safe and we have implemented safeguards in order to make it impossible to damage your computer.
That seems a bit suspicious. 88-bit!? Ok, so it's emulated. That still seems like 1) a strange number (not 64, not 128) and 2) would "emulated" 88-bit architecture really work? Isn't the CPU's inherent 32-bitness (or 64-bitness) the end-all anyway?
* CPU Tasking: the CPU Tasking technology's goal is to give more CPU to the program you currently use. Even if you don't know it, there are a lot of programs working in background and sucking CPU from your frontmost application - the CPU Tasking will know how much CPU you must give to each application."
Doesn't Windows already do this?
True believers seek redemption from the sin of death.
Regclean works wonders. It's incredible how much a few messed up registry keys can bog your system down.
Not everything is analogous to cars. Car analogies rarely work.
Saturn V? Isn't that going a bit overboard? A quarterstick will accomplish the same thing, plus the added bonus of taking out that annoying tree stump you've broken three lawnmower blades on.
It's a trick, get an axe!
Well, it didn't work on their webserver...
...back in the (somewhat older) days when I spent most of my time in front of my beloved Compam 386 computer, I stumbled upon a bit of software called "386to486", which promised to instantly convert my 386 chip to a 486 chip. This was my first PC, and I didn't know much about it, but I was still a bit skeptical and very curious about how such a program could work.. So I checked the README file, which enlightened me on the subject with something along the lines of:
:^)
COMPUTER MAKERS DON'T TELL YOU EVERYTHING! THERE'S SECRET TRICKS THAT CAN BE USED TO CONVERT YOUR 386 into a 486!
Now, conviced it was just a hoax, or something worse, I tried the program. (I didn't really care about my data - the harddrive was dropped into the ground - multiple times, and the poor few working sectors I had only contained data I had copied from floppies anyway), The program happily told me the magical transformation was complete. I fired up MSD.EXE to check - no change in identification. Still a 386. I ran a benchmark program, which didn't show any change from before. Just to try, I ran the magic software again - this time I got the text "Your computer is already a 486!". At least the programmers thought about that. Well, no bigger disappointment, since I didn't really expected anything useful to happen. I never found out if it was a virus either...
Years later - a new little utility turned up on the BBSes I frequented - it was called 486toPentium, and the cheerful description of the file was "FROM THE GUYS WHO BROUGHT YOU 386to486"
Amazing!
You don't have to be a Windows enthusiast to be interested in making it work faster. If you're doing IT work in a Windows shop, getting the most perfomance out of your hardware without spending cash for an upgrade is something you should be very interested in. Time is money, and the faster your equipment works, the more work gets done. For that matter, if you're using Gatesware as a GameOS, you want to get the best you can out of your graphics that you can.
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the "endorsed by McAfee" link doesn't list 'Hare', or did you mean Anti-Crash?
i looked at the screen shots of hare, and it looked alot like the popup windows i've been seeing for accelerators. if you really did see a speed improvment, the you probably just found a spyware version of a spyware-blocker.
from Hare's faq:
* Hare technology: the core of Hare is a re-written Kernel, working at up to 88-bit (instead of the standard 32-bit) and accelerating most basic system actions by acting as the Windows Kernel. This is done by triple-buffering all I/O data, in order to achieve an emulated 88-bit Kernel. This technology is fully safe and we have implemented safeguards in order to make it impossible to damage your computer.
there is so much BS just oozing out.
so, they replaced the windows kernel?
running 88-bit on your 64 or 32 bit cpu?
triple-buffering?
impossible to damage your computer?
Hare is on the market since 2001 and no one ever experienced crash or data loss because of it.
possible claim, after all, Hare isn't about saving and loading data, its about running programs, so any data loss would be do to 3rd-party failings.
awards (on a popup?):
techtv - 404 (site redesigned, so this is expected)
locker gnome - 404
file hungy - "Not Yet Reviewed" but has a 4.5 of 10
shareware junkies - 5 of 5, english worse then mine.
Yup, gravitation really works.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
It slices, it dices, you can even cut a tin can with it. I can't remember the last time I saw a 300% boost in system performance without a hardware upgrade. Maybe Ram Doubler back on Mac system 8?
Perhaps my perception is wrong, but judging by the volume of posts falling into the categories of "M$ sux0rz, use Linux," "you're stupid if you tried it," or "this is /., you don't post questions about Windows without getting marked flamebait," I'd bargain that no one here has ever tried any of these and probably never will.
/.'ers might not even be using Windows; those who are more concerned about performance would be likely to either a) install Linux/*BSD or b) tweak Windows themselves. After all, anyone with even a fleeting notion of performance is likely to switch operating systems rather than using potentially buggy software which itself may be carrying spyware components. I could be wrong, but it seems to me (again, using the Slashdot posts as a benchmark) that most of the folks who have tried "Windows accelerators" don't really know what performance is, how to achieve it, or how to right-click their mouse. I guess I'm a little disappointed that none of the tech-savvy Slashdotters have tried firing up one of these packages in a VM (VMware?) or on an old, spare box. (Come on, folks, at least 99.999% of us have at least a spare box or two lying around--maybe more.)
Why? Pretty simple, really. Most
So, why not try it? Rather than complaining about the question (and the individual posing it), why not dive right in and experiment? I've considered it myself, but given the fact that the audience here doesn't seem interested in a legimate answer, I'm somewhat reluctant. (I also suspect this comment is going to be given a -1, Offtopic...)
He who has no
The product placement is getting a bit obvious here...
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
HARE KRISHNA!
...spike
Ewwwwww, coconut...
What's it do, drop you down to 640x480?
You can get significant speed increases in the system by simply turning off services and removing all the random crap that's set to start automatically. Windows Messenger, Quicktime, Winamp, MS Office, CD/DVD recording, AOL, there's so much junk that likes to start itself, it's amazing the system actually manages to boot. Get rid of all of it, disable services like browser, distributed link tracking, messenger, fast user switching, and you'll see plenty of speed increases.
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those worked like totally awesome too !
And I'll promise "up to $1M" to anyone who replies to this comment. Seriously.
Bear in mind that the term "up to" includes the number "zero", so to promise "nothing less than up to 300%" is to promise "nothing less than zero".As for my "up to $1M" offer, guess which end of the scale I choose for payoffs. The zero end.
You were 80% angel, 10% demon. The rest was hard to explain. - Over The Rhine
"Math in a song is good."-Linford
You probably didn't read the instruction manual very well (or perhaps there wasn't one to read).
Rule for recharging alkalines: Recharge early. Recharge often.
Alkalines won't recharge very well at all if you drain them completely.
Don't give 'em your credit card number.
Since he installed it, I'm sure they already got his credit card number. Check the balance.
danila works for this company and is promoting the software.
You must be kidding...
Years later - a new little utility turned up on the BBSes I frequented - it was called 486toPentium, and the cheerful description of the file was "FROM THE GUYS WHO BROUGHT YOU 386to486"
Can you change a 386 into a Pentium by running 386to486 and then 486toPentium? I think I still have one in the basement.
Name: hauer
Serial: 9034728194368
That's what you get for mowing your tree stumps.
Let's talk about something useful, like accelerating Linux... i mean, this is Slashdot, right?
I'm a chainsmokin' alcoholic sociopath, so-ci-o-path
I was running one of these tweaking programs that crashed. No biggie, except that every splash screen now is broken (mostly white, text shows but the nice graphics are just plain white except for the occasional blue bar in the middle).
I cannot activate ClearType, drop-shadows nor transition effects anymore. These options are grayed out. Strange enough, cleartype DO work if I enable it using third party programs like ClearTweak. But nada for dropshadows, including the mouse pointer drop shadow.
I tried basically everything and cannot find how to "undo" this. When I try to run the program again to undo changes it crashes the entire system, forcing a power cycle or at least a cold reset.
Any help?
Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all
If you don't get it, you weren't on any BBS's back in the old days.
But ... if your machine has enough RAM for a RAM-drive that can hold your entire cache, your machine would have enough RAM to keep from caching in the first place.
Caching is what happens when you run out of RAM. Moving the cache to RAM isn't exactly a solution.
its still August 2 here, April 1 is still a ways off for me.
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-Joe 2-Keg, for when a 6-pack just isn't enough man!
In Soviet Russia, Windows Accelerates YOU!
I'll get my coat...
Most trolls are way too stupid, period.
