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Title: Improve Gaming in XP
Post by: DrewKaree on January 16, 2005, 03:01:01 pm: Dunno if this would help for MAME, but for standard gaming, it might.

Check it out for yourself - my XP box is being set up for my jukebox, and it didn't make a difference for that application that was noticable.

Game XP (http://theorica.click-now.net/gamexp.htm)

There has been a report of browser hijack software bundled in with this. I can neither confirm nor deny this. Since it didn't make a difference on mysetup, I deleted it. Will download again to see for myself.

If you're so inclined, give it a whirl, see what you think.
Title: Re: Improve Gaming in XP
Post by: DrewKaree on January 16, 2005, 03:07:56 pm: I posted this here because it doesn't seem to be MAME and MAME related software, which seems to be what should be posted in the Software forum. I can't report this to a mod (it says it doesn't make sense) so if someone reads this, can they report it so it can be put/left where it should be?

Tanx, tanx a lot.
Title: Re: Improve Gaming in XP
Post by: lucindrea on January 16, 2005, 03:09:20 pm: just taking the time to read up on the os , running the normal defrags etc and stopping unessary services should be plenty ... i avoid any software that change things i dont know about , 3 months from now somthing may go screwy like dvd's wont play or somthing ( problem i'm having now ) and it will take a week to trace it down to some dumb app i installed and forgot about , or worse , installed then uninstalled and it left some dll somewhere messing up everything ...

this of course doesnt mean i wont do a system state save and fiddle with it anyway ;)
Title: Re: Improve Gaming in XP
Post by: DYNAGOD on January 17, 2005, 11:10:16 am: looks like abandonware..
the program is optimised to work with directx 7 cards..
considering we a re at directx 9c now with a whole newpixel shader scheme im a bit skeptical about this programs capabilities.
Title: Re: Improve Gaming in XP
Post by: mnm1200 on January 17, 2005, 11:23:54 am: This is sort of the same as XPLite or LiteXP (whatever). Almost everything that this program does, you can do so manually.

That being said, I do like XPLite. It sped my WinXP startup to 17 seconds. I'm going to try this on a virtual machine and see what happens.
Title: Re: Improve Gaming in XP
Post by: RayB on January 17, 2005, 05:32:21 pm: hey Drew! Where'd you get your avatar?! I worked on that game!!!
Title: Re: Improve Gaming in XP
Post by: Arcadiac on January 17, 2005, 08:21:16 pm: READ IN BEFORE RUNNING THIS PROGRAM:
Spybot identified an attempted registry change while running this program. It attempted to install a browser hijack, the infamous "Search Assistant" modification. If you don't know what that is, Google it. I've dealt with this issue before, had to reformat my HD to get rid of it, very nasty program. Thought y'all should know. ARCADIAC!
Title: Re: Improve Gaming in XP
Post by: DrewKaree on January 17, 2005, 10:14:33 pm: Quote from: RayB on January 17, 2005, 05:32:21 pm
hey Drew! Where'd you get your avatar?! I worked on that game!!!

Ganked it. ;D

It's actually from someone else who got it from someone else who got it from....and so on
Title: Re: Improve Gaming in XP
Post by: Harry Potter on January 18, 2005, 11:14:41 am: Quote from: RayB on January 17, 2005, 05:32:21 pm
hey Drew! Where'd you get your avatar?! I worked on that game!!!

You worked on Coolspot? That was quite a decent game on the Amiga.

Any chance of a PS2 version ;D
Title: Re: Improve Gaming in XP
Post by: RayB on January 18, 2005, 03:40:04 pm: Quote from: bosss7 on January 18, 2005, 11:14:41 am
You worked on Coolspot? That was quite a decent game on the Amiga.

Any chance of a PS2 version
Title: Re: Improve Gaming in XP
Post by: Harry Potter on January 19, 2005, 03:46:09 am: No. Not the othello thing (whatever that is ???). The platform game where everything is humungus.
Title: Re: Improve Gaming in XP
Post by: Arcadiac on January 19, 2005, 11:49:32 am: Quote from: Arcadiac on January 17, 2005, 08:21:16 pm
READ IN BEFORE RUNNING THIS PROGRAM:
Spybot identified an attempted registry change while running this program. It attempted to install a browser hijack, the infamous "Search Assistant" modification. If you don't know what that is, Google it. I've dealt with this issue before, had to reformat my HD to get rid of it, very nasty program. Thought y'all should know. ARCADIAC!

HELLO is there anybody in here? The cool spot stuff is really neat but
please keep in mind that the thread originated by Drew (unintentionally I'm sure) passing on some software that has a form of browser hijack/spyware really should be addressed. I just dealt with a similar, more costly, issue here:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,30124.msg253427.html#msg253427
Some less tech savvy, like me, might not like the search assistant hijack that comes with this program. Maybe modify the first post so more folks would be aware?
Thanks all, ARCADIAC!
Title: Re: Improve Gaming in XP
Post by: Harry Potter on January 19, 2005, 11:56:56 am: Probably only comes in the free version. Still, any modern virus/spyware program should make a short process of it.

Sorry to hear about the dialer virus Arcadiac.