Ramdrive tweaks for network speed boost

cypher_138 · May 6, 2004, 09:26 PM

[color=red]The following guide is geard towards to those with a minium of 512MB of RAM (1GB is ideal) Please back up your registry prior to attempting it .[/color]

I've been using this and have noticed lower latency and more speed in general on line and figured I'd share it

The first tweak is from over here:

dslnuts

It was modified to work in XP as defined bellow.

You'll want to back up your registry before doing this and have 512 or more RAM for it to be useful.

First you need to make a Ramdrive. I'm using this one myself,
Ramdisk

I left everything default except the size of the drive,(I set mine to 65MB) and selected emulate local hard disk for operating mode. Leaving it as Ramdrive made it inaccessible.

Now go to run>regedit and go to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\
CurrentControlSet\Services

From there you want to find
afd
netbt
tcpip
ipnat
In each of those change the image path to your Ramdisk, (Z: is the default).
\??\Z:\<service name>
For afd it would look like
\??\Z:\afd.sys

Once you do that for all the above services you may also want to put your cookies and history there as well. This will delete your history and cookies whenever you reboot and is not required. The best way to do that is to use "find" in the registry to search for Cookies since history is in the same location.
You want to change the image path for both of these to Z:\Cookies. The same for the history. Search for all instances of these two files. I believe there are three in XP.

Now take the following script, (courtesy of Micro from Cablenut) and copy it to notepad:

@echo on

Echo Starting TCP/IP Services

copy c:\windows\System32\DRIVERS\afd.sys z:\
copy c:\windows\System32\DRIVERS\netbt.sys z:\
copy c:\windows\System32\DRIVERS\tcpip.sys z:\
copy c:\windows\System32\DRIVERS\ipnat.sys z:\

net start afd
net start netbt
net start tcpip
net start ipnat

Save it as "login.cmd" and put it in root, (C:\ drive is default.)
Drag and drop this now over to your start-up folder so it loads the script automatically on start-up.
*If your system drive is other than C:\ rename it accordingly in the above script.

Before you reboot open a browser, select tools>internet options>settings. Adjust it to the desired size (50MB works fine)
Select "Move folder" and point it at your Ramdrive, hit OK than apply.

Windows will than tell you you have to log off. Instead reboot you computer.
That's pretty much it.

What we've done here is:
Put your TCPIP stack, network drivers, Cookies, History and Temporary Internet files in to a Ram drive.
Since Ram is faster than a HD it speeds everything up a bit. When you reboot your system it also clears your temporary internet, cookies and history files.

I hope you guys enjoy this as much as I am.

cypher_138 · May 8, 2004, 05:28 AM

Anyone here try this yet?

cypher_138 · Jun 21, 2004, 02:39 AM

Just an update for those using Mozilla or Firefox

For Mozilla go to
Preferences>advanced>cache
And simplily select the Ramdrive.

Firefox requirers you to add the following line to your user.js

// Path to Cache folder:
user_pref("browser.cache.disk.parent_directory","Z :\\FF_Cache");

This is located here
C:\Documents and Settings\<user_name>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\default.s8g\user.js

While you're there might as well add this on to speed up pageload times.

// This one makes a huge difference. Last value in milliseconds (default is 250)
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0);

ctrl+s and your good to go.

The_Neon_Cowboy · Jun 21, 2004, 09:39 AM

DSL tweak Iâ€™d personally steer clear off...

Each connection will be better off manually tweaked or left alone. The wrong setting can cause degradation not improvement. Every bodysconnections even on the same service can a will differ slightly. Which each little difference = a setting that should be differentâ€¦Also there is a fine balance between latency and through put. For example one setting maybe better for gaming but another for downloading.

As for the Ram drive I assuming this is based on the windows XP/2000 beta ram â€œdriveâ€œâ€¦If this is not Iâ€™d recommend people try the Microsoft provided ram drive it works great but there are size limitations with the Microsoft provided driver.

