Optimizing Performance

[TheSilentAssassin]

What are some things that you can do to maximize your PCs performance for the newest games?

[Donziboy2]

#1 Drivers.
#2 More Drivers.
#3 Driver Settings
#4 Windows Tweaks
#5 Google is your friend.

You can usually find a list of background programs running that dont need to be. Windows usually has services running you dont need also.

You have a pretty good beast of a system so as long as the game has had graphics patches and nvidia has pumped out optimized drivers for the games you are playing you should be good.

[Grisu]

#6 Tweak CPU / Ram settings (OC if needed)
#7 Bios Updates
#8 "Fresh" Windows installation with latest patches

[TheSilentAssassin]

what about that program called gamebooster?

[Infamous]

sounds like crap to me. the more stuff you have running, the less you have to work with. with your ram, cpu and set up, i seriously doubt you'd notice much of a difference. bad ass is bad ass.

[mapes]

what about that program called gamebooster?

Yeah I've already turned off all the unneeded services and I'm not running anything in the background so I see it as minimal value

[WalkinTarget]

#8 "Fresh" Windows installation with latest patches

I think this one gives you the most bump for tweaks, but its also the most time consuming by far. Blow away 3+ years of accumulated crap to speed up my games ?? Hope you have a long weekend to burn on the job !

[Dead...Again]

With a new system, you shouldn't need anything like that anyway...

[Devilguns]

The best way I found out to optimize a rig for gaming, is keep it a dedicated gaming machine. Do all your other computing on another machine.

[drunken_chef]

I think this one gives you the most bump for tweaks, but its also the most time consuming by far. Blow away 3+ years of accumulated crap to speed up my games ?? Hope you have a long weekend to burn on the job !

spend a weekend, do it right and image the drive. then, refresh it in less than 30 minutes whenever you care to.

[mapes]

The best way I found out to optimize a rig for gaming, is keep it a dedicated gaming machine. Do all your other computing on another machine.

That works pretty good. all of my website/home automation is on my linux box, my laptop is for browsing and my desktop is for gaming. Although when dealing with raw images I need to use photoshop on my desktop just for it's cpu power.

[Infamous]

The best way I found out to optimize a rig for gaming, is keep it a dedicated gaming machine. Do all your other computing on another machine.

this is what i do. gaming machine opens steam, and games, thats about it. not everyone has this option tough.

[Devilguns]

this is what i do. gaming machine opens steam, and games, thats about it. not everyone has this option tough.

I hear that. My old gaming machine usually becomes my new photoshop machine. In the past when I only had one machine it would get bogged down with junk. Between installing peripherals and other software that goes with daily computing it was always a game of shutting down running processes ect before game time.

I keep my gaming machine lean and mean. I only have two games installed. I don't even have antivirus on it. Machine boots in 20 seconds.

[Infamous]

the GF went on some installing spree right after i built this,, i was MAD!! she has her own rig, plus the old rig,,, i got it all off.

benefit of upgrading, the 2nd PC gets one as well , for free!

[Dead...Again]

another option is to create another user for gaming. Then you can limit what gets loaded for that user.