...the review mentioned Hare 1.5.1. The developers promised nothing less than up to 300% speed increase, 10% FPS increase in 3D games, automatic RAM preservation and even a wizard that automatically cleans and optimizes Windows. It also had AntiCrash 3.6.1 a program to prevent up to 95.8% of Windows crashes.
Hmmm... "prevents absolutely no windows crashes" meets the criteria of "prevents up to 95.8% of windows crashes". Strike one - plus what's up with the obviously made-up 95.8% statistic with its meaningless but important-sounding precision?
After a little research I found that download.com didn't have it and there are precious few reviews of this revolutionary software online, but that it was endorsed by McAfee
So by now we've decided its "revolutionary". Good to see an unbiased starting point. Also, since when does "sold by" mean "endorsed" in all but the loosest sense? Strike Two. Oh, and notice that McAfee only sell one of these products, and not the one that the reviewer makes the most claims about...
Still suspicious, I gathered all my courage and installed both programs... truth be told, after several minutes I was blown away. Obviously I can't tell how well every promised features works, but disk caching (and pre-fetching) that Hare does is outstanding and display performance improved enough to scare me.
Ah well, that's okay then. Asked and answered. And absolutely no signs of bias in this result . Absolutely no signs of any attempt at objective measurement of results either. Not one benchmark or even stopwatch timing showing any improvement at all? Strike Three.
Isn't it about time Slashdot started asking its reviewers if they have any affiliation with the product they are touting?
Sailing over the event horizon
Wait a sec...
The Cheese Stands Alone.
..or maybe not. I tried Hare on a Win2k installation, which died not
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" PhysicalAddressExtension"=dword:00000000a tch"=dword:00000001r d:00000001
.reg file and double-click. ;)
long after. It had a ram-optimiser, which *seemed* to at least free
memory from programs that didn't free everything (leaky MMOs).
I did find some registry settings that gave somewhat more of a
result, though. Some of them are from Slashdot posts, others from
various tip sites. Here are the filesystem settings I use for XP:
----- BEGIN -----
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlS
"NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation"=dw
"Win31FileSystem"=dword:00000000
"W
"NtfsDisa
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoLow
---- END -----
This switches off many filesystem options the average user doesn't
care about, and increases disk activity a little when handling a
lot of files at a time.
The NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate key means no files are tagged with
a last access timestamp when you read them, and the last option
is a convenience to kill off that pesky low diskspace warning that
tends to pop the game I'm playing to the back while nagging..
There are also some virtual memory settings you can try, if you
feel brave:
----- BEGIN -----
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlS
"ClearPageFileAtShutdown"=dword:0000
"IoPageLockLimit"=dword:00020000
"LargeSyst
"NonPagedPoolQuota"=dword
"NonPagedPoolSize"=dword:00000000
"Pag
"PagedPoolSize"=dword
"SecondLevelDataCache"=dword:00000100
"WriteW
"DisablePagingExecutive"=dwo
----- END -----
Just stick everything into a
If you want to know what everything does, Google for it - it's best
that you investigate before trusting me blindly
Here, try this one (I just stole it from a guy at the next cube)
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Well I loaded it on my machine just now to test it out. Running on a 700 mhz laptop, Win 2k pro. 256MB. And to my surprise it is noticeably faster. I did some very unscientific testing. Such as double clicking on my computer and timing how long it takes the window to open and display all my drives (including about 10 network drives) Before approx. 10 sec. After
It's little built in speed comparison displayed a 0% - 300% scale. It showed I got a 58% increase.
*YAWN* I'm sorry, did you say something interesting?
I noticed a change in my winXP task manager window, I no longer get the Applications/Processes/Performance/Networking tabs, simply the End Task and New Task buttons. Any ideas why this happened? I've since updated firewall and virus scanning, but nothing turns up on my system.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
I used to use Hare and Anticrash when I used windows, and they do indeed work. The figures given such as 300% speed boost is only potential increase.
Hare speeds things up quite nicely, and anticrash has stopped a lot of crashes, though it doesn't get them all. There have been times where a program I wanted to run kept crashing at a certain point, but when stabilized with Anticrash it would run without crashing. It may not be perfect, but it certainly helps.
BTW, this was on Win98SE and 2K. Not sure how it would do on XP, though it would probably help.
Look. It's got a friendly Technicolor wizard, so it must be true.
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
Back in the Amiga days is the first I'd heard about things like this. They'd sell a little piece of hardware you'd plug into your computer and for certain things it would go faster.
The piece of hardware was merely a dongle and the software was simply a set of drivers optimized for certain tasks (i.e. popular benchmarks). Their FAQ saying they're something like this too:
"Q. What is GameZap?
GameZap is a technology to accelerate games, which is based on Hare - but instead of imitating the Kernel, it improves some common DirectX or OpenGL calls in order to make the game smoother."
I bet nVidia and ATI already have those optimizations...
I think there were products like this more recently for the PC that optimized your computer (defrag the HD and the registry) and set some keys in the registry to disable the pretty windows things like resizing windows and making the start menu blend in so that your PC appeared faster.
If it feels like you've got your money's worth then go for it. Personally I'm saving up for a new system.
Sorry, man. I can't try it. I don't have a Windows box. And if I did have that OS, I'd have to say HELL NO when prompted to accept the terms of the EULA.
Then I have a bridge I want to sell you........In Japan !
Im trying to get my framerate up to where I can even play games. Ive got Win2k, a Radeon 9600, 1.2 processor, gig of ram. I cant even get 5fps out of my box, and have no clue what is causing it. Are there utilities around showing what drivers are loaded yet unneeded? HELP!
3DMark2001 SE
With Hare: 8702
Without: 8694
AquaMark3
With Hare: 19568
Without: 19559
Claims to have made my PC 141% faster. Um, no.
One of their employees offered to rent me several river crossings in metropolitan New York. He also offered a treasure map and the secret to eternal life too, but the installment plan was a bitch so I turned him down.
Having said that, in my experience these programs virtually all cause some instability or other that makes them just not worth it. I wouldn't run one of these for the same reason I don't overclock my systems -- the couple of percentage points of increased performance just isn't worth the increased risk that my system might die at some critical moment, causing me to lose hours or more of work.
YMMV.
For some reason the thought of a thousand BSODs popping up on a single PC at warp speed entered my mind when I saw the title.
Anyone remember the Netroom and Nuts & Bolts Suite from Helix Software? Similar claims, which used non-standard optimizations (and as a result, were not completely compatible).
Just buy a USB 512MB ram stick and use it as a ram drive. I noticed a 300% FPS increase in GLQuake.
I was about to install suse 9.1 over win2k on a machine anyway so I thought I'd give this hare thing a try for the fun of it. No personal information on the machine and my other machines are safe from tampering even if this goes haywire.
anyhow, end results:
render of a fairly complex frame using softimage 4.0 with mental ray 3.3 at a fairly low res.
with hare, 1:30.
without hare, 1:24.
So hare actually managed to slow down the render a tad. This is mostly a cpu and memory intensive task with a little opengl thrown on top for showing me the rendered frame.
so I'd say this thing is bogus. Especially given that 3d rendering should be heavily helped by any 64 or 88 bit kernel optimization voo doo.
IMHO, these "tweaks" won't work unless your machine is really messed up to begin with.
In the majority of cases, Windows, for all it's faults, does a pretty good job of setting up your hardware.
These tweaks will more likely hurt your performance.
David
That's a mistake there. You accidentally disassembled the CPU-Cooling program. The 88-bit kernel gets it's 300% speed boost by only executing every third instruction!. Of course, you may notice some odd glitches in your favorite software, but boy is it fast! ;)
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Here's a proven way to accerate Windows.
1. Format your hard drive.
2. Reinstall Windows.
3. Call MS and swear that you are not a pirate to reactivate Windows/Office (for versions XP and higher).
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In creating GUIs for programs I've worked on, I've noticed that people will THINK I've made something a lot faster if only I tweak how the slow task looks on the screen. For example, let's say my program parses an XML file in 5 seconds. I have some options:
Of course the easiest to do is option 1, but to users this also appears to be the slowest. 2 is an improvement -- but still seems kinda slow. Users think option 3 is blazingly fast for some reason -- and EVEN BETTER is if you create a progress bar that fills up to 100% multiple times before it's done (users no doubt think "WOW, look at that progress bar go!").