People should be aware using a ram drive with you browser maybe slightly faster but a ram drive takes away from your total system memory thus reducing performance while gaming! Or doing anything that might need that memory especially video/audio encoding/decodingâ€¦ Also people should understand what ever is saved on a ram drive will be deleted should they reboot or turn off their pc. It would be annoying at lest to me. I wonâ€™t be able to auto login at site like DH etc that use cookies to save info. After I reboot Iâ€™d have to re loginâ€¦

For the rest I simply donâ€™t know, but this is not for novice users I have a feeling some one could Bork their system trying this â€¦ Iâ€™m not meaning to take a dump on your thread. But I should remind users they should back up any critical data before attempting anything like thisâ€¦

best wishes

cypher_138 · Jun 21, 2004, 09:43 PM

Hi Neon,
I appreciate the feedback and disclaimer. I'll go back and edit my initial post to provide forewarning and revise it a bit.
The above is'nt a DSL tweak. It just puts your stack and nic .sys files in RAM.. Cookies, temporary internet files and history are optional. Makes a big speed difference when online gaming.

DSL tweak wise I use this http://www.speedguide.net/files/TCPOptimizer.exe
I set it to custom> modify all network adaptersl>I leave RWIN blank in XP so the stack will auto adjust itself and set max browser connections to 20/10.
You are right in that it's not a one size fits all type of deal. This guide will help you to find your best settings for your particular setup. It's very insightfull.
http://forums.speedguide.net/showthread.php?t=73799

germanjulian · Jul 21, 2004, 04:44 PM

this wont give you lower latencies. this wont improve your internet connection. all this will do is make surfing the web a little bit faster.

Shadow Lady · Jul 22, 2004, 01:29 AM

do we really need to navigate the web faster?

Falstaff · Jul 31, 2004, 09:54 AM

cant believe I missed this one..thanx

cypher_138 · Aug 14, 2004, 04:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fallang_jeff

cant believe I missed this one..thanx

I'm glad you like it.

I'm still trying to see the impact SP2 has on this tweak. Are you running it with SP2?

MythicaL · Aug 14, 2004, 08:31 AM

Works fine on SP2

cypher_138 · Aug 14, 2004, 06:41 PM

Yeah it does seem to be working fine. I just wanted to check it out due to the changes SP2 made to the stack. Thanks for the heads up mYthicaL.

MythicaL · Aug 15, 2004, 11:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cypher_138

Yeah it does seem to be working fine. I just wanted to check it out due to the changes SP2 made to the stack. Thanks for the heads up mYthicaL.

Kein problem

Falstaff · Aug 31, 2004, 05:13 AM

I am looking for a plain old modem tweak for dialup. Using AOL on my dads box, and he suffers from the 9.0 double buffering problem..lol..any ideas?

WisMerHill · Aug 31, 2004, 09:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fallang_jeff

I am looking for a plain old modem tweak for dialup. Using AOL on my dads box, and he suffers from the 9.0 double buffering problem..lol..any ideas?

http://www.tweak3d.net/tweak/win2kmodem/ for w2k but should be the same for XP

http://www.tweak3d.net/tweak/modem/ for Win9X

http://www.dansdata.com/sbs33.htm General

http://www.beemerworld.com/tips/contweak.htm Win98 mostly

http://forums.speedguide.net/showthr...ght=56k+tweaks

ChoGGi · Sep 22, 2004, 05:34 PM

hey cypher_138 you can use this instead

copy c:\windows\System32\DRIVERS\afd.sys z:\
copy c:\windows\System32\DRIVERS\netbt.sys z:\
copy c:\windows\System32\DRIVERS\tcpip.sys z:\
copy c:\windows\System32\DRIVERS\ipnat.sys z:\

copy %SystemRoot%\System32\DRIVERS\afd.sys z:\
copy %SystemRoot%\System32\DRIVERS\netbt.sys z:\
copy %SystemRoot%\System32\DRIVERS\tcpip.sys z:\
copy %SystemRoot%\System32\DRIVERS\ipnat.sys z:\

then it doesnt matter which drive win is on (not sure if this works for win9x)

ariel_starboard · Sep 30, 2004, 08:26 PM

hello cypher_138,

have you tried this tweak on Windows Server 2003? i try this on a win2k3 enterprise but
tcpip.sys won't start. so i have no network connection. I've always got this error on my event viewer once i try this tweak.

