My best find EVER! Boost game performance by 80-90%!

speeduk · 30 Sep 2005 at 16:00

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Heres the story. I recently purchased everquest 2 but because windows sucks at managing memory it was VERY stuttery in towns etc. The fix in the link almost completely resolved the issue for me and I can play EQ2 @1280x1024 4xAA 8xAF on very high quality with hardly any pauses at all even in towns.

This is with just a gig of ram BTW. Its also supposed to help in games like Battlefield 2 but I have not tested it yet.

If the link is dead - google cacheman and download it.

First, before we get into tweaking WMM, there are a few things you should know.DO NOT use any of the wizards number one! DO NOT and I repeat, do not use the "RAM Recovery"!

This pushes essential windows files and proceses out of memory which is not good! The program will tell you it is, but all it takes is simple logic to know that this should not be done. We want the OS to be fast, because the game communicates with the OS and then the OS sends the info to the processor and video card. We do not want it to have to access the HDD for this!

Now to the optimizing! Click on the settings tab on the right side, then go to "RAM".Don't worry about anything else, this is where you need to be. Make sure that you uncheck the "enable" under the Recovery tab at the top. Now click the optimization tab at the top and check the boxes "Disable executive paging" and "unload DLL's from memory". You are now done with this area.

Now go back to the settings tab on the right hand side and click tweaks. Like I said before, do not adjust the IO page lock limit, ignore this feature. Check the box "disable NT last access update". Basically what this does is changes the date on a file after it is modified. This can reduce performance of your hard disk, especially if it is slow, or very full.

You are now done tweaking your memory! Go to File, Save settings, and then exit the program. The changes are permanent, so you can change the option to load every time windows starts if you'd like or uninstall the program

speeduk · 30 Sep 2005 at 16:33

sunlitsix said:
so is this just for everquest 2?

Nope. Its a general windows tweak that makes the memory management a lot more efficient so it should help in all games/apps that are memory intensive.

speeduk · 30 Sep 2005 at 17:06

Quick try on BF2 and its a lot more snappy now when starting a map. Also general load times especially on EQ2 are better. Areas were taking 40-50 seconds to load in EQ2 and they now take 30-40s.

speeduk · 30 Sep 2005 at 17:18

Tommy D said:
Think it would help with WoW?

It will only help in games that stutter or pause when moving to new areas etc due to poor memory allocation bla bla bla.

speeduk · 30 Sep 2005 at 17:26

Haly said:
You mean almost all games?

So I got a little excited when I found the fix.

EQ2 went from almost unplayable to uber smooth.

speeduk · 30 Sep 2005 at 20:51

Maybe we can get this stickied because its very useful.

speeduk · 30 Sep 2005 at 21:55

masterk said:
Fair enough, but i wouldnt recommend people who dont fully understand the implications of this to try it on their main system.

Implications? Faster loading times? Faster game performance? I havn't had any problems 3 hours non stop EQ2 gaming.

Wanna spell the implications out for us noobs?

speeduk · 30 Sep 2005 at 23:55

I think there could be some issues on some systems but everyone I have talked to that has used the tweak has had no problems. I will keep my eye on things though (like usual).

So far BF2(apart from some lag - not related to the tweak) and EQ2, movies and mp3's all work fine.

speeduk · 1 Oct 2005 at 15:03

xe-cute said:
i'm in two minds wether to try this due to the mixed responses.

has anyone new trying it actually had any problems since posting here?

I have a radeon 9700 pro.

Still fine here. (touch wood)

speeduk · 2 Oct 2005 at 10:30

Vundu said:
This is a Windows 2000 tweak, Microsoft advised has no effect with XP.

Well I went from a totally unplayable harbor in EQ2 (10 seconds smooth then 20 second pauses) to 20 seconds smooth 3 second pauses. Also the other towns always were 10 seconds or so smooth then 5 second pauses or longer and now they are almost completely smooth.

Its like I have an extra 512mb ram. BF2 has almost no stuttering now where as before it would stutter when going to other areas of the map.

speeduk · 8 Oct 2005 at 00:25

Ultra_Extreme said:
hey the linky's dead could someone tell me what it is/where to get it?

Works ok now.

speeduk · 8 Oct 2005 at 10:13

sam garland said:
yes using I'm using the 81.82 beta drivers. Runs great with everything set to highest possible.I'm getting really high FPS but I get this jolt then the frame rate drops to say about 40 from 80 for a second and everything pauses. It happens most of the time when I'm just walking and around and not much action is happening.Then it goes back to normal with FPS over 100. I did a search on google and it seems it's a common problem but I couldn't find a solution.

I think its a problem with the audigy 2. Have you got the latest drivers for the motherboard and sound card?