But back to the point: windows accelerators. I remember finding a registry tweak a LONG time ago which eliminated the short delay between displaying 'trees' in the start menu. Whenever ANYBODY used my computer (while this tweak was in effect), they always told me how fast it seemed to them. Was it faster? Well, yes, a 0.1 second delay was removed, but really it didn't make what you were trying to do go any quicker.
I guess my point is that speed doesn't matter so much as appearance.
guess which end of the scale I choose for payoffs. The zero end.
I chose the other end. Can I have my $1M now?
who'd have thought step n-1 would be so easy !!!
1: read slashdot
2: answer comment
3: profit!!!
"Be careful or be roadkill" - Calvin
What, do you think I'm retarded or something?
"No problem. I have the capacity to do infinite work so long as you don't mind that my quality approaches zero."-Dilbert
Check out xfce4 or fluxbox.
You REALLY get a 400% increase in speed/performance/memory and disk space! But they take 100% off the top for themselves to use for a porn server.
You win, they win, porn viewers win. Everybody's a winner! Profit!
hello world
Even 0% would satisfy this poorly written boast, or maybe the developers wrote it that way on purpose....
So slashdot is now turning into an advertising medium for the software equivalent of snake oil?
I can't believe the editors let this sort of crap through. The seeming "question", and then the amazing success story of using the wonderful Hare program. Ugh.
Even if this "advert" wasn't intentional by the submitter (which I have a hard time believing), it is giving this shady Hare program way more free publicity than it deserves.
It sped up my system so fast that my Blue screens of death turned into a RED Screens of Death!
What's the problem? He said Linux DOESN'T give you that much speed increase over Windows. Read before you post.
I've got a pair of otherwise identical boxes, one with W2KSP4 and the other with XP Pro SP1. They are:
ABIT NF7-S mobos, Athlon 3200+ cpu's, Saphire Radeon 9500NP video cards softmodded and overclocked to 9700 specs, Mushkin Level One PC-3500 memory 2x256MB in dual channel mode, Logitech keyboards and MX-510 optical mouse.
In both UT2003 and UT2004, the FPS with everything turned on max highest details, and resolution at 1024x678, the W2K box is about 5 FPS faster on average than the XP box. Other than seeing the FPS display slightly different numbers on the screen while playing, I cannot tell the difference bewteen them. The gaming performance is virtually identical on both operating systems.
..how fast you can make windows go?
Yawn.. It's a bit like discussing how fast OS/2 is..
Get over it.
There's almost always stuff you can do to makes things faster.
Regarding the alkaline battery charger, someone correct me, but doesn't an alkaline battery use acid to corrode a piece of metal inside the battery to produce the chemical reaction needed to produce electricity?
No, you're thinking of an acid battery (such as the ones commonly found in automobiles). A lead-acid battery is actually rechargeable, so long as the lead doesn't get completely dissolved by the sulphuric acid.
On the other hand, an alkaline battery such as the AAA batteries commonly used in pagers, does not contain any acid. It's got zinc electrodes and some sort of magnesium powder in there. Go ahead and break one open -- you'll see the black powdery stuff, the long silvery core, and the cardboard that insulates the two poles from each other.
See also, How Stuff Works
Oh, go on, check out my job.
For a huge percentage of non-business users, a more responsive desktop is all the faster computer they need.
I find the idea that you should buy new hardware when your old hardware is grossly-underutilized, or at best ill-utilized, appalling. Are you a hardware vendor? Or an MS employee?
Certainly the AGP video drivers should take care of acceleration. But apparently, they don't! At least, not as well as they should, by default.
I suspect most Windows users could get a noticeable speedup from their current hardware, if only MS had made it easy to do so. Instead. you have to be a registry expert, which is right up there with assembly language programming on most folks' skills list or list of things to learn.
Try xfce4 and Dillo, and you'll see a great example of how stuff can be faster (at a cost, of course). Or even try an old Amiga. Windows and Gnome on multiGigaHertz computers can't touch systems that are intended to be fast, even running on old computers. It's two different types of uses, for different types of users.
oh sir...the whit. I love it.
these "optimizing" programs are meant for idiots. There is no point explaining the technical details to them because it requires thinking on their part. Show them a program with a few graphs that jumps up and down claiming to be "optimizing" memory and they think their system runs faster. Never mind the fact you just released memory for abolutely no reason except to make a nice graph, slowing down the system while applications using the memory run smack right into one page fault after another.
what's so great about having a nice graph telling you, you have x amount of free memory? what the hell are you going to do with your free memory? look at it?
did you forget to take your meds?
The mac os (or something like that) STILL exists!!
You want a good review, go to a review driven site. It's a pity that Anandtech doesn't do requests like Slashdot does, though.
Always going forward, 'cause we can't find reverse.
- viruses
- crashes
- games
- and professional software
- technical software
- and did I mention games
I'm not sure about the latest versions, but I know win9x has a 400ms delay from when you click to when a window reacts, and there were tweakers that removed the delay. Why did MS add a delay? Who knows.
1. On Slashdot, nobody values the opinion of Windows users.
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2. The only people who can answer this accurately are Windows users.
3. Therefore, the only people who can answer this accurately will not have their opinions seriously considered.
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I ran the program out of curiousity on a work computer used for database handling. I ran every wizard and automation feature once. Prior to the program I was processing about 55 records a minute. Right now its processing at 190 a minute. Mind you this computer has never had ANY registry cleanup, defrag, or anything of that nature running so most of you won't have nearly as dramatic results, but I the speed increase was easily noticable, and definitely not just smoke and mirrors. I'm still a little skeptical on the whole 88 bit kernel thing, but overall the program nearly lives up to its claim on this system (for comparison I'm running windows xp pro with 2.0 GHZ 512MB RAM)
Don't you mean "Spyware software installers" ?
Nice post on prefetch, but the link is a little dry. Here's a more analogous article. http://asia.cnet.com/enterprise/apps/0,39035809,39 172453-39000221c-1,00.htm
Yeah, I tried it using Wine It came back saying "All Optimizing has already taken place" "Please Downgrade to Windows XP To Continue!" "End Of Line"
...nothing less than up to 300% speed increase...
Anyone else confused by this? To me it seems that any value would work.
Am I the only one who noticed this little tidbit on the bottom of the linked page?
http://www.dachshundsoftware.com/affiliates.html
I have tried these programs in vain ever since McAffee came out with First Aid. These programs worked for a while, but then began to screw things up majorly. Too many things to explain. Anyway, for these programs, I tried, then I switched to the Mac ;-).
Working with a clean installation is the hang point here. Clean installations aren't really the problem. The problem is the installation after you've got everything in place.
I'll admit that I have a bad habit of throwing things in that aren't strictly necessary, but are useful at random points. But I can track memory usage better than the average user. The best accelerator I've found is Ad-Aware. Most extreme example came last week, when a cleaning of the spyware took a customer's computer from about a five-minute total time to usability (power-on to access to Windows Explorer) to a little over a minute. Took three cleanings and reboots to get there, but it made it.
You can never go home again... but I guess you can shop there.
No, really, they do. You would be surprised to see how much faster are authors' and publishers' computers! Few hundred duped^Wsatisfied losers^Wcustomers and it's big upgrade time for them.
The moon is not fully subjugated. I demand a second assault wave preceded by a massive nuclear bombardment.
A while back I used 98Lite to get rid of alot of windows junk that I didn't use. This left my computer faster and much cleaner than before. I belive that the same company has a product that works on WindowsXP called XPlite that you can find here.
I think everyone doesn't use it, because we didn't know about it. Also, the 20 day trial thing sucks balls,especially since it's displays for 10 seconds and if you run it 2x's or 3x's in one session it counts as a usuage. I tried the battery program, and i don't think i used it correctly. It made my battery less effective than before. It was supposed to make it last 200 times longer, and it made it worse.
I've seen older (win9x and win2k) installs fragged by "registry cleaners" who swear up and down some key is unneeded or incorrect and then lo and behold, you get rid of about a dozen of those...and stuff starts working funny. Since then I steer clear of any kind of "Clean up your computer" stuff. The only apps I use in that vein are Spybot, Spysweeper and Norton AV
If you can't see the value in jet powered ants you should turn in your nerd card. - Dunbal (464142)
I seriously doubt there is anything revolutionary here, and most likely you're trading one thing for another. If I disable XP system restore and file indexing, I get better load times, but I don't have the capability to restore the previous configuration, and my searches take longer. I don't care about those, so I disable them, and it's a win for me. But I thought one of the improvements of NT-family desktop operating systems was not allowing UI stuff to hog so much processor time. Sounds like a step backwards to me. And higher framerates aren't everything. I'd rather trade 10 frames if it means I'm not losing client update packets to choke, or that my keyboard input isn't being ignored.