[color=yellow]The TCP/IP Protocol Driver service failed to start due to the following error: [/color]
[color=yellow]Cannot create a file when that file already exists. [/color]

i hope you can help me on this.
thanks

Quote:

Originally Posted by cypher_138

[color=red]The following guide is geard towards to those with a minium of 512MB of RAM (1GB is ideal) Please back up your registry prior to attempting it .[/color]

I've been using this and have noticed lower latency and more speed in general on line and figured I'd share it

The first tweak is from over here:

dslnuts

It was modified to work in XP as defined bellow.

You'll want to back up your registry before doing this and have 512 or more RAM for it to be useful.

First you need to make a Ramdrive. I'm using this one myself,
Ramdisk

I left everything default except the size of the drive,(I set mine to 65MB) and selected emulate local hard disk for operating mode. Leaving it as Ramdrive made it inaccessible.

Now go to run>regedit and go to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\
CurrentControlSet\Services

From there you want to find
afd
netbt
tcpip
ipnat
In each of those change the image path to your Ramdisk, (Z: is the default).
\??\Z:\<service name>
For afd it would look like
\??\Z:\afd.sys

Once you do that for all the above services you may also want to put your cookies and history there as well. This will delete your history and cookies whenever you reboot and is not required. The best way to do that is to use "find" in the registry to search for Cookies since history is in the same location.
You want to change the image path for both of these to Z:\Cookies. The same for the history. Search for all instances of these two files. I believe there are three in XP.

Now take the following script, (courtesy of Micro from Cablenut) and copy it to notepad:

@echo on

Echo Starting TCP/IP Services

copy c:\windows\System32\DRIVERS\afd.sys z:\
copy c:\windows\System32\DRIVERS\netbt.sys z:\
copy c:\windows\System32\DRIVERS\tcpip.sys z:\
copy c:\windows\System32\DRIVERS\ipnat.sys z:\

net start afd
net start netbt
net start tcpip
net start ipnat

Save it as "login.cmd" and put it in root, (C:\ drive is default.)
Drag and drop this now over to your start-up folder so it loads the script automatically on start-up.
*If your system drive is other than C:\ rename it accordingly in the above script.

Before you reboot open a browser, select tools>internet options>settings. Adjust it to the desired size (50MB works fine)
Select "Move folder" and point it at your Ramdrive, hit OK than apply.

Windows will than tell you you have to log off. Instead reboot you computer.
That's pretty much it.

What we've done here is:
Put your TCPIP stack, network drivers, Cookies, History and Temporary Internet files in to a Ram drive.
Since Ram is faster than a HD it speeds everything up a bit. When you reboot your system it also clears your temporary internet, cookies and history files.

I hope you guys enjoy this as much as I am.

Skrov · Oct 3, 2004, 01:28 AM

Did not get it to work though looked around and found another guide at http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=131 where they use a .bat file extension and add \??\ like this : [color=#cc0000]ImagePath = \??\Z:\tcpip.sys[/color] for every altered imagePath and it worked for me

Ifixit · Aug 17, 2005, 09:35 AM

Cheers this is a nice bit of tweaking wd.

Worked for me on xp service pack 2 with 1gb ram. Had to search for ramdrive your link seems bad now.

Also \??\ was funny looking and i did not put the registry links as you had it thinking it was wrong. After i made the regisrty imagepath \??\Z:\<filename> it worked sweet as.

I only made a 15mb ramdisk as the 4 files really don't take up much space i think even a lowly 256 mb of ram system could handle it.

I shaved 2 ms of my ase pings to the game server so i'm pleased. Hopeing for better actually in game.

Thanks dude and once again wd

DH and ATI Rock

conglacio · Oct 24, 2005, 03:20 PM

mmm...saw this page from a web search....

decided to try this, but...
though the files are sent to the ram drive ok (drive letter R)
the PC seems to think it has no network when I boot up with the reg settings as listed in the above posts...(with the drive letter changed)

eg,
for
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\AFD
I changed ImagePath from
\SystemRoot\System32\drivers\afd.sys
to
\??\R:\afd.sys

I had thought the \??\ was just stuff that you are supposed to change to suit your system, but a post in this thread says otherwise, so I left them in...#

any tips on working out what I did wrong?

