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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: FireDrgn on May 26, 2007, 03:41:59 PM

Title: Hard drive
Post by: FireDrgn on May 26, 2007, 03:41:59 PM

Does AH access the hard drive during play even if you preload the textures?

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Title: Re: Hard drive
Post by: doc1kelley on May 26, 2007, 09:13:25 PM

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Originally posted by FireDrgn
Does AH access the hard drive during play even if you preload the textures?

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Yes, especially for skins and you can't pre-load all the skins unless you have mega gigs of memory.  You didn't state if you have anything running in the background like Anti-Virus or anti-spyware programs or something silly like winblows update or any other programs with an auto-update feature.  All of those can cause your disk to be accessed while playing AH.

All the Best...
Jay
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Title: thanks
Post by: FireDrgn on May 27, 2007, 01:59:54 PM

I only have widows vista running.

Would a faster hard drive give better game performance. i have a 7200 rpm
seagate.

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Title: Re: thanks
Post by: TequilaChaser on May 27, 2007, 02:34:09 PM

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Originally posted by FireDrgn
I only have widows vista running.

Would a faster hard drive give better game performance. i have a 7200 rpm
seagate.

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Western-Digital 74 gig 10,000 rpm RAPTOR  HD

with nothing loaded on it except the OS and AH.......maybe  a webbrowser(firewall too )

Title: Re: thanks
Post by: Ghosth on May 28, 2007, 08:01:26 AM

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Originally posted by FireDrgn
I only have widows vista running.
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There is your problem right there.

Dump vista, reinstall XP pro, or set it up for a dual boot if you MUST have vista.

Title: Re: thanks
Post by: doc1kelley on May 29, 2007, 10:04:13 AM

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Originally posted by FireDrgn
I only have widows vista running.

Would a faster hard drive give better game performance. i have a 7200 rpm
seagate.

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Not really under that operating system.  It would but it would be such a minimal performance gain that you couldn't tell it.  The best thing to do is ditch Vista.  If you can't do that, then read Skuzzy's Post it for optimizing Vista for AH and then print it out and follow his suggestions step by step.

All the Best...
Jay
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