Fred
"A fool and his freedom are soon parted"
-RMS
I've found eliminating the delay in the start menu (and all other menus) makes a less disruptive workflow.
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Info curtesy of Annoyances.org
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article06-0
How many times will we get these old lame con tricks? I mean, it was only er 1995 wasn't it? Sheeze, next thing you know someone will post an article about recursive data compression somewhere and get taken seriously. Oops. They did? Where. Can I sell it to someone I don't like? To the newbies out there: it aint wasting memory, it's just pining for the fjords...
I bought one of these programs just recently, they come on CD. When you reboot your computer the program boots from the CD and installs something called Linux. I had no more windows problems after I installed this patch.
I couldn't think of a sig.
bugmenot.com has a login for you. Once logged in, the site works properly.
If your comment title says 'Re: Foo', I'm not likely to read it.
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is if you drop it off the top of a building.
I have no idea. I keep mine in my secret lab in the basement. Works fine. The basement--just like my computer network--has no windows, though.
Sincerely,
Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
"Homo sum et cogito ergo odi profanum vulgus et libido."
What's with the Games trolling? Pretty much everything that's come out in the last year for my XBox ( with the exception of Ninja Gaiden ) or PC has been total shit. At least I've got BF1942 + DC + EoD and Halo on my Mac now, and those are enough for me.
Too bad too few have seen the skit as well...
We were all warned a long time ago that MS products sucked, remember the Magic 8 Ball said, "Outlook not so good"
In my opinion, its fake.
I tried out these programs long, long, long ago, and I couldn't find anything to validate the claims that it made. It didn't bring about any miracle increase in speed. It didn't take any processing time, even when it claimed it was doing something. The game accelerator displayed before and after shots that looked as if they were simply loaded from preexisting graphic files. There were no real explanations of how these supposedly improvements were achieved. The whole thing stank of utter fud.
And when I made a post on the forum asking if the author could substantiate his claims, the post was subsequently deleted by the next day. Make whatever you will of that.
"How do you accelerate a Windows computer?"
"At 9.8 meters per second."
The original tagline joke was "How do you accelerate a Macintosh?" and of course had the same answer.
Windows 3.x was floating on MS-DOS at the time, and Windows was started by typing win at the DOS prompt. I often said at the time:
"I keep typing win but I keep losing..."
Tag lost or not installed.
I have seen some linux boxs in my time and the only way to move them is pull them appart Rack case from floor to roof bolted in. No crashes here unless some one is verry careless. Yes we have had to break out angle grinder on bolts totally stuck bolts before and a drill to remove the remaining bit.
I saw someone posting registry entries and what that "accelerator" does, so I figure someone knows what to do here. I'm posting anonymously as if there were a lot of shame in not knowing Windows deeply, but really I'm a bit embarrased at having had this problem and been unable to fix it.
I've got circa 2000 950MHz p3 running WinME. It has two hard drives on the primary IDE and CDROM and CDR/W drives on the secondary IDE. To quickly move a lot of files, I (powered everything down and) disconnected the CD drives and connected a hard disk to the secondary IDE. The machine recognized the drive and I copied the files with no problem. WHen I (powered everything down and) put things back the way they were, the CD drives were no longer recognized (except by the boot rom). Going to Settings->Control Panel->System->Device Manager and deleting drivers didn't help (or hurt) anything - it still boots on the first hard drive, recognizes the other as well, but not the CD drives. I surmise/understand that the machine has decided that there's a "type 47" (the user-defined type from earlier Intel machines' drive type numbers) drive on the secondary IDE and it refuses to give up this idea. I suppose I could delete a registry entry or two to fix it, but I have no idea how to find such entries. Can someone at least give a link to some possibly helpful info?
i've tied hare it does speed up some of the basics in windows but when it comes to really working the comp it dosen't help at all a vid encode that took 2 hours before hare still takes 2 hours with hare
You foolish person. You have admitted on a public forum that you have reverse engineered a program and discovered its secrets.
There are laws against that you know!
Yes...buy the Hare grow formula...guarenteed to grow hare! umm..hair...umm..nevermind...
If you are reading this, then you are one of those people whom I just can't take seriously.
I went to dachshundsoftware.com and downloaded those apps. They work great. I experienced definite improvement, maybe not 400% faster, but more than a noticeable change. I liked it so much, I downloaded them for my two desktops and one laptop. Now if I can just find a key crack so I can keep it beyond the trial period.....
You would be suprised how many grandmothers worked in business and had Unix come in as the newbie. To them linux will be childs play just as soon as someone actually allows them to get their hands on it and the teenage looser grandson doesn't think he knows best.
For the rest I agree with you. My linux desktop been more then ready. I code, surf, watch movies all a lot easier and faster then on a windows machine. I still can't understand all the stuff about codecs. Movies just work for me. Got to love mplayer. Linux not ready? Windows is not ready. Windows got the codecs, just not the architecture to install them all easily.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
No troll - after having been exposed to Mac OS X, I love it (and this is after years of Windows and Linux experience, and hating Mac for years because of pre-OS X's limitedness). However, I have had occasional slowdowns, and it does crash. Too, several of my colleagues have gotten macro viruses. Don't get me wrong - I love Mac. But it isn't any more stable than Win2k (XP is a matter of opinion), and it does get viruses.
Apple and Dell do this, though Dell takes your money on the Windoze installment plan.
With some, it's not very noticeable (I surmise that they spend a lot of time "inside their own heads" so Win4Lin doesn't get a foot in the performance door), for others it's startling.
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
Hacking the Windows Registry blows... No one likes to screw around in the registry unless you are trying to break your machine...
But, Assembler is fun... It was one of my favorite classes in college. Infinite precision math... Those were some good hacking sessions... I took it at the same time i took COBOL... Wait, did i just admit that... Damn.
Anyways, it was my old school languages semester...
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That's a great technique there. If you can't appeal to a wannabe geek's sex drive, appeal to his greed. Lighten their wallet by 88 bits. The really dumb ones will fall for this repeatedly.
Human beings can suck sometimes.
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You made a typo it's 95.98% of Windows crashes on Windows 95 or 98.
Writing this on a 90MHz PI with 24MB RAM, I too with Dell, etc would stop offering WinXP but with any amount of RAM. With fluxbox and dillo, windows open 300% faster than they would with an order of magnitude faster processor and more RAM. Boat, Bloat, Bloat, then it broke. Why do people use software that requires more hardware than an early Crey? Even KDE freaking everything off a Mepis CD works with 100 MB of RAM on a PII.
Feather Linux is very nice for older hardware. Runs live off a CD, has a nice grub boot floppy if you need it and installs with a simpe script. If you don't want to be that light and want to keep up with security and have greater flexibility, the package selection is all available under Debian.
I don't get any questions, especially whiney "it don't work no mo" complaints from my Mepis users.
Windows has always configured itself assuming maximum eye candy and enough compatibility. People get mad when the OS doesn't run, but most won't even notice the OS performing horrendously slow. For example, finding out DMA off in any drive is frustrating. I think maybe M$ is still lazy in determining the optimum configuration.
Windows 2K, XP has too many useless services turned on. Theres a freeware app called GameXP that has an option to turn off many services. It might be too strict for most users, but for slow PC's with 128MB of RAM is a must.
By turning all the stupid XP menu / combo animations, any PC will feel 300% faster. Win2K3 has all that stupidity already off. In Win3.0 M$ mentions proudly how fast are the menus. It's frustrating that my slow Celery 500Mhz displays menus slower than my old 486-33.
I like a program called XQSet, it lacks some options (like the quick IE startup), but it has almost everything. Except tweaking services..
"4. Multi-thread the program so that the UI is still responsive"
You're exactly right. Stole the words right out of my mouth!
That seems a bit suspicious. 88-bit!?
It just uses your piano along with your processor. As long as you can stand the noise of your piano running at several Ghz, it's quite the improvement.
See this (amongst others)
Good news for you! They already released FDISK! In fact, it's bundled with every copy of Windows!
You should give it a try! Now! Quick!
Pet peeve: Profane people propagating perfunctory pedantry.
