The PC Gaming Blog over at 451 Press has an item on Reducing Lag in Online Gaming, with 10 tips on ways you can improve your gaminge xperience. Many will be well known to experienced gamers, but the list covers a range of variables that involve hardware (Upgrade Your Computer, Check Your Network Cable, Increase System Cooling), configuration (Close Background Tasks, Reduce the Screen Resolution) and connectivity (Seclect Low-Pinged Servers, Get Better Bandwidth/A Better ISP). Sam also shares a tip from the Filefront Forums that may be new to many players: renaming the .exe can route around game detection functions in popular graphics cards that can imapct the performance of some games.


February 11th, 2007 at 2:00 am
Yes, apparently it’s due to the graphics card software creating seperate profiles for the particular .exe of your game, this produces more background tasks which pretend to increase game performance but… Don’t really work!
Sam.
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