ChoGGi · Oct 25, 2005, 12:34 AM

sounds like these arent running
net start afd
net start netbt
net start tcpip
net start ipnat
try running one of them manually from a dosbox and see what it says

conglacio · Oct 25, 2005, 02:40 AM

mm...they should be running...at least, the .sys file is where it is supposed to be....
give me a sec to swap reg settings and I will check....

conglacio · Oct 25, 2005, 03:16 AM

Ok, here is what I got...(including 2 commands I ran after that..)
D:\Documents and Settings\Dave>net start afd
The requested service has already been started.

More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2182.

D:\Documents and Settings\Dave>NET HELPMSG 2182

The requested service has already been started.

EXPLANATION

You tried to start a service that is already running.

ACTION

To display a list of active services, type:

NET START

D:\Documents and Settings\Dave>net start
These Windows services are started:

AVG7 Alert Manager Server
AVG7 Update Service
COM+ Event System
Computer Browser
Cryptographic Services
DCOM Server Process Launcher
Distributed Link Tracking Client
Error Reporting Service
Event Log
FAH@D:+Program Files+Folding@Home+FAH502-Console.exe
Help and Support
Human Interface Device Access
Network Connections
NVIDIA Display Driver Service
Plug and Play
Print Spooler
Protected Storage
Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Locator
Security Center
Server
Shell Hardware Detection
System Event Notification
System Restore Service
Task Scheduler
Terminal Services
WebClient
Windows Audio
Windows Image Acquisition (WIA)
Windows Management Instrumentation
Windows Time
Wireless Zero Configuration
Workstation

The command completed successfully.

conglacio · Oct 25, 2005, 03:19 AM

interestingly enough, as I was booting up with the normal reg settings, so I could post this, I noticed 2 dos boxes coming up for less then a second....I decided to ad a pause to the .bat file that I was using, to see what those boxes said...this is what they say...

----box 1----

D:\>Echo Starting TCP/IP Services
Starting TCP/IP Services

D:\>copy D:\WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\afd.sys r:\
1 file(s) copied.

D:\>copy D:\WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\netbt.sys r:\
The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process
0 file(s) copied.

D:\>copy D:\WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\tcpip.sys r:\
1 file(s) copied.

D:\>copy D:\WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\ipnat.sys r:\
1 file(s) copied.

D:\>net start afd
The requested service has already been started.

More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2182.

----box 2----

D:\>Echo Starting TCP/IP Services
Starting TCP/IP Services

D:\>copy D:\WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\afd.sys r:\
1 file(s) copied.

D:\>copy D:\WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\netbt.sys r:\
1 file(s) copied.

D:\>copy D:\WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\tcpip.sys r:\
The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.
0 file(s) copied.

D:\>copy D:\WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\ipnat.sys r:\
The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.
0 file(s) copied.

D:\>net start afd
The requested service has already been started.

More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2182.

ChoGGi · Oct 25, 2005, 03:44 AM

going by what i can see you've made it a bit too complicated or maybe its just running a few times? check your startup locations

edit: could you post the bat file your using?

conglacio · Oct 25, 2005, 04:14 AM

well, I only remember putting it into the startup folder...I removed the shortcut from there, and found that the file did not run
with the modded reg settings, the first 2 services did not show as running when I started them up seperatly in the dos box

the batch file is

@echo on

Echo Starting TCP/IP Services

copy D:\WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\afd.sys r:\
copy D:\WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\netbt.sys r:\
copy D:\WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\tcpip.sys r:\
copy D:\WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\ipnat.sys r:\

net start afd
net start netbt
net start tcpip
net start ipnat

ChoGGi · Oct 25, 2005, 04:17 AM

try putting net start tcpip first instead of net start afd
you can use startupcpl to see whats starting
http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

conglacio · Oct 25, 2005, 04:51 AM

changed it round, and the first 3 start ok, the last says it is allready running.

*retiring for night...will be back tomorrow*

thanks for the help so far!

ChoGGi · Oct 25, 2005, 04:27 PM

check the registry one more time just to make sure you typed in the locations right

conglacio · Oct 25, 2005, 09:25 PM

ok, just loaded up that reg backup.....

