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« Reply #15 on: December 23, 2004, 06:58:52 am »
ya that will ALWAYS increase your computers preformance. Even do a reformat once and a while.
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« Reply #16 on: December 23, 2004, 08:43:36 am »
reformat? why?
my windows XP is installed since 7 septembre 2001 !

still running smoothly
i\'m running it on a
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and i\'m using it daily.
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« Reply #17 on: December 23, 2004, 09:00:16 am »
Yeah. Reformats shouldn\'t be necessary unless you really messed something up.
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« Reply #18 on: December 23, 2004, 05:23:25 pm »
when you work under Windows reformat is always a good solution  :))   :D   :))

Seriously, saying reformat will increase performance is very very silly !
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« Reply #19 on: December 23, 2004, 05:37:50 pm »
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Seriously, saying reformat will increase performance is very very silly !


Windows users should format their harddrive -at least- once per 6 months, and that\'s a fact.
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« Reply #20 on: December 23, 2004, 05:40:07 pm »
Linux users almost never need to reformat  :rolleyes:

Windowz sux...
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« Reply #21 on: December 23, 2004, 05:43:21 pm »
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Seriously, saying reformat will increase performance is very very silly !


Windows users should format their harddrive -at least- once per 6 months, and that\'s a fact.

Fiction! Fiction!
I am living proof (and my PC not so living) that this is not necesery at all. :]

Perhaps we should send this Urban(linux-user) Legend  to MythBusters :D
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« Reply #22 on: December 23, 2004, 06:37:30 pm »
While this was true with windows 98, as long as you don\'t do anything stupid with windows XP, you don\'t need to reformat that often.  I do it anyway though because I get so much clutter built up that it\'s easier just to burn a cd with all my important stuff on it and start over. :P
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« Reply #23 on: December 23, 2004, 06:41:56 pm »
It might also help that i don\'t install /uninstall programs all the time.

And when i\'m not using a program any more it gets uninstalled. (And me cleaning up after it sometimes :P)
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« Reply #24 on: December 23, 2004, 06:51:45 pm »
One thing Crystal Blue will have is a dynamic range camera.  So in options you can set a target FPS and the camera will reduce( or increase ) the drawing distance to try to keep that FPS.
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« Reply #25 on: December 23, 2004, 07:11:03 pm »
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One thing Crystal Blue will have is a dynamic range camera.  So in options you can set a target FPS and the camera will reduce( or increase ) the drawing distance to try to keep that FPS.

Whew, that\'s a relief...  I was demoted from an Athlon X: 1700+ with 1 gig of ram and a GeForce 4 5800 to............

Should I say it? :S

An intel celeron...six...hundred...with...half a gig of ram...and...a rage fury maxx dual processor vi--Okay, actually, the video card is WAY better than on the other compy, but the processor is so much ram so lacking that I really don\'t think I can squeeze the same performance out of it.
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« Reply #26 on: December 23, 2004, 07:20:42 pm »
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and...a rage fury maxx dual processor vi--Okay, actually, the video card is WAY better than on the other compy

Ah, another unlucky owner of a piece of hardware that doesn\'t bother to be working correctly. Seriously, I recently replaced my RFM with an even older Voodoo Banshee board, thereby decreasing the video memory to 1/4 (16 MB instead of 64 MB), and guess what: now I can finally watch videos, and there isn\'t any noticable performance impact in games except increased loading activity, probably for swapping textures. The RFM will be banished to a server; there it will rot in text mode.
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« Reply #27 on: December 23, 2004, 07:25:19 pm »
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Ah, another unlucky owner of a piece of hardware that doesn\'t bother to be working correctly. Seriously, I recently replaced my RFM with an even older Voodoo Banshee board, thereby decreasing the video memory to 1/4 (16 MB instead of 64 MB), and guess what: now I can finally watch videos, and there isn\'t any noticable performance impact in games except increased loading activity, probably for swapping textures. The RFM will be banished to a server; there it will rot in text mode.


Yeah, I DID have some problems getting both processors to work properly under windows XP, but it really was worth the effort,  I tried taking the 5800+ out of my dad\'s comp, since he doesn\'t use it that often, and putting it in this one, but the end results were about 70% slower...So...yeah.
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« Reply #28 on: December 23, 2004, 10:15:49 pm »
Formatting windows helps because it cleans all the useless garbage that bogs down your PC out of your registry. However, if you\'re really computer savvy and use things like Ad-Aware, RegSeeker, and clean the registry and HDD yourself you\'ll do OK without reformatting.
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