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Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: screaming on June 02, 2004, 02:45:39 pm
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I got this link (http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1590&page=1) as part of a newsletter I'm subscribed to. It might be of interest to some of you Windows XP folk.
-Steve
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Nice link, I'll have to spend a bit of time on that some day...
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Nice...now I gotta see if this will make XP more usable on an old 600 mHz Athlon. It is really struggling right now! Hopefully, it can be sped up.
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Great link there!
Another good site for registry enhancements for 98 thru XP is http://www.winguides.com/registry/ (http://www.winguides.com/registry/)
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Nice...now I gotta see if this will make XP more usable on an old 600 mHz Athlon. It is really struggling right now! Hopefully, it can be sped up.
Are you serious? I got XP running on a spare machine super fast.. (not for MAME.. but rather just word processing, internet and photoshop). The box is a 500 Mhz P3 with 500MB of RAM!
And it FLIES!!! Just turn off all the eye candy (i.e. revert back to the '95 look) + turn off services you don't use and see how fast it can go!
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Are you serious? I got XP running on a spare machine super fast.. (not for MAME.. but rather just word processing, internet and photoshop). The box is a 500 Mhz P3 with 500MB of RAM!
What do you mean? I run mame on a PIII 500 with 256 megs of ram :)
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Ewwe... xp without the xp look. That's almost as bad as that hack to make 98 look like 3.11. ;)
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Are you serious? I got XP running on a spare machine super fast.. (not for MAME.. but rather just word processing, internet and photoshop). The box is a 500 Mhz P3 with 500MB of RAM!
What do you mean? I run mame on a PIII 500 with 256 megs of ram :)
well this pc was patched together with a bunch of old rejected components sitting around. It has an ancient hard drive and only 128 MB of ram. All of the caching kills it :-\
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Heres a program i use with xp, its automatically changes some settings and stops some processes. Basically, prior to using it I scored a 1512 on the over system benchmark from www.pcpitstop.com but after running the program, i scored 1554, not a HUGE difference but still good enough to mention
http://www.xpantispy.org/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=26&func=fileinfo&parent=category&filecatid=5
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I had XP running my MAME machine on a 450Mhz machine with 256MB of RAM and it worked just fine. I don't see why some people have such trouble with older hardware or why so many people insist on having the newest, greatest PC for emulation...
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Here's a good page for services. He explains them pretty well and advises which ones are OK to disable. Might help speed things up a bit.
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/service411.htm (http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/service411.htm)
As far as XP on lower-end machines, ram is the key. 128 is the bare minimum, 256 will actually be enjoyable to use. I have it on a p3 500, and it was miserably slow with 128mb ram. I upgraded to 256 and it runs fine. I don't use it for MAME though, it's a laptop with an 11gb harddrive, it doesn't hold much.
Oh, by the way, speaking of hard drives. CompUSA has 250gb Maxtors for $129. Sale is on till Saturday 6/5.
Paul