\??\R:\tcpip.sys

the other 3 have the same format

ChoGGi · Oct 25, 2005, 09:33 PM

well i only got this working yesterday (had a clean install figured i might as well try it) so i'm basically out of ideas

i have them starting in this order (i dont have netbt there because it doesnt run normally so no sense in me running it)
tcpip
afd
ipnat

you could try copying the files from elsewhere instead of the driver folder (i have to do that for x64 or else the file redirection crap kicks in), probably wont make a difference though.

May 6, 2004, 09:26 PM	#1
cypher_138 Watching 1984 unfold Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Locked in a cage in some warehouse called NJ Posts: 235 Rep Power: 0	Ramdrive tweaks for network speed boost [color=red]The following guide is geard towards to those with a minium of 512MB of RAM (1GB is ideal) Please back up your registry prior to attempting it .[/color] I've been using this and have noticed lower latency and more speed in general on line and figured I'd share it The first tweak is from over here: dslnuts It was modified to work in XP as defined bellow. You'll want to back up your registry before doing this and have 512 or more RAM for it to be useful. First you need to make a Ramdrive. I'm using this one myself, Ramdisk I left everything default except the size of the drive,(I set mine to 65MB) and selected emulate local hard disk for operating mode. Leaving it as Ramdrive made it inaccessible. Now go to run>regedit and go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ CurrentControlSet\Services From there you want to find afd netbt tcpip ipnat In each of those change the image path to your Ramdisk, (Z: is the default). \??\Z:\<service name> For afd it would look like \??\Z:\afd.sys Once you do that for all the above services you may also want to put your cookies and history there as well. This will delete your history and cookies whenever you reboot and is not required. The best way to do that is to use "find" in the registry to search for Cookies since history is in the same location. You want to change the image path for both of these to Z:\Cookies. The same for the history. Search for all instances of these two files. I believe there are three in XP. Now take the following script, (courtesy of Micro from Cablenut) and copy it to notepad: @echo on Echo Starting TCP/IP Services copy c:\windows\System32\DRIVERS\afd.sys z:\ copy c:\windows\System32\DRIVERS\netbt.sys z:\ copy c:\windows\System32\DRIVERS\tcpip.sys z:\ copy c:\windows\System32\DRIVERS\ipnat.sys z:\ net start afd net start netbt net start tcpip net start ipnat Save it as "login.cmd" and put it in root, (C:\ drive is default.) Drag and drop this now over to your start-up folder so it loads the script automatically on start-up. If your system drive is other than C:\ rename it accordingly in the above script. Before you reboot open a browser, select tools>internet options>settings. Adjust it to the desired size (50MB works fine) Select "Move folder" and point it at your Ramdrive, hit OK than apply. Windows will than tell you you have to log off. Instead reboot you computer. That's pretty much it. What we've done here is: Put your TCPIP stack, network drivers, Cookies, History and Temporary Internet files in to a Ram drive. Since Ram is faster than a HD it speeds everything up a bit. When you reboot your system it also clears your temporary internet, cookies and history files. I hope you guys enjoy this as much as I am. __________________ This is my "sig". There are many like them but this one is mine. Last edited by cypher_138; Aug 14, 2004 at 06:41 PM.*

May 8, 2004, 05:28 AM	Thread Starter #2
cypher_138 Watching 1984 unfold Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Locked in a cage in some warehouse called NJ Posts: 235 Rep Power: 0	Anyone here try this yet? __________________ This is my "sig". There are many like them but this one is mine.

Jun 21, 2004, 02:39 AM	Thread Starter #3
cypher_138 Watching 1984 unfold Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Locked in a cage in some warehouse called NJ Posts: 235 Rep Power: 0	Just an update for those using Mozilla or Firefox For Mozilla go to Preferences>advanced>cache And simplily select the Ramdrive. Firefox requirers you to add the following line to your user.js // Path to Cache folder: user_pref("browser.cache.disk.parent_directory","Z :\\FF_Cache"); This is located here C:\Documents and Settings\<user_name>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\default.s8g\user.js While you're there might as well add this on to speed up pageload times. // This one makes a huge difference. Last value in milliseconds (default is 250) user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0); ctrl+s and your good to go. __________________ This is my "sig". There are many like them but this one is mine.

