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In Reply to: RE: 17 [New] Windows system startup changes posted by texastea006@yahoo.com on August 21, 2007 at 06:23:13
'/nodebug' gives improvements but can give minor video problems if PC is also used for DVDs (as video driver may need kernal debugger).
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I was just playing around with my affinities. Ending up setting everything possible to just the 2nd processor only (the one with the check box by the 1, not the 0).
I think I was able to modify the bat file to have all processes run at low priority also which is nice.
The major change I noticed, was when I went into processes explorer. right-clicked on an application (foobar) and chose properties..selected the TCP/IP tab and unchecked the Resolve addresses box. I felt this was quite a substantial improvement.
The only caveat is you have to keep the process explorer running for that change to stay in effect. For fun, I right clicked process explorer and selected suspend. Then when I closed foobar and explorer came back up, I opened another instance of process explorer to kill the first one.
When you uncheck Resolve addresses for one, it unchecks it for all other processes, so it seems to be a process explorer feature.
Anyway, maybe that check box gives you a clue about something in the system that uses TCP/IP that is used on the process level. Let me know if you can try unchecking that box and whether you hear the same improvement I did. It was not subtle on my end.
I'll try that this week hopefully. I use zoom player to play dvd content which uses a bunch of nvidia stuff and whatever else..maybe that change will work.
Off topic, but I just got some nice improvements by using a cheater plug to remove the ground from a tice power conditioner that is plugged into my main power conditioner (it removes some additional grunge so I keep it plugged in, and now even more without the ground). I already use a cheater plug to remove the ground connection from my lexicon processor. I'm pretty sure using a cheater plug on the computer itself would sound better. I'm not worried about the ground connection yet anyway because I just moved to a new place and the living room outlets are not grounded. I may get an electrician to run a new grounded circuit. I'm starting it least with putting in a audiophile outlet that just got delivered. Anyway, if you can try a cheater plug on anything, you may like what you hear!
I don't think I have any video problems after adding the 'nodebug' line, so that's cool. I also put a cheater plug on the end of my power cord to the computer. That smoothed out the overall sound some more too.
Are you sure there isn't a way to get the batch file to set winlogon and smss.exe to have priority=low. I tried those commands but it still doesn't come up and I have to do it manually,which means I always need to keep reopening my process explorer.
I still think I want to play with the affinity settings again, (the system affinity may be best with one processor) but it's getting hard to tell which is correct now that everything sounds so good.
Great. Now try '/timeres=9800' - this is important and very beneficial. Next version of paper is nearing completion and I'm hoping to get it out in a week or 2. All of this is explained and more.
See link for setting winlogon and smss. Commands (see rem #2 of ?.bat) first set them to low priority, then CPU 0 and finally suspends them. I'm using these and have no problems.
I'm not keen on cheaters - lifting grounds is dangerous. Instead, my baseline AC filter provides a legal way to filter ground. Try installing a saparate ground for your audio.
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