Rickair7777 on 24/1/2007 at 20:14
I have hyperthreading on my dell inspiron 5160 2.8G. I run XP, with as much background crap turned off as possible. I have set T2 to use only one CPU, which prevents the hang problem. It used to work fine, performance wise.
Recently something changed (in Windows I assume), when I play T2 (FM's) the performance became very slow. Not sure what happened here, but the one virtual CPU assigned to T2 is maxed out.
I disabled hyperthreading at the bios level, which helped a great deal but I understand that I need to re-install XP to get it optimized for single-CPU. Would rather not do that...
Any ideas as to what might have happened? I do keep XP updated...maybe some MS crap?
Thxs
Naked on 25/1/2007 at 17:07
It is a well known and slightly proven theory that in fact, Windows XP does 'die over time'.
Rickair7777 on 26/1/2007 at 01:19
Quote Posted by Naked
It is a well known and slightly proven theory that in fact, Windows XP does 'die over time'.
????
Any fix for that? Re-install maybe?
Truekeeper on 27/1/2007 at 05:47
Well you know, windows get ill with the time.
You will never have a healhty windows forever.
Thats the truth.
lambizkit on 29/1/2007 at 06:18
I believe I've experienced the windows dying thing first hand. When I first bought my computer I had to manually set the CPU affinity for the thief games. Something happened, don't ask me what but now I don't. It's as if hyper threading just flew out the window and I've noticed considerable slowdown with the entire OS since then. Thank you Mr. Gates.
bikerdude on 29/1/2007 at 16:18
Quote Posted by Rickair7777
????
Any fix for that? Re-install maybe?
1. partition the hard drive(mine is a 250gb raid) into several partitions
* System - (OS, programs (10gb)
* Documents, (my documents (5gb)
* Downloads, (what is says (5gb)
* Data, (games, bittorents etc (200gb)
* Spare, (any other crap (30gb)
2. Then you install windows and all your apps on system, configure it just the way you like it, then run ghost off your bootable usb stick(PM if you need a hand with this part) and dump an image of the 'System' partition on the 'Spare' drive.
Then if windows ever gets crappy, or you get infected, or your testing a peice of software. As all your docs, data etc are all safe on the other partitions you can reimage as many times as you need/want too.
biker