Of course this is all pointless since noe one is EVER going to pass more than an _int64 instruction in any code in any program ever
...
Nobody will ever need more than 640K of RAM either
Do not meddle in the affairs of geeks for they are subtle and quick to anger
Lets just pick filesystems and buffer caching as one area of an operating system that can be tweeked to show some phenomenol performance gains. If you remove all the synchronous I/O requests made by a filesystem, you can improve performance on the slowest operations by orders of magnitude. However, watch out if you loose power in the middle of extent allocation and end up writing binary file data over the top of the root directory.
You can short circuit a lot of semaphores in the OS and speed up any operations that require concurrency. It'll work most of the time, and trash your data 2% of the time. If you don't need correct behavior, speed can be had more easily.
That said, windows is built to run decently on some pretty odd hardware. If you strip out all the unnecessary drivers, and set up some better config defaults for your hardware you can make some big gains. Setting memory zone preallocation, default filesystem allocation size, maximum table lengths, I'm sure you could easily add 75% to your performance ON AVERAGE. I am, however, extremely skeptical of any claims about game frame-rates. Games interract with the OS minimally, and are mostly hardware bound.
-my $.02
Install it on one of Michael's Computers.
So you can have your own 88-bit supercomputer with 2000Mhz bus today!
Speaking from my own experience I think it is possible to greatly enhance the performance of your system. I am using OS X and some utilities (the one I use most is MOX Optimize
It really accelerated 300%!!! I can't believe it! Try it out!!!
Now with 88 bits, trolls can generate traffic on Slashdot 11/4 times faster than normal, 32-bit OS using trolls!
Come on guys, look at some of these claims:
http://www.dachshundsoftware.com/hare/hfaq.html
Wow, you're pretty smart. You took something that obviously could not work, then tried it, just to be really REALLY sure it didn't work. You remind me of the guy who snorted the corrosion from his car battery terminal because some hippy told him it was better than crack.
That's right, I said what everybody was thinking
imagine a baeuwolf cluster of these repetitive jokes!
The programs include "benchmark" utils that tell you will get a great speedup - I can't figure out what they were testing, though!
Clearly, these people are not to be trusted. I have had better luck tweaking registry settings as someone else mentioned. If you want the benchmarks from me, let me know.
"up to" is considered a synonym for "lesser or equal to", and would therefor also includes negatives.
Ah, crap.
You can set up the defrag built into Windows to run during idle cpu time. Save a few bucks.
"Would it kill you to put down the toilet seat?" -- Maya Angelou
BUT.... oo-defrag will never see more than a handfull of users thanks to it's ridiculous $44.95 price tag for a single user license. I keep telling myself that at some point smaller software developers are going to have to realize that there aren't a lot of people willing to spend $45 bucks on a single function utility app and price them reasonably. But no luck yet. ~Joshua Norton
Regards,
~Joshua Norton
As for using FP (or MMX/SSE) registers instead of stack/L1 cache... since IIRC you cannot move data between a FP/MMX/SSE register and a general-purpose register directly (only through memory), and you need to put the data into a general-purpose register before you can do addressing (pointer dereference) on it, this can rarely help. Even in the case it does, remember that L1 cache is super-fast (on the order of 1 cycle of latency), so it won't help much except in marginal cases.
Doing integer math in floating-pointer registers seems to be a bit more plausible, since on the Pentium 4 integer multiplication has double the latency and 1.5~2.5 times the throughput than 80-bit floating-point multiplication. This is in the category of optimizing the code for the actual CPU at runtime, which is quite possible, but I doubt they actually do it considering the 88-bit crap.
I tried the trial version of this well ... it does make it a bit like when u have just started the computer .... but still not by much.
I get a larger speed increase by using Firefox rather than IE
Dont belive a word of the 88-bit kernel stuff.
This seems to good to be true. [Cow007s-Computer:~] c0w% Bull sweep completed.
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You just translate the 64-bit code to equivalent 32-bit operations when they are run (just-in-time compilation, similar to what the Sun Java VM/.NET or Mono VM/qemu/valgrind/VMWare does). With some care the emulated CPU may run quite efficiently, although it will probably not beat a real 64-bit CPU (true 64-bit arithmetic will have to be emulated with multiple instructions), and you are usually better off recompiling your program on the 32-bit CPU so that it can run natively. Also, you may have a hard time dealing with 64-bit memory references efficiently, unless all pointers are effectively 32-bit, or their top 32 bits are always zero.
I think i'd rather keep windows running as it is then trust accelerators which most likely would be spyware. Not only would they further damage your system in the long run but also exploit your system without you knowing it.
Will it run on my system? is the most common question I think is the reason for the piracy.
iD has refused to release a demo to answer this question, remember q3test? The pirated copy IS the demo in this case. The pirated copies can't play online either. Maybe some of the pirates will buy the game when it comes out in stores. Maybe it won't run on thier systems and they will just end up deleting it anyway.
Consumers on the net won't wait for release schedules - they get stuff when they want to. An example of this was Quake 3. iD boxed Windows and Linux versions separately, yet delayed the release of the Linux CD set two weeks after the Windows one was released. Now the sales figures say nobody buys Linux games. What really happened is the Linux consumer wanted Quake 3 now, and either ran it in Windows, ran it in wine, or simply downloaded the Linux binaries. I bought the Windows version and downloaded the Linux binaries. I also bought UT2004, and it came on a DVD which included both Windows and Linux binaries right off the installer on the same disk! Learning yet iD?
Another bad decision for iD.
PS the single player game is pretty linear and every single level is tight-spaced and poorly lit.
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the stuff works well, ieeradicator works nicely, sped up my small gaming box noticeably by removing major IE components.
I havent tried the rest yet, but that suff will give you some speed as well, add the programs in the article to the mix and you can make your friends piss their pants.
I use a really great accelerator. Its called Linux.
I couldn't play Counter Strike back then when i had 32mb of ram. Tho it was the min. required listed on the box. It worked for a little while, but then i guess i isntalled something else that took up the ram.
Note: this is before Hare had a memory defragger.
Anyways, after installing Hare i could play CS without a problem. I stand by it still and continue to use it no matter what.
Odds are good that the field is actually using bit flags of 0, 1, 2, 4, 8, etc. The above combination of preload options (application, boot, both) would fit that, and your setting would fit there being another option at 4 so that your 5 is actually application and something else (not documented, at least not on Slashdot).
fencepost
just a little off
I haven't tried any such products but I know how one could work.
You can overcome a surprising number of bad/null pointer related crashes by simply stepping over to the next instruction in a debugger. I've done this on a couple occasions when programs have failed and I needed them not to. Someone could potentially automate that sort of functionality, saving from many small crashes but on the downside potentially turning big crashes into bigger problems. So far for me the worst case has been that it still crashed, and in the best case it worked flawlessly.
It's sort of like putting on error resume next in a basic program. It allows it to survive errors but on the downside those exceptions are triggered for a reason.
The best accelerator I've ever stumbled across was called LILO.
Same basic idea, though - run something else.
"Hacking the Windows Registry blows... No one likes to screw around in the registry unless you are trying to break your machine..."
Well I guess that depends entirely on ones hacking ability doesn't it? My hacking environment of choice is of course Linux, but having been employed in IT for more years than I am prepared to admit I have been forced to build and support Windows boxes throughout that entire time. I cannot count the amount of times I have been called on to do serious hacking in the registry of PC's, and I'm not just talking about changing a key value from 1 to 0 every now and then, I am talking about massive pruning of multiple branches to remove various software afflictions in order to avoid having to do the dreaded full re-install wherever possible.
I can only really remember a few instances where it has all gone pear shaped and the re-install option was taken, but I am guessing that this would be less than five percent of cases.
"You can't fight in here, this is the war room!"
on back order for months now...how about mr dells home number? ;)
... (IMHO) probably because the advanced windows user knows how to speed up their machine on their own, while the sort of people who desperately need this have difficulty handling simple windows operations like installations. That's just my experience with 'em.
Didn't the guy (hmm, danila... girl?!) even bother checking their advertised Verisign ID? It reports an expired account which points to a completely different site (secure.element5.com - which, BTW claims to be a "software marketing company").
As an AC poster pointed out, the parent's 'sig' executes rm -rf /
I tried to post an analysis, but I kept getting hit by the lameness filter, so I posted the analysis to http://www.dlitz.net/stuff/malicious-perl-sig/
Hint: If you're somewhat familiar with Perl, try doing the analysis yourself. The code is actually not anywhere near as complicated as it looks.
