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Friday, April 13, 2007

Optimize your PC for gaming

You can have the best, fastest PC available and still find you’re having troubles running games if you don’t spend time optimizing your system to get the best possible gaming experience.

Programs that have been running can cause your PC to run slower than it should because they take up memory and don’t clean up properly after themselves. You might not notice this effect normally but when you try to play a game where every second counts, the effect becomes noticeable.

A PC that’s not been defragged regularly will also become slow over time. This is because the data is spread across the hard drive. This has two negative effects of performance:
  • The system has to work harder to find files because they are scattered over the surface of the drive (even a single file can be made up of lots of smaller fragments).
  • The system has to work harder to find space on the disk to write new files.

Regular defragging can have a huge positive effect on your PC.

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