Jun 21, 2004, 09:39 AM	#4
The_Neon_Cowboy HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: U.S.A. Posts: 16,009 Rep Power: 90 System Specs	DSL tweak Iâ€™d personally steer clear off... Each connection will be better off manually tweaked or left alone. The wrong setting can cause degradation not improvement. Every bodysconnections even on the same service can a will differ slightly. Which each little difference = a setting that should be differentâ€¦Also there is a fine balance between latency and through put. For example one setting maybe better for gaming but another for downloading. As for the Ram drive I assuming this is based on the windows XP/2000 beta ram â€œdriveâ€œâ€¦If this is not Iâ€™d recommend people try the Microsoft provided ram drive it works great but there are size limitations with the Microsoft provided driver. People should be aware using a ram drive with you browser maybe slightly faster but a ram drive takes away from your total system memory thus reducing performance while gaming! Or doing anything that might need that memory especially video/audio encoding/decodingâ€¦ Also people should understand what ever is saved on a ram drive will be deleted should they reboot or turn off their pc. It would be annoying at lest to me. I wonâ€™t be able to auto login at site like DH etc that use cookies to save info. After I reboot Iâ€™d have to re loginâ€¦ For the rest I simply donâ€™t know, but this is not for novice users I have a feeling some one could Bork their system trying this â€¦ Iâ€™m not meaning to take a dump on your thread. But I should remind users they should back up any critical data before attempting anything like thisâ€¦ best wishes __________________ Last edited by The_Neon_Cowboy; Jun 21, 2004 at 09:46 AM.

Jun 21, 2004, 09:43 PM	Thread Starter #5
cypher_138 Watching 1984 unfold Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Locked in a cage in some warehouse called NJ Posts: 235 Rep Power: 0	Hi Neon, I appreciate the feedback and disclaimer. I'll go back and edit my initial post to provide forewarning and revise it a bit. The above is'nt a DSL tweak. It just puts your stack and nic .sys files in RAM.. Cookies, temporary internet files and history are optional. Makes a big speed difference when online gaming. DSL tweak wise I use this http://www.speedguide.net/files/TCPOptimizer.exe I set it to custom> modify all network adaptersl>I leave RWIN blank in XP so the stack will auto adjust itself and set max browser connections to 20/10. You are right in that it's not a one size fits all type of deal. This guide will help you to find your best settings for your particular setup. It's very insightfull. http://forums.speedguide.net/showthread.php?t=73799 __________________ This is my "sig". There are many like them but this one is mine.

Jul 21, 2004, 04:44 PM	#6
germanjulian Back in London Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: London Posts: 1,797 Rep Power: 0	this wont give you lower latencies. this wont improve your internet connection. all this will do is make surfing the web a little bit faster. __________________ /\|\ Asus P5W DH Deluxe, Intel C2D E6600, 2GB Corsair XMS2-6400C4 DDR2, E-VGA GeForce 7800 GT, Creative X-Fi Extreme Music, 500GB Seagate 7200.10 SATA, Lian Li PC-V1100 Aluminum Case Black, etc. http://germanjulian.com /\|\

Jul 22, 2004, 01:29 AM	#7
Shadow Lady Avril Fan Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: somewhere in colombia, okok, bogotÃ¡ city :p Posts: 1,262 Rep Power: 0	do we really need to navigate the web faster? __________________ Oblivion ftw

Jul 31, 2004, 09:54 AM	#8
Falstaff Old Codger Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: USAFA Posts: 19,047 Rep Power: 206	cant believe I missed this one..thanx __________________ "Inspiration is always a surprising visitor."

Aug 14, 2004, 08:31 AM	#10
MythicaL I like computers. Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: In front of a monitor Posts: 3,399 Rep Power: 87 System Specs	Works fine on SP2 __________________ Always knew I didn't belong in this world. I wasn't made for this. But I'll never forget those who betrayed me, and those who never failed my trust.

Aug 14, 2004, 06:41 PM	Thread Starter #11
cypher_138 Watching 1984 unfold Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Locked in a cage in some warehouse called NJ Posts: 235 Rep Power: 0	Yeah it does seem to be working fine. I just wanted to check it out due to the changes SP2 made to the stack. Thanks for the heads up mYthicaL. __________________ This is my "sig". There are many like them but this one is mine.

