Where can I increase perfomance for my computer?

[Denniss]

With so much free space there should be not much fragmentation but the more it's filled the more fragmentation builds up over time.

[gyrene81]

The power of placebo

Defragging the drive will only give a marginal improvement to disk load times, that's all. The HDD will still be old and slow as the rest of the system. Only if you have an insanely trashed system that swaps all the time you'll notice any operational speed improvements and even then your problem should be solved by updating the hardware.

fixed and +1. 

With so much free space there should be not much fragmentation but the more it's filled the more fragmentation builds up over time.

not exactly, especially with windows. the way the read/write process works in windows, fragmentation occurs to varying degrees during install, uninstall, save, download, copy, move, delete, etc... even a fresh install of windows will be fragmented upon completion.

[Skuzzy]

If you run Windows with a dynamic swap file, instead of a static one, fragmentation will run rampant.

[icepac]

How much disk reading/writing is going on when the only application running is aces high?

I can play for hours and hardly ever see the hard drive activity light come on.

If your hard drive light is on often or constantly while playing aces high, then you have something running in the background that is stealing your machine's will to live.


BTW........I only defragment when I have finalized a new install but I go pretty "deep" with my one time defrag. of my systems to ensure the static swap file is sweet by using old school mojo.

In the last 10 years, I have probably defragged about 3 times and aces high runs sweet on ATI HD4200 (weak) integrated video without having to turn every graphic setting to it's lowest.

If you GV near the water, you must have "detailed water" on or you will end up in a creek or the ocean.

These are the settings I found worked about 1 hour into my aces high experience and have left them this way out of laziness because the sim works great.

[guncrasher]

icepac aces high is constantly writing to your hard drive.  I believe the light is linked to how much writing is being done on the hard drive.  I am not an expert but I believe that windows itself is constantly writing to the hard drive so there's a threshold that must be met before you see the light come on, after all there wouldnt be any point if the red light was always on.

semp

[Skuzzy]

icepac aces high is constantly writing to your hard drive.  I believe the light is linked to how much writing is being done on the hard drive.  I am not an expert but I believe that windows itself is constantly writing to the hard drive so there's a threshold that must be met before you see the light come on, after all there wouldnt be any point if the red light was always on.

semp

If you have 'write-caching' enabled in Windows (it is on by default), then the writes will be grouped together and done as a burst, hence why the HD activity light will appear to come on at fixed intervals, unless the cache gets full before the write interval is expired.

I have always disabled write-caching as it helps to eliminate data loss when Windows crashes or locks-up and you have to hit the reset button to get Windows going again.