Laggy games while playing by myself?

Asz · July 24th, 2001

Whenever I play some games (mainly Driver 2) the game just randomly stalls and then keeps going, these stalls are only a max of 5 seconds but it happens too often. Anyone know whats going on? This even happens after I just start the computer or reboot it.

EssasinNation · July 25th, 2001

Are you playing a burned game? I have noticed that CD-R backups run slower

Asz · July 25th, 2001

yeah, it's burned, but it's not that it runs slower it's that it stalls randomly.... also, it stalled randomly on the original also.

Adair · July 25th, 2001

Could it be some program running in the background? You could ctrl-alt-del and close out everything except explorer and systray. It doesn't seem too likely on your fast PC, but you never know, try it. Also don't forget about Aldo's Speed Up Processes.

1up · July 26th, 2001

That was happening to a friend of mines' too.
His problem was that windows would write to the swap file at different times, and effectively halt the emu. Try going into system.ini and put this under the 386 enhanced section...
ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1

It worked for him....maybe it's your problem too.

Asz · July 26th, 2001

ahh, thanks, I forgot about the ConservativeSwapfileUsage tag. Forgot to put that back in there, thanks I'll see if it works now.

July 24th, 2001	#1 (permalink)
Asz EATS BREAKFAST WITH FACE Join Date: May 2001 Location: Tucson, Arizona Posts: 1,611	Laggy games while playing by myself? Whenever I play some games (mainly Driver 2) the game just randomly stalls and then keeps going, these stalls are only a max of 5 seconds but it happens too often. Anyone know whats going on? This even happens after I just start the computer or reboot it.

July 25th, 2001	#4 (permalink)
Adair Ghost Hacker Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 1,830	Could it be some program running in the background? You could ctrl-alt-del and close out everything except explorer and systray. It doesn't seem too likely on your fast PC, but you never know, try it. Also don't forget about Aldo's Speed Up Processes. __________________ WindowsXP pro \| ASUS A7N8X Nforce2 motherboard \| Athlon XP 1700+(1.46 Ghz) IBM 40GB 7200rpm \| 512Mb DDR PC3000 \| Leadtek geforce4 Ti4400 \| SB live X-gamer 16x DVDrom & 4x4x24x CDrewriter \| Enermax EG465 (430watt power supply)

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July 25th, 2001	#2 (permalink)
EssasinNation Registered User Join Date: Jul 2001 Posts: 24	Are you playing a burned game? I have noticed that CD-R backups run slower

July 25th, 2001	#3 (permalink)
Asz EATS BREAKFAST WITH FACE Join Date: May 2001 Location: Tucson, Arizona Posts: 1,611	yeah, it's burned, but it's not that it runs slower it's that it stalls randomly.... also, it stalled randomly on the original also.

July 26th, 2001	#5 (permalink)
1up Registered User Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: The Minus Levels Posts: 95	That was happening to a friend of mines' too. His problem was that windows would write to the swap file at different times, and effectively halt the emu. Try going into system.ini and put this under the 386 enhanced section... ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1 It worked for him....maybe it's your problem too.

July 26th, 2001	#6 (permalink)
Asz EATS BREAKFAST WITH FACE Join Date: May 2001 Location: Tucson, Arizona Posts: 1,611	ahh, thanks, I forgot about the ConservativeSwapfileUsage tag. Forgot to put that back in there, thanks I'll see if it works now.