ptsigas

well, my pc has been formatted- both drives c and d. i have a paging file on both with the system managed- all drivers for pc uptodate.

cpu drivers, gpu etc etc. mobo sound.

now when i try to run a game..condemned or stalker or any actually it takes a long long time to load. stalker takes 4 min to load- i dont have any virus programs in the background. but i dont have any virus' because i do checks twice a week. i have nothing on that is bad.

i have windows xp with sp2.

defrag everyday- and i clean out my registryt via program. - when condemned finally loads it runs great- maxxed out everything aaX6 afX16 via crossfire- plus adaptive. \


i ran pc with/out overclock- same thing. i am updating my soudn once again to see if that does anything- and reinstalling cpu drivers just incase.

but it is very very odd that load times for windows are super fast and yet game is super slow- oh and ram is set to T1 not T2-

amd athlon 4400 dual core @2.5ghz
2gb ocz 4000 platinum
creative x-fi xtreme gamer edition (i have eax off just in case does nothing to help)
asus a8r mvp deluxe
2 1900 crossfire gpus..

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thanks will update soon

Dyre Straits

Two things come to mind:

1. I only have one Paging File and I put that on the non-Windows HD. That speeds things up. You really do NOT need a P/F on all of the HDDs.

2. Have you gotten the Dual Core Fix for AMD? Check on the motherboard drivers site for it.

Good luck!

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PangingJr

about the paging file performance... right there on the paging file setting panel applet it does not tell you what can be better than the default setting that the Windows has given you, which it created the first time you installed it. the paging file setting is there for a reason... but nevertheless, it does mean that you need to experiment it before you actually changed over and to use the new setting.

as most of you may already know that Windows XP/Vista paging file space can be splitted into multiple (paging) files, and these files can be stored on different location.
in most XP/Vista system, the paging file performance will always be increased when striping the paging file space across separate physical hard drives, however, the increasing of the performance will be more or less depending alot on the performance of the drives, volumes and/or partition that you use it to store each paging file.

if your Windows system uses only one hard drive then you can still tell that the paging file performance is (actually) increased or not when you moved it from the default location to another by doing some of the paging file perf. monitoring. you however cannot tell that easily just by assuming.

if your Windows system uses more than one hard drives then you can easily tell where is the best location on each hard drive that you will want to use it to store the splitted paging files. however, i will not get into this info as of now.

Judas

On windows XP, i install the CPU driver and the CPU Dual Core Optimiser from AMD, those both are a definite must.

Also check your bios version on the board... the symptoms your experiencing seem to be pre-502 issues. Asus's latest i beleive is a 703 bios, 602 is however available on the website. I highly suggest you flash the bios on that board if you haven't yet. And i highly suggest you learn how to before doing so.

Simpliest way is to download the bios file to a floppy drive, (a clean, fully formated floppy). Then restart and push the Combination of keys that starts the auto bios flash.

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