Aug 31, 2004, 05:13 AM	#13
Falstaff Old Codger Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: USAFA Posts: 19,047 Rep Power: 206	I am looking for a plain old modem tweak for dialup. Using AOL on my dads box, and he suffers from the 9.0 double buffering problem..lol..any ideas? __________________ "Inspiration is always a surprising visitor."

Sep 22, 2004, 05:34 PM	#15
ChoGGi DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Toronto Posts: 1,209 Rep Power: 0	hey cypher_138 you can use this instead copy c:\windows\System32\DRIVERS\afd.sys z:\ copy c:\windows\System32\DRIVERS\netbt.sys z:\ copy c:\windows\System32\DRIVERS\tcpip.sys z:\ copy c:\windows\System32\DRIVERS\ipnat.sys z:\ copy %SystemRoot%\System32\DRIVERS\afd.sys z:\ copy %SystemRoot%\System32\DRIVERS\netbt.sys z:\ copy %SystemRoot%\System32\DRIVERS\tcpip.sys z:\ copy %SystemRoot%\System32\DRIVERS\ipnat.sys z:\ then it doesnt matter which drive win is on (not sure if this works for win9x)

Oct 3, 2004, 01:28 AM	#17
Skrov N00b Oldie Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Sweden Posts: 12 Rep Power: 0	Did not get it to work though looked around and found another guide at http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=131 where they use a .bat file extension and add \??\ like this : [color=#cc0000]ImagePath = \??\Z:\tcpip.sys[/color] for every altered imagePath and it worked for me __________________ [color=orange]AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Thermaltake SB K8 \| Asus K8VSEDX \| Z300A-APF PSU \| 2*512 MB OCZ PC3200 \| HIS 9800 Pro \| Hitachi 160 GB \| Hitachi 120 GB \| Audigy 2 \| Plantronics Audio 90 \| Samsung 16x/48x \| LITE-ON 16x/10x/40x \| Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 19´\| MX 500 \| WXP Pro SP2 [/color]

Aug 17, 2005, 09:35 AM	#18
Ifixit DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Tokoroa NZ Posts: 20 Rep Power: 0	Nice! Cheers this is a nice bit of tweaking wd. Worked for me on xp service pack 2 with 1gb ram. Had to search for ramdrive your link seems bad now. Also \??\ was funny looking and i did not put the registry links as you had it thinking it was wrong. After i made the regisrty imagepath \??\Z:\<filename> it worked sweet as. I only made a 15mb ramdisk as the 4 files really don't take up much space i think even a lowly 256 mb of ram system could handle it. I shaved 2 ms of my ase pings to the game server so i'm pleased. Hopeing for better actually in game. Thanks dude and once again wd DH and ATI Rock __________________ DH and ATI ROCK!!!!!

Oct 24, 2005, 03:20 PM	#19
conglacio DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 8 Rep Power: 0	mmm...saw this page from a web search.... decided to try this, but... though the files are sent to the ram drive ok (drive letter R) the PC seems to think it has no network when I boot up with the reg settings as listed in the above posts...(with the drive letter changed) eg, for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\AFD I changed ImagePath from \SystemRoot\System32\drivers\afd.sys to \??\R:\afd.sys I had thought the \??\ was just stuff that you are supposed to change to suit your system, but a post in this thread says otherwise, so I left them in...# any tips on working out what I did wrong?

Oct 25, 2005, 12:34 AM	#20
ChoGGi DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Toronto Posts: 1,209 Rep Power: 0	sounds like these arent running net start afd net start netbt net start tcpip net start ipnat try running one of them manually from a dosbox and see what it says __________________ specs Common Problems and Fixes for your Radeon

Oct 25, 2005, 02:40 AM	#21
conglacio DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 8 Rep Power: 0	mm...they should be running...at least, the .sys file is where it is supposed to be.... give me a sec to swap reg settings and I will check....