Where was Slashdot & the WWW when you needed it?
Control Panel->System->Advanced->Performance Options->Optimize performance for:
Click "Background services", then OK.
You may have to restart.
This helps greatly for programming. This setting allows each program to get equal shares of CPU time. The default setting favours the "foreground" GUI program, thus slowing down any server and/or compiler working in the background. And if the foreground program desides to compile something... You get the idea.
Also, if you have more than one physical hard drive, make sure you put a swap file on each of them, and make them big - say 700 mb or so.
Having at least 512 mb of memory also helps greatly.
ya cant play with the included CDkey
I can't read your sig....
The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake those, you've got it made. (Marx)
Linux is fast, but Gnome is slow. Please stop using the speed of Gnome to say that Linux is slow. Gnome would run slow on Windows too.
works.
I find avoiding sitting at traffic lights on major roads by going via the back streets, even if the trip takes longer in both time and distance terms, feels shorter. I'm keeping moving, so I feel like I'm getting somewhere for more of the trip.
Which tends to indicate that if you can distract a human mind from making "time monitoring" the current focus, a human mind will not perceive lengths of time as accurately.
I think your progress bars are having the same effect as me taking the backstreets.
The Internet's nature is peer to peer - 20050301_cs_profs.pdf
south africa just (2004-07-15) had a ruling on a similar case: the 3x internet speed increase tv ad. it was upheld by the "self-regulating" advertising standards authority (asa).
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i'm skeptical about the ruling. no publicly available references are cited, and it amounts to the word of the appellant (tim dowson) versus 20+ local industries underpinning the asa.
as my rule of thumb, when the claim sounds like a common spam subject line, you'll will ping my bogometer
- p
Anyone remember the program that claimed to double your CPU speed, and benchmarks even would support this notion? They achieved this stunning feat by making each second of the PC clock twice as long, and making a minute 30 new-seconds long. Thus, you got twice as much number crunching done per new-second, never mind that the new-second was exactly twice as long as the old one.
At least it didn't cause any hardware to spontaneously combust, or significantly corrupt file creation times (how many of us look at the seconds?).
Mal-2
How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.
The most normal reaction of a normal server to a slashdot story is to throw a tantrum at all the attention it is receiving and pack up for the day. At the least, I can credit the software creators to have set up a good system with reasonable bandwidth for the server. But okay, it will take a lot more to actually get me to try that stuff.
:: desktop fancies ...... :D
At my company, I'm using XP and find that it works best when you do the following.
1. Disable system restore facility
2. system properties - advanced - performance - check best performance.
3. Check swap file settings to suitable size.
4. remove hibernation option
5. remove eye-candy
6. use firefox for internet access, initially slow as cache is built up
7. remove indexing service
8. and yeah, get rid of bonzi buddy, yahoo bar, lycos bar, msn explorer, outlook express, etc,
Cheers,
Arun.
co(g)ito, ergo sum : I get screwed at school, so i must be alive.
Not these particular ones, but I've tried various such before. Every couple of weeks someone comes with some "clever" idea how they could mess with Windows to run faster or prevent crashes. Big names too: Norton, Quarterdeck, etc, all had various such programs at various points in time.
They invariably suck.
E.g., Norton's "crash prevention" was _causing_ and otherwise patched-to-date and spyware-free Windows 9.x system to crash randomly. It was horrible. Uninstalling it resulted in a much more stable Windows. (In as much as Windows 9.x can be described as "stable".)
E.g., Quarterdeck's memory compression technique actually severely lowered the RAM available to apps and caused _more_ paging. Paging to a compressed RAM-drive, sure, but it's nevertheless worse than no paging at all. (Zipping the paged data does take CPU cycles.)
In the case of freeware/shareware ones, it's sometimes obvious that those people actually have no fscking clue how Windows works, nor what does their interfering with it really do.
They also usually don't measure. Just like that fucktard at the office who uses exceptions as flow-control, they didn't even actually measure if their optimizations work: they just "know" that it works. It must be blazing fast because it's his code, and he's such a l33t über-hacker. Or he's read it in some l33t über-hacker's blog. (In practice, throwing an Exception in Java is the slowest operation possible, so that's an anti-optimization.)
E.g., every kid with a compiler first guesses: "RAM. Preciousss RAM. Gotta free more RAM." So they write some idiotic utility to force-swap everything but the current app to disc. Well, that's nice, except it's what Windows would have done anyway if needed. Every OS, including Windows, keeps some form of LRU evidence to swap unused pages to disc when a more used app needs the space.
But what happens when that app _is_ needed in RAM? E.g., it's some core DLL of Windows. E.g., it's the IM program in use. Well, it gets loaded right back. And that idiotic utility force-swaps it out again. And Windows loads it again. Repeat ad nauseam, just generating pointless disk activity.
That's just one example.
A polar bear is a cartesian bear after a coordinate transform.
Nerdiest. Comment. Ever.
Well, if you use that analysis again, you should add some more detail, or it least text that describes what the steps you split it into do - your analysis doesn't help people like me who are happy with knowing the difference between $ and % - and the others can probably analyze it themselves.
I'm still trying to figure out what people mean by 'social skills' here.
Hi,
ClearPageFileAtShutdown"=dword:00000001
if I remember correctly this will overwrite the contents of your swapfile with zeros on shutdown. Not really a performance improvement...
twm
read this http://www.winnetmag.com/Windows/Article/ArticleID /41095/Windows_41095.html
The funny thing about any modern video card (as in, made in or after 1994) is that it has hardware acceleration for a lot of things. Including font rendering, blitting bitmaps, etc.
It also tends to have stuff like 8 to 16 pipelines. (Think: 8 to 16 pixels moved at the same time, for a total of 256 to 512 bits moved at a time.) It also sucks data through a much wider pipe than the CPU, has faster RAM, and has a metric buttload of cache.
Each pipeline is also hardware optimized for its job, and _much_ faster than _any_ software loop.
So I'll just laugh at people who think their silly data move tricks are going to outperform a 9800XT's hardware acceleration. No, really, it's so idiotic, it's downright hillarious.
That's one of the major problems with programming: writing some silly optimization that doesn't even work, is for a lot of people more fun than actually doing the job. They just have to do some idiocy like using an Exception for flow control, or using float registers instead of the damn GPU.
And the more speed they _lose_ in the process (not unusual to see a 10x to 100x speed _drop_), tbe more they're convinced they've gained 300%. They haven't actually measured it (in which case they'd see it's actually _lost_ speed), but they just "know" it.
They're so l33t that everything they touch turns gold, after all. No point in actually measuring, when you already know it's got to be faster.
And God knows there's no shortage of them infatuated enough to post their "cool tricks" on some web site, or make a l33t "windows accelerator" utility out of it.
A polar bear is a cartesian bear after a coordinate transform.
I've been running Damn Small Linux at home lately, another business card sized linux liveCD.
I'll take a look at feather. Sounds interesting.
What we're really looking for is a live CD with decent CD burning capabilities (to test hardware on the road). (I think we might have more luck with a USB or Flash based boot though)
Anyone has a suggestion on a live CD that includes "friendly" cd testing/burning software?
Nouvelles de jeux et technologies en français. TC
I remember when I thought it was cool to copy games from the boys, run some crack to bust it open and so on and so forth. Then I grew up.
The problem with that is who do you think supplies the descriptive text? Did you think the spyware is going to have a descriptive text string like "Malicious Spybot Keystroke Logger", or would it be something benign or important sounding like "MSWin key integrity checker and accellerator" or "This is not the spybot process you're looking for, move along."?
There are dozens of RAM defragmentation software for PC; forget them all. Mem Doubler has a unique function which is able to determine when your RAM needs to be defragmented! Just tick a checkbox, and Mem Doubler will adapt to your computing style.
Excuse me? RAM defragmentation? They've got to be joking. There are two possible kinds of fragmentation, external and internal. External is irrelevant with a paged memory manager (i.e. on any modern CPU). Internal can only be solved with cooperation of the applications.
Our interface fully respects Microsoft's guidelines and is very intuitive.
That's why in the screenshot of one of their dialog boxes they have buttons ordered 'Quit', 'OK', where the MS guidelines are clearly that they should be 'OK', 'Close'.
If MS guidelines are so important, where's their conformance testing results? What, no Windows logo?
