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01-27-2001, 11:47 PM

I'm not sure, the sound card might be an issue. I am real big into flight sims, they take a huge system hit. GL froze you up... huumm thats not good. Lets see here, I'd look for the latest drivers for your vid & sound card. install them, delete your temp files, defrag the drive. After thats done here are the basic system tweaks that most flight sim addicts use.

Step 1. go to my computer click it, then click on control panel.

Step 2. Now click system icon, then preformance tab.

Step 3. Then click file system button, click on hard drive tab, slide the read ahead opt slider to fastest. Close that panel

Step 4. got to grafics slide the slider all the way to fastest close that window.

Step 5. Now click virtual memory button. There will be radio buttons that say "let me specify virtual memory settings" choose it.

Step 6. You will see how much space is available on your HD. Set the min to a respectable size 1000megs.
There will be a warnig that you are doing something bad, after you click ok- don't be scared you can always come back and change it. Click yes and then do a restart.

Try out the game, see what it does. Those are the standard what I call "Geek fixes". They should get a little more out of your system.

Another big, factor is how many twains you have loaded. Before starting IWD press control- alt- delete. This will bring up a box with all the programs running on your system. END TASK everything but explorer, and systray. That will free up your processor making the game run faster. It could be a matter of how fast of a Hard drive you have as well. Or your CD-rom. If you have a cd rom thats less than 24x I'd grab the no-cd fix at Gamecopyworld.com and let my hard drive handle the PCI bus detail
See how that works for ya- if you still have troubles- give me an e-mail Tathlum@go.com

Leafy, using a secondary drive for Vmem could be a problem unless you have a scuzy Hard drives. 9 times out of 10, the virtual memory has to be on the primary drive with windows. Or did I misunderstand? You have 2 static swap files? one one each hard drive? In that case I believe IWD's default cache system will access the swap file on what ever drive its installed onto. I havent seen anything about being able to change the config in IWD to make it access another dirve for virtual memory.

01-27-2001, 11:47 PM	#7
Tathlum Guest Posts: n/a	I'm not sure, the sound card might be an issue. I am real big into flight sims, they take a huge system hit. GL froze you up... huumm thats not good. Lets see here, I'd look for the latest drivers for your vid & sound card. install them, delete your temp files, defrag the drive. After thats done here are the basic system tweaks that most flight sim addicts use. Step 1. go to my computer click it, then click on control panel. Step 2. Now click system icon, then preformance tab. Step 3. Then click file system button, click on hard drive tab, slide the read ahead opt slider to fastest. Close that panel Step 4. got to grafics slide the slider all the way to fastest close that window. Step 5. Now click virtual memory button. There will be radio buttons that say "let me specify virtual memory settings" choose it. Step 6. You will see how much space is available on your HD. Set the min to a respectable size 1000megs. There will be a warnig that you are doing something bad, after you click ok- don't be scared you can always come back and change it. Click yes and then do a restart. Try out the game, see what it does. Those are the standard what I call "Geek fixes". They should get a little more out of your system. Another big, factor is how many twains you have loaded. Before starting IWD press control- alt- delete. This will bring up a box with all the programs running on your system. END TASK everything but explorer, and systray. That will free up your processor making the game run faster. It could be a matter of how fast of a Hard drive you have as well. Or your CD-rom. If you have a cd rom thats less than 24x I'd grab the no-cd fix at Gamecopyworld.com and let my hard drive handle the PCI bus detail See how that works for ya- if you still have troubles- give me an e-mail Tathlum@go.com Leafy, using a secondary drive for Vmem could be a problem unless you have a scuzy Hard drives. 9 times out of 10, the virtual memory has to be on the primary drive with windows. Or did I misunderstand? You have 2 static swap files? one one each hard drive? In that case I believe IWD's default cache system will access the swap file on what ever drive its installed onto. I havent seen anything about being able to change the config in IWD to make it access another dirve for virtual memory.