Oct 25, 2005, 03:16 AM	#22
conglacio DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 8 Rep Power: 0	Ok, here is what I got...(including 2 commands I ran after that..) D:\Documents and Settings\Dave>net start afd The requested service has already been started. More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2182. D:\Documents and Settings\Dave>NET HELPMSG 2182 The requested service has already been started. EXPLANATION You tried to start a service that is already running. ACTION To display a list of active services, type: NET START D:\Documents and Settings\Dave>net start These Windows services are started: AVG7 Alert Manager Server AVG7 Update Service COM+ Event System Computer Browser Cryptographic Services DCOM Server Process Launcher Distributed Link Tracking Client Error Reporting Service Event Log FAH@D:+Program Files+Folding@Home+FAH502-Console.exe Help and Support Human Interface Device Access Network Connections NVIDIA Display Driver Service Plug and Play Print Spooler Protected Storage Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Locator Security Center Server Shell Hardware Detection System Event Notification System Restore Service Task Scheduler Terminal Services WebClient Windows Audio Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) Windows Management Instrumentation Windows Time Wireless Zero Configuration Workstation The command completed successfully.

Oct 25, 2005, 03:19 AM	#23
conglacio DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 8 Rep Power: 0	interestingly enough, as I was booting up with the normal reg settings, so I could post this, I noticed 2 dos boxes coming up for less then a second....I decided to ad a pause to the .bat file that I was using, to see what those boxes said...this is what they say... ----box 1---- D:\>Echo Starting TCP/IP Services Starting TCP/IP Services D:\>copy D:\WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\afd.sys r:\ 1 file(s) copied. D:\>copy D:\WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\netbt.sys r:\ The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process 0 file(s) copied. D:\>copy D:\WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\tcpip.sys r:\ 1 file(s) copied. D:\>copy D:\WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\ipnat.sys r:\ 1 file(s) copied. D:\>net start afd The requested service has already been started. More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2182. ----box 2---- D:\>Echo Starting TCP/IP Services Starting TCP/IP Services D:\>copy D:\WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\afd.sys r:\ 1 file(s) copied. D:\>copy D:\WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\netbt.sys r:\ 1 file(s) copied. D:\>copy D:\WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\tcpip.sys r:\ The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. 0 file(s) copied. D:\>copy D:\WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\ipnat.sys r:\ The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. 0 file(s) copied. D:\>net start afd The requested service has already been started. More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2182.

Oct 25, 2005, 03:44 AM	#24
ChoGGi DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Toronto Posts: 1,209 Rep Power: 0	going by what i can see you've made it a bit too complicated or maybe its just running a few times? check your startup locations edit: could you post the bat file your using? __________________ specs Common Problems and Fixes for your Radeon

Oct 25, 2005, 04:14 AM	#25
conglacio DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 8 Rep Power: 0	well, I only remember putting it into the startup folder...I removed the shortcut from there, and found that the file did not run with the modded reg settings, the first 2 services did not show as running when I started them up seperatly in the dos box the batch file is @echo on Echo Starting TCP/IP Services copy D:\WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\afd.sys r:\ copy D:\WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\netbt.sys r:\ copy D:\WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\tcpip.sys r:\ copy D:\WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\ipnat.sys r:\ net start afd net start netbt net start tcpip net start ipnat

Oct 25, 2005, 04:17 AM	#26
ChoGGi DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Toronto Posts: 1,209 Rep Power: 0	try putting net start tcpip first instead of net start afd you can use startupcpl to see whats starting http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml __________________ specs Common Problems and Fixes for your Radeon

Oct 25, 2005, 04:51 AM	#27
conglacio DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 8 Rep Power: 0	changed it round, and the first 3 start ok, the last says it is allready running. retiring for night...will be back tomorrow thanks for the help so far!

Oct 25, 2005, 04:27 PM	#28
ChoGGi DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Toronto Posts: 1,209 Rep Power: 0	check the registry one more time just to make sure you typed in the locations right __________________ specs Common Problems and Fixes for your Radeon

Oct 25, 2005, 09:25 PM	#29
conglacio DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 8 Rep Power: 0	ok, just loaded up that reg backup..... \??\R:\tcpip.sys the other 3 have the same format

Oct 25, 2005, 09:33 PM	#30
ChoGGi DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Toronto Posts: 1,209 Rep Power: 0	well i only got this working yesterday (had a clean install figured i might as well try it) so i'm basically out of ideas i have them starting in this order (i dont have netbt there because it doesnt run normally so no sense in me running it) tcpip afd ipnat you could try copying the files from elsewhere instead of the driver folder (i have to do that for x64 or else the file redirection crap kicks in), probably wont make a difference though. __________________ specs Common Problems and Fixes for your Radeon