I already faced this sort of problem (no BSOD, but installator hanged)
In fact, WinXP Installator do NOT rely on the partition table : it is seeing the partition you deleted with fdisk because the boot / system sectors still are there.
It was funnier than that, I formatted to ext2fs, but ext2 don't overwrite the boot sector and XP installator still hanged.
So your guess is wrong (I did the same mistake at first), Win XP installator doesn't need a FAT or unformatted space, but instead unformatted space must not have a FAT or NTFS signature.
In other words, if you have Linux, you should dd the begining of the partition before proceeding to the installation.
For those that have, say, a TNT2, GF2, or ATI Rage 128 card, but are running an Athlon-XP 2800, the CPU is far faster than anything the graphics card can accomplish. I've seen that happen when someone just buys a new MBoard+CPU+Memory combo for $150 or so somewhere, slaps their old video card, network card, and hard drive in, and reinstalls Windows as needed.
So, no, comparing the tricks of floating-point or (for 88-bit) process-status data-moves to the memory bandwidth of a 9800XT($350 roughly on PriceWatch right now) isn't a remotely valid comparison. Someone that can afford $350 on the VIDEO CARD that only helps game-playing for the most part isn't going to have a slow enough computer that the program linked to (Hare) would even be an interest to them. A water-cooling system to overclock with would be more their speed and price range, most likely.
However, if you're building a budget computer (say an Athlon-XP 3200, add an extra 1024MB of RAM and you're still looking at less than the price of a single 9800XT) it's very likely that the CPU is capable of more than the on-board video card for most older games (Counter-Strike, anyone?) for example.
And to be more precise, SOME video cards made after 1994 support stuff like font acceleration. Most don't, especially the ones built into most motherboard. There's a lot more video cards out there than just those running NVidia and ATI chipsets, hon.
A friend of mine worked as a developer and had a job writing software for a financial department in some company.
;-)
The people working there would fill out the details of some transactions and then press a button to have them stored in the database. Writing the data to the database took less than a second.
He noticed that the users would complain that something is wrong with the application. When asked why, they said that the data was not recorded because in their perception it was impossible to write the data (which they have been entering into the app for some time) into the database so fast. He tried to convince them that everything was fine, but they wouldn't believe him.
So in the final version, whenever they submitted the data, a little window would pop-up for 5 seconds with the title "Writing data to the database" and an animated image of a progress bar. When they saw that, they said "Now, that's more like it!"
Gee, and here I thought spending 20 minutes on this would be a fun diversion from babysitting renders (aka. watching digital paint dry). But apparently my time is far too important for you to let me waste. CHILL OUT!
What you want/need is Process Explorer. It is one of the best free Windows utilities that I have ever found. It shows all running programs as well information about them to help identify what they are.
Nevermore.
ME.
.5 secs, big deal.
With a bit of common sense and google, there is no tweak I cant perform on my system. Best part, since I made the tweak I know what it does and when.
After many years of using Win98 for gaming and refusing to upgrade to either 2000 or XP though I have pro editions of both. A few recent disconnects of win98 on my wifi and I was ready to try the 2000. Low and behold what I ended up with did shock me. With the same hardware from my win98 install I did see a perfomance increase in the speed at which my game ran. Load time was lessened though not noticable by me
I did notice a serious increase in frame rates it jumped up 40 fps same hardware. I was also using the latest drivers for my hardware.
I attribute the increased frames to the way win 2000 interacts with DX9. My only complaint is now my analog rudder pedals dont work. Through searching though I have found that few pedal systems do work with 2000.
I am Bennett Haselton! I am Bennett Haselton!
The best accelerator I've ever stumbled across was called LILO.
Some claim that LILO works even better if you combine it with STITCH.
Or maybe not.
Most older games worth playing were ported [from Windows to the Mac] too
Do you consider Half-Life and its mods not "older", not "worth playing", or the exceptions that prove the rule "most"?
cool. Congratulations...I like to download them directly though.....good to know that you equate growing up with no cracking a game. Plenty of legit and totally legal reasons for cracking a game though...so sorry..you lose
Never use a colon when a semi-colon will do.
Using Internet Explorer prevents the 503 errors from appearing! Wtf?
Element 5 *is* an online transaction processor. I don't think that Element5's verisign certificate is actually expired. I rather think that Hare does not link to the good certificate. When the certificate are renewed, I don't know why, the link sometimes change. It happened to me once...
perception is reality
I've been recently introduced to a Windows Server accelerator called QuickShift boasting incredible increases in transaction response time. Anyone heard of/used this product? - Spin.
LOL, nice attempt, but failed miserably.
You weren't talking about "legit and totally legal reasons for cracking a game" in your original post. You were talking about getting the game and running it on a private server with some other crack so you didn't need the CD key.
Hmm, I wonder what your "legit reason" would be for not requiring a CD key?
Yes, I do equate growing up with not cracking games just to be able to play online without paying for it. Sorry, you'll understand someday when you grow up.
I installed the software and it is truly, truly impressive.
I went through a number of posted messages and all the talk about viruses, spywares are certainly worth considering, but my computer is totally clean so I was keen to see the improvements.
I opened some memory heavy softwares like Photoshop and AutoCAD and was really impressed with the results. As mentioned in the software itslef, one of the things that it does is allocate more CPU and memory dynamically to the application window in front. This itself is a more intelligent allocation technique.
My suggestion to everyone who's skeptical is to download a trial and check it out.
Sorry but you again are too shortsighted to know that a legit reason for not requiring an online check of the cd key would be so I can lan party at a friends house with NO INTERNET...so, I'M sorry, as you just don't get it...you're so grown up you might fall off your chair.
oh, I might as well spell this out before you reply with some lame ass return. This isn't required for all games either, sometimes just the cd crack is used so the cd's don't have to travel.
Hey, whatever makes you feel good about downloading high priced games and not paying the authors.
Ah, what our high-priced educational system turns out these days...
I read lots of pdf's at work, and lately got just too anoyed by the startup time.
A cleanup of the plugins dir did the trick.
do me a favor and go vote for bush again retard...
Wow, more evidence. How many years before you're even allowed to vote, young man?
You'll be crying in your beer when he wins.
I'm curious why you'd think someone who pays for their software or uses Free software would be a Bush voter? I didn't vote for him then and I won't again this time, but that doesn't matter in your simple, childish world-view, does it?
It hurts to be dressed down by someone, doesn't it?
"stereotypical bullshit" is pretty funny. I'm certainly able to comprehend the options - It's when a 1337 d00d like you talks about running a crack for a game (read your original post, smart guy, you never said "I bought this game and then I cracked it because..."), there's usually one reason: you borrowed it from a buddy and want to play it w/o paying.
You're also a hypocrite: You claim that you, the mature teenager that you are, can "comprehend all the different options", while later in the same, run-on paragraph, you claim that I'll be voting for the "other guy".
Where's your "all options" comprehension here, genius? Do you even realize that there are more than 2 people running for President this year? Good job jumping to that conclusion. I guess when one can't vote, one doesn't bother to pay much attention. Go back to playing your cracked games, you nitwit.
And then 0 is for ION
This post written under Gentoo-linux with an SCO IP license.
yeah, who's using the 1337 speak out of the two of us? Who names himself basically after a LOTR character? If I am speaking of the legality of a using a crack then the fact I already obtained it legal is given else it wouldn't be a legal use dumbass. You see crack and jump to conclusions that it must be for illegal use. Don't confuse yourself and your friends with others. Just because YOU don't use them legally. I don't have to make my paragraphs all nicey nice and proper because I'm not writing a paper and you certainly can't talk about proper writing skills at all. Your insistence that there's usually only one reason speaks volumes to your little world in your head where your conclusions MUST be right because that's what you THINK. Sorry, the facts contradict you and all you have to do is read any other slashdot discussions on this topic. If you aren't voting for "Bush" then you are voting for "another guy", that guy by definition, would be the "other" guy. Here's the literal definition for your obtuse ass: other ( P ) Pronunciation Key (thr) adj. Being the remaining one of two or more: the other ear. Being the remaining ones of several: His other books are still in storage. Different from that or those implied or specified. There, now you've had your lesson and maybe you can learn what words mean before commenting on how they are put together. NO WAY!? There are more than 2 people this year!? You do realize how stupid you sound there right? EVERY YEAR THERE ARE MORE THAN 2 PEOPLE...a duh you fucktard. My teenage years are almost a decade behind me...too bad yours aren't. Go back to the shire you poor poor child, maybe Gandalf needs your help!
