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What is a prefferable size of the swapfile with winXP2600 and 512Mb ram?

Im happy to say that now with 512Mb this problem is totally gone.

I play some QuakeIIIArena mods, mostly Urban Terror and True Combat. When playing the games its ok, all is fluid like butter. Its when I exit the game after some 1-2 hours of gaming, windows gets very slow. Windows and buttons take forever to load and sometimes it freezes.

Nothing major it seems, the biggest ones: IEXPLORE.EXE 7Mb EXPLORER.EXE 17Mb SVCHOST.EXE 14Mb ICQ.EXE 8Mb and a few smaller ones 1-3Mb Physical Memory (K) Total 261620 Available 128196 System Cache 141628 Totals Handles 5632 Threads 281 Processes 24 That´s not to much is it?

Since the nvidia refreshrate fix program doesn´t work with XP is there any way of manually manipulate the refreshrates through the registry?

EddiE314: I would have done that if nothing else worked, but since the nvrefreshfix installed fine and all games run at good refreshrates all is good. I also manipulated the registry and took out those unwanted refreshrates, and this way also works good I think.

Download the standalone AGPdriver: www.viahardware.com (If you have a mobo with a VIA Northbridge that is!)

Installing in win2000 compability mode worked great. Thanks for the tip!

I have some minor problems with WinXP RC1, maybe someone can assist me? *language bar not disabled even though I turn it off, pops up upon reboot and is enabled again *irq 7 for everything (irq steering OK, but EVERYTHING on irq 7?) *"hide taskbar item" enabled but irritating "reminder" still popping up telling me about hiding the menu items *local isp internet username/password not saved even though I check the box "save this username and password..." *when connected to the internet, "reminder" saying "you are now connected to...." (this reminderthing, how do I turn it off?) Thanks for any help

thanks for the info

Many of my games (seems most d3d games) jumps back to the desktop after a while. Just instantly Im at the desktop. And the thing is, the hdd reads for three/four seconds during this incident. I havent really been troubleshooting yet, but I still thought you could take a guess on what could be wrong. I was thinking maybe I have some service enabled that causes this. spec: slot-A Athlon 850Mhz Asus K7V (1007 final bios) Infineon 128Mb PC133 Prophet II 64Mb SB Live win2000pro DX8Final VIA IDE BM 2149 VIA AGP 403e Nvidia 6.34 Thanks for any advice.

My friend has great problems using his new HP 9110i in win2k. In device manager, it says "HP CD-Writer+ 9100", and regular cdrom usage is fine, but it just wont burn anything. Can you help us out? thanks for any info

Im not sure what is best with gaming in mind. My settings are almost every service set to manual. Event Log, Protected Storage, Plug n Play is set to automatic. What are your settings?

What setting works the best with games? Im guessing "Applications"?

Forgot to say; Q3A, Half-Life DONT crash to desktop. Games that DO crash: NHL2001 Sacrifice Real Myst 3D Virtual Pool 3 4x4 Evolution Games that DONT crash: Unreal Tournament Quake 3 Arena Delta Force 3 Monkey Island 4

I looked in the SBLive settings, and it was set one notch from the right already. I havent upgraded my SBLive drivers, Im running the default that comes with win2000pro. Maybe I should try and upgrade? The reason I didnt want to install the latest Liveware is the delay of the startuptime (toolbar) by approximatly 10 seconds on my system. But of course, if installing newer drivers can solve my problem, I will install them right away. My Ethernet card is in pci-slot 5, and SBLive is in slot 3. That didnt cause any problems before. I dont have many opengl games (Q3A, Half-Life and 4x4Evo), but crashes in 4x4Evo when running opengl also occur as with d3d (maybe its just a buggy game?) I mostly play Evo and VirtualPool 3, and both games kicks me back to the desktop. Virual Pool 3 is also running in d3d. What do you think?

No luck. This time (when playing 4x4 Evolution) the computer jumped out, and RESTARTED ! That´s a new one. Why is it restarting? (I have automatic restart disabled)

Thanks for all the support guys [img}http://www.ntcompatible.com/ubb/icons/icon14.gif[/img] I installed the Hercules 6.34 drivers, and for now, it seems to be fine. I didnt try for a longer period of time, but at least, for the last halv hour its been working out. Some more info on my settings: ram - cas2, also tried cas3 aperture size 64Mb ( tried them all ) VIO manually put to 3.56 (on Asus K7V) the via+agp+athlon win2k fix is applied I´ll be back if the problem isnt gone Thanks again

Ive been testing for a couple of hours now, still no change. Im at a loss here. Reinstall win2000 maybe? That is not very appealing, but if nothing else solves it I will do it. Do you guys have any more ideas what could be wrong here? thanks

Should I increase the pagefile size even more? The system says "190Mb" is recommended. thanks

*Antec 300W PS *300Mb for the pagefile pagefile on empty D: partition (15Gb) OS on C: (15Gb) *128Mb of PC133 ram The same thing happens with Graphicscard at default clockspeed (also CPU at default speed)

Someone said they got boosted performance, unlike the winme 7.17 drivers that degraded performance heavíly.

With dx8 and the nvidia beta 7.17 there is HUGE increase in performance. The games actually ran better with that configuration than dx8 / any winme driver I tried. The 7.xx drivers apparently fixes some agp problems in win2000. 3dmark2000 scores went up about 2000 points ! win2000 will be a great gaming platform, even if it wasnt indended to be. Looky here: http://www.overclockedcafe.com/articles.htm

What kind of videocard are we talking about? Maybe there are newer drivers for it?

I dont know the english word for the startup items loading in the "systray" ? (volume, graphicscard icon etc etc) Upon starup, everything goes very fast, until the "systray" is suppose to load, then the system halts for about 10 seconds before the icons appear. Why is this happening? I know someone blamed the SBLive icon (AudioHQ), but removing that doesnt change anything for me. Can someone help me solve this? thanks for any info