My PC is crap! :(

[yzf750r]

Right I have got into playing extreme Blast Billiards!

Now, when I turn my PC on and clean all memory, history etc, the game plays smoothly!

However, after a couple of games the balls seem to judder around the table, sometimes they run smoothly but mostly they done!

I know my PC isn't amazing, but can anyone tell me why this is, or what I could get / do to make my games work better!


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[veeeffarr]

Defrag your harddrive.

Could be the game writing temporary files as you play, a fragmented disc would cause seek times to go up, therefore juddering as it pauses to read data.

If you're just deleting stuff, you're just creating fragmented spaces which will have a cumulative effect on seek times.

It could also be your computer having a shit amount of ram therefore the game has to page to the hard drive instead. Not much you can do about that one but look on the net for page file defrag tools.

[yzf750r]

whats RAM? I know its memory, but is that when you go in to C drive, if so its 55GB!

I'll try defragging!
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04 zx10r with mods - 187.4bhp at the wheel! :o

[veeeffarr]

No,

That's Hard Disk Space, although if you have a low amount of RAM the operating system will write to the Hard Disk instead of RAM.

RAM is kind of like a Hard Disk, but it's lightning fast at storing at retrieving data. Data stored is only temporary, and is cleared out when you reboot the computer.

Obviously if all of your RAM is getting filled, writing to the Hard Disk instead is a sacrifice, as Hard Disk Read/Write times are massively slower than RAM.

If you right click "My computer" on the Desktop, and select "Properties" you will have an information page saying "System", "Registered To", etc.

If you look at the bottom right it will say something like:

Intel (R) Pentium (R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz
128 MB of RAM.

No prizes for guessing which one indicates how much RAM you have.

Toby

[yzf750r]

Hi Toby R, it says -

'Intel (R) Celeron (R) CPU 2.00GHZ'
'384MB of RAM'

Is this amount not good enough? Or could it be the game itself?
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04 zx10r with mods - 187.4bhp at the wheel! :o

[veeeffarr]