Ah, back for more I see. It's interesting, watching the dregs that come out of the American educational system these years.
Your lack of reading comprehension speaks volumes about the intellect (or lack thereof, in this case) behind the keyboard. I'd try to explain further but you're already so confused that it wouldn't help anything. However, since I'm really enjoying this, I'll point out more silliness in your post.
1. "basically after a LOTR character". Funny, but not close.
2. First declarative sentence means absolutely nothing. Total confusion.
3. I never claimed to be correct, only to suspect certain truths. Given your increasingly hostile, incomprehensible replies, I suspect I am closer to the truth than you care to admit.
4. "another" is quite different from "the other", which is what you said originally. "the other" is generally assumed to be Kerry, which you obviously thought.
5. "Obtuse ass". What does the angle of my ass have to do with anything?
6. Pretty fucking funny that your cut/pasted definition of "other" is exactly what I was goofing on you about. Reading comprehension is apparently not your strong suit.
7. "a duh you fucktard". More etymological brilliance. An instant classic. Well done.
Keep it coming though. I'm hoping once you reach 20 or so you'll look back on this discussion and realize your shrill, nonsensical replies for the immature blathering that they are.
One bit of advice though, as you reach your adult years. Communication is one of the most important skills an adult possesses. The ability to convey one's thoughts in a precise, well-formed manner will open many doors. Effective communication makes communication with you worthwhile. Trying to shout someone down with disconnected thoughts, fallacious arguments and sheer white noise will earn you no friends in the long run.
And finally, on the ever-so-slight chance that you are telling the truth, and you are, say, 28ish, then I have simply two words for you: grow up.
This is just too easy. Let's have another go at it: "1. "basically after a LOTR character". Funny, but not close." Funny, one letter off, can't be much closer without actually having the EXACT name. "2. First declarative sentence means absolutely nothing. Total confusion." Not writing a paper, you got my point every time, hence your replies. Further evidence that you were wrong in the first place comes from you diverting to other subject matters like age, education etc...classic sign of losing an argument "3. I never claimed to be correct, only to suspect certain truths. Given your increasingly hostile, incomprehensible replies, I suspect I am closer to the truth than you care to admit." Any more outright lies? What are you arguing for if not to prove your point is correct? Again, try to focus on the topic, which you have now totally lost and instead you are diverting to multiple topics. You know drug addicts do the same thing when they are cornered in a conversation..funny. "4. "another" is quite different from "the other", which is what you said originally. "the other" is generally assumed to be Kerry, which you obviously thought." Umm no, it's what I knew you would think because you obviously only know single, most used definitions for words. I, on the other hand, know more meanings for the same word and knew I would have to paint a picture for your dumbass, hence the definition. Again, I'm right by definition, and you? "5. "Obtuse ass". What does the angle of my ass have to do with anything?" Again, your lack of literacy shows. You go look up the definition because you're obviously still thinking high school math....again...dumbass "6. Pretty fucking funny that your cut/pasted definition of "other" is exactly what I was goofing on you about. Reading comprehension is apparently not your strong suit." No, it's not yours, that's why I knew you needed it, because idiots like yourself try to argue against the dictionary..please refer to my reply on #4 for more info..feel free to take notes and keep them for future reference. "7. "a duh you fucktard". More etymological brilliance. An instant classic. Well done." How did I know you'd grab for that easy one...ah yes, because it's all you have... And remember kiddie: Arguing on the internet is like the special olympics, even if you win you are still retarded..good luck!
My god, it's like arguing with a dog.
Exactly which character in LOTR is one character from "Azghoul"? Nazgul? Not quite one letter, is it?
I'll answer exactly one question in your rambling nonsense: I'm arguing here, for two reasons. 1, it's fun to watch you get increasingly upset about it. I'm having a grand time poking holes in your attempted arguments, demonstrating various non sequiturs and other fallacies in your rantings. 2, I'm hoping that by getting a verbal spanking, you'll think twice about spouting off with your immature nonsense next time, though I expect I've failed in that regard.
I have to admit, though, you did have a great line in here. It was uproarious reading that I'm arguing against the dictionary, coming from someone with limited spelling, grammatical, and critical thinking skills.
However, the enjoyment is starting to wane. This really is like pushing around a toddler. Fun to watch him fall over, but after a while, you move on. So, unless you really enjoy this kind of nonsensical ranting, next time you read that someone doesn't know something you do, respond with a little civility, rather than your particularly childish and embarrassing "hey dumbass, you can too play it online...get a cluestick please". Asshole.
Umm, nah, I think I'll stick with my original post which I knew would upset YOU into this back and forth posting. It's so easy to piss of a slashdotter with limited arguing skills, all you have to do is call them dumbass. I'm laughing about the whole thing. If I was THAT upset, I'd probably use worse words for name calling like fuckhead, fuckface, asslicker, etc...but you see I pretty much stuck to dumbass and retard. See, my original post is what started this all. It was a reply to some idiot making an obviously erroneous statement. You were wrong there and no matter how you try to spin education, age, or any of the other topics that had nothing to do with it, you are still wrong. You can play it online...so you are still a dumbass who was wrong in the first place... btw....OMFG!!! 2 letter difference!! Holy shit, really makes my whole point about it moot now...that extra letter really throws everyone off doesn't it? What, no witty comebacks on obtuse? You looked it up didn't ya? I thought so... Since I'm having so much fun, lets say that every single one of your points is true. You would still be wrong and a dumbass for the incorrect statement about playing it online. Next time you want to argue about something, please please please try to stay on topic..I know it's hard when you have ADHD but there are new meds for you now. You argue with dogs....HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...or are you referring to a significant other now?
Forgot the most important part here: "next time you read that someone doesn't know something you do" Here's an idea...don't open your mouth or post something when you don't know what you are talking about in the first place. That would be your first step on the road to adult-hood
Yet another error on your part: I didn't write the original mistaken post, nor the first rebuttal to your idiocy. Nice try though, game over, you lose.
Woof woof, go back to not thinking, it's easier for you that way.
I said some idiot, not you, and you did write the fist asshole reply....asshole. You make stupid people look smart lol....go back to your LOTR and acne cream kid.
I installed Hare and enabled the various video options. Then I went into Doom 3. Holy crap.
It made a huge difference. No more jittery lag when mobs appear, no graphics lag when waving the camera around too fast, etc.
The only problem is that I suspect the game is running TOO fast now. The chainsaw "feels" faster to rev up and animate. Going down an elevator I could have sworn took a while last time only took a few seconds this time, etc.
I suspect that Hare runs on the same principle as GEAR, the old MMORPG eploit. Basically what Gear would do is force a program, like, UO, EQ, AO, etc, to run faster than it should by speeding up the clock timer. The games, which had delays and waits built in to slow the player down, suddenly didn't have to wait, and ran a ton faster.
I also highly suspect that Hare automatically puts the current active program on the highest or second highest priority. This would also explain why Doom3 gets so much more FPS.
I'm gonna go play more doom 3 as.. er, research, ya, research to test this theory out. I suspect that playing during a cut-scene is going to be interesting.
Something that you just admitted to previously doing in the past, Mr. High & Mighty?
I guess hypocrisy is another thing you gain when you "grow up"...
There's a key in the Windows registry on NT-based systems that will allow you increase pages. It's HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Curren tControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Manager\IoPageLockLimit
Hex value 6000 is 24k pages. Hex value 8000 is 32k pages.
Also, in that key, you'll find DisablePagingExecutive. Set that to 0 to speed up your system. It prevents the kernel from being paged. And setting LargeSystemCache to 1 will help improve caching. Make sure you have at least 256 MB of RAM before enabling LargeSystemCache.
Oh good, another nibble:
Hypocrisy (n)
1. The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.
Hypocrisy is only that when you are currently acting in opposition to your beliefs. If your beliefs change, one would expect your actions to do so as well.
If I were currently downloading pirated games and ripping others for doing so, then yes, I would be a hypocrite.
Here's an analogy for you: Say that for years I am a hard core practicing Catholic. After a while, I decide that the whole thing is whooey and I become an atheist. Does that mean I am a hypocrite for all those years of confessions and communions? Of course not.
As for the "Mr. High & Mighty"... it's hard NOT to look like such when opposed by pea-brained knuckle draggers.