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Advantage of cabinet with internet access?
BadMouth:
I finally broke down and allowed my current build to access the internet so I could install some Steam games without having to use shady workarounds.
I thought it was all going great, until this evening when I tried to run some NAOMI shmups and NFL Blitz which ran perfectly before.
Now they're full of slowdown & sound skips.
I assumed some background process or service was slowing things down, so I go about disabling absolutely everything that windows doesn't need. After every process was killed and every service was stopped that could be, it made no difference. Thought maybe the default video card options had changed, so I disabled everything fancy.
I'm not sure if it's a video driver that was allowed to update to run the steam games or maybe a windows update that I figured I would allow, but now the NAOMI games that were supposed to be the primary focus of the cab are unplayable. :timebomb:
.....and that's why you seal off your cab from the outside world as soon as you have it working the way you want.
Fursphere:
Ok, so whats needed to run Naomi?
If you want to troubleshoot, uninstall all the games in Steam, then uninstall Steam instead. Then uninstall every Windows Update that's been installed since the computer was connected to the internet, and roll back your video driver to whatever version is used to be.
I'm not convinced that internet connectivity has anything to do with it.... but if it did, you should be able to "undo" whatever it "did".
CoryBee:
--- Quote from: Fursphere on August 27, 2013, 09:32:37 pm ---I'm not convinced that internet connectivity has anything to do with it.... but if it did, you should be able to "undo" whatever it "did".
--- End quote ---
I disagree completely. Windows XP hails home as soon as you connect to the internet. You can see this if you do a fresh install and connect to the internet, then run this command in a Command Prompt
--- Code: ---netstat -b 5 > activity.txt
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This will show any network activity on the computer. Let it run for a while, since this is for diagnostic purposes let it run for 12 - 24 hours before hitting
--- Code: ---Ctrl+C
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Open up the start menu and click on run, then type in
--- Code: ---activity.txt
--- End code ---
Hit enter and you will see what connections have been made on your computer and from which programs.
Also when you have registry changes to your computer it is really, really hard to rid yourself of them just by uninstalling the culprit.
Fursphere:
I think you missed the point of what I was saying.
Simply plugging your Windows XP based system (why the hell are still running XP again?) into the "Internet" will not effect performance. If you have Windows set to auto-update - there could be something there to blame.
BadMouth:
--- Quote from: Fursphere on August 27, 2013, 09:32:37 pm ---Ok, so whats needed to run Naomi?
If you want to troubleshoot, uninstall all the games in Steam, then uninstall Steam instead. Then uninstall every Windows Update that's been installed since the computer was connected to the internet, and roll back your video driver to whatever version is used to be.
I'm not convinced that internet connectivity has anything to do with it.... but if it did, you should be able to "undo" whatever it "did".
--- End quote ---
I didn't think it would be Steam since stopping all services and processes related to it made no difference.
It was the video driver.
Uninstalled it, Vista reinstalled one from 2012, NAOMI games running full speed again.
MKK still works. I didn't expect it to.
Hour and a half lost messing with it. I'm glad that was all.
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