OT: Want to speed up your system BIGTIME?

[SHS]

Win2000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\PriorityControl]
"IRQ8Priority"=dword:00000001

At first I thougth was just another one thoses lame tweak so I take a shot in dark and try it what heck with all system problem I
had last week let see what eles I can broke this week hehe but after run this a bit WoW I did see speed up in just everything.
I like thank Christoph for this one.

[rasch]

Curious ...

irq 8 is the system cmos/realtime clock on my system ... I don't think giving my clock a higher priority would speed my machine.

What's on your irq 8?

[SHS]

truth me I thougth the same thing to just likeyou but I can in sure you it really works.

[2pac]

SHS,

Will this work with any OS, or it just for WIN2000?

[TIbrO]

What exactly does this do, anyway?
Like, I mean explain to me exactly what this registry change does to make my system faster... I am on Windows XP, which is just Windows 2000 with a makeover and a third service pack. I wouldn't add this to my registry unless I knew exactly what it did and how it did make my system faster.

[shochan]

WUSSS!!! J/K Well hell you know where its at if it causes any problems take it out.. easy as 123.. I went ahead and did it now im gonna reboot to see if there is any diferance.

[TIbrO]

Hehe... I hate rebooting and not being allowed to re-enter the OS... Windows NT is ghetto like that!
I am very careful now of what I do to vital system things now! Hehe...
NT rarely crashes... but when it does crash, it's not a smalltime crash.

[TIbrO]

Well... I also did it. I have ACPI enabled so like my IRQs are unknown to me. I wonder what I have on IRQ 8...

[TIbrO]

Hmmm... turns out I do have my system CMOS clock on IRQ 8. Is there any task in particular that I am supposed to see this huge speed increase in?

[speedy]

Messing with Registry settings is foolish if you don't know what you're doing and can totally corrupt your system. Proceed with caution.

The "trick" mentioned in this thread assigns extra CPU cycles to applications which should give some performance gain to intensive tasks like rendering.

That "trick" and many others along with what they do and how they work can be found at the link following. I assume no responsibility for anyone messing up their system. If you have doubts... don't!

Of course you'll make a backup of your Registry and other key files BEFORE trying any of the following.

http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/axcel216/newtip.htm#HOME

The "trick" discussed in this thread:

http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/axcel216/newtip21.htm#RTP

[hence]

does this affect cpu temperature or stability in any way?

[d4n13l]

This hack will just increase the priority level given to running tasks, thats all. This is an option that Windoze has lacked whereas all Linux/UNIX OSes have this as a standard feature. As this doesnt physically make your CPU go any faster (ie. overclock), I cant see how it would affect the stability of your system. It will not cause your CPU to go any more above the normal operating temperature when it is under full load. It is just as speedy said: it just assigns more CPU cycles to running tasks, that's all.
A nice hack.

[shochan]

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Messing with Registry settings is foolish if you don't know what you're doing and can totally corrupt your system.
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Hah! Who gives a crap if it's foolish, How the hell are you supposed to learn without mistakes? Doing anything you don't know how to on a cumputer, or even when you turn it on you stand a chance of lovein it up. So drop The registry god complex because the only thing it does is make you look foolish.

PS Thanks for the links!

Shochan

[speedy]

The person that will give a crap is the person that lost his system and has to reinstall his operating system.

I much rather scare someone into not doing something than to have a dozen people bitching and yelling because they leaped head first into doing something they don't know about and ended up trashing their system in the process.

Tinkering with Registery settings is somewhat like playing Russian roulette with a loaded revoler. You do it long enough, you'll be sorry. The site I offered does have a nice collection of tips or I would not have offered it. However, saying to proceed with caution is appropriate.

[d4n13l]

HEY shochan!!! easy on my pal speedy will you?
True, Win9x is more likely to commit suicide all by itself, more likely to kill it than a bit of reg hacking. LOL
Besides, you can just revert back to the last reg settings... if I could just remember the DOS switch to do it...
oh yeah:
scanreg /restore
That'll fix it anyway (...should fix it, it's Win9x after all, hehe).
I couldnt give rats ass if I mess up the registry; sh1t happens. Mind you, Ive never messed it up to date (which is surprising) and I do know what Im doing which kind of helps. I have a full backup CD at hand if all else fails anyway - Its good to reinstall occasionally, ESPECIALLY if you have Win9x.

Proceed with caution is a good tip for those who do care about their system.

P.S.
Yeah, thanks for the links speedster: I downloaded the zip. Nice site.

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[shochan]

Nah Im just messin, I've never been mean on the board really so I thought I would try it once. No hard feelins I hope! I myself also have never messed it up that bad and if i did I would just reinstall and not do it again.

If at first you dont succeed re-install and re-install again!

I have problems will all M$'s crap. Right now i can't install the aspi layer at all It all goes in and it still doesn't work even after the reboot. Im gonna try to update my 4in1 again to see if that works.

Does anyone know if tmpge is gong to be ported to linux?

Shochan

[d4n13l]

I hope to God that there will eventually be TMPEG for Linux. Then I could escape the Windoze vicious circle forever. Well, take one leg out of the shackles at least...

[TIbrO]

So if I go encode something right now, it should go faster than it used to go?
Hehe...
windows 2K and Windows XP have a checkbox up in one of the menus in the control panel that lets you choose priorities like that. I had set mine to active applications already. So maybe that registry entry I just made is redundant and will do nothing to my performance.