Speed up game play by shutting down processes

MikeMcCarty · 07-02-2003, 11:07 PM

How do I shut down certain unneccesary processes to spped up my game play and what processes do I shut down?

ksgill · 07-03-2003, 12:25 AM

Type this in the console-

ps -aux

to see all the processes running and thn you can use

kill (pid number) - of the process you want to kill.

MikeMcCarty · 07-03-2003, 12:38 AM

What processes that I kill would speed up the game?

ksgill · 07-03-2003, 12:41 AM

depends on what processes you have running. Anything you dont need..i suppose. Just out of curosity what game is that and what are the specifications of your computer?

MikeMcCarty · 07-03-2003, 12:51 AM

Soldier of Fortune 2
512 MB RAM
Forgot specs on cpu and dont know how to fin out in linux

ksgill · 07-03-2003, 01:05 AM

minimum specifications to run that are 128MB so I think you should be okay there even with linux running. Are u using wine to run it? I still havent figured out how to run win-doze games on my linux pc

MikeMcCarty · 07-03-2003, 02:33 AM

I'm using winex and it runs incredibly slow

Joey.Dale · 07-04-2003, 02:53 PM

You can find your proc specs by typing "cat proc/cpuinfo"

Joey

genghis · 07-04-2003, 02:59 PM

i tend to run games (unreal 2003) in failsafe mode where not much processes are runniing i get a measureable increase in perforamance
(./ut2003)

can you post how u got ur sof2 to work in detail?

thanks!

MikeMcCarty · 07-04-2003, 05:21 PM

How do you run redhat 9 in failsafe mode. I downloaded winex3 from transgaming.com, installed, and all I have to do to run something is type winex3 gamename.exe or setup.exe.
- Mike

genghis · 07-22-2003, 03:32 PM

in the login screen :
there is a session icon where u can select KDe,GNOME,last and failsafe
it gives u a text only mode environment
but X is running so u can run GL games
with the freed mem.

genghis · 07-22-2003, 03:34 PM

i have a couple of probs in wine

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