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Help and Support Forums => Technical Support => Topic started by: RoGenT on March 16, 2011, 01:31:24 PM
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I use game booster ver. 2.2 right now and I was curious on what happens in the actual game play if someone defrags it. I mean as in do hits not show, some explosions, etc., I've done it to another game and it was just small stuff like blood, hits shown on crosshairs.
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What do you mean by "defrag the game"?
Defragging means that you are taking all of the "fragmented files/data on your HD and regrouping them together there by increasing the speed of your HD to find and use the data.
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What do you mean by "defrag the game"?
Defragging means that you are taking all of the "fragmented files/data on your HD and regrouping them together there by increasing the speed of your HD to find and use the data.
Well I mean defragging the game like you would run a defragging program for your computer. Thank you for the response though. I was begining to wonder if anyone was going to in fact reply at all.
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Technically you CAN'T defrag the game. You can defrag your hard drive and it will group the game files better. I usually defrag my computer after installing an update for the game.
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Cool - I'll defrag the computer then.
:salute
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Negative... you CAN defrag the game (in a way) with the new designs of defragging programs. Fortunately it is NOT a good idea to do that while flying and the reason I say fortunately is the way it would/will affect play. We have enough problems with warpers already but this could/would cause freezeups and disconnects. Bombers for instance would lose their drones at the very least.
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Negative... you CAN defrag the game (in a way) with the new designs of defragging programs. Fortunately it is NOT a good idea to do that while flying and the reason I say fortunately is the way it would/will affect play. We have enough problems with warpers already but this could/would cause freezeups and disconnects. Bombers for instance would lose their drones at the very least.
Of course, I wouldn't do it while flying. My connection isn't that great as is so I don't want to warp any more then what I already do.
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I would think the disco would be worse. :D
Most of the popular defraggers allow you to distinguish which programs you wish to load faster and put them at the faster part of the drive. Whether the program calls it "zones" or higher priorities... whatever... and then you set the program to monitor that program with a lower sensitivity for fragments. You need to suspend monitoring during online time though or the likelihood for whitescreen lockups increases dramatically.
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I like to think of a hard drive as a parking lot. Each car (or file) takes up one parking spot (block of data), no matter if it is a van, compact, or a motorcycle. I know it's a bit more complex than that but this gets the point across.
Lets say your local grocery store opens up for the day. The lot is empty. As the first cars pull in they park in the spaces closest to the store and it's all nice and neat. Over time however, the cars get scattered because they pull in (saving data) and back out (deleting data) at different times. What you end up with is a lot that has some cars in the front, some in the back, and a lot of empty spaces in between. The cars parked closest to the store can be walked to quickly, and the ones at the back of the lot takes a few minutes to get to.
What defragging does is backs all of the cars out and moves the one you would want to get to the most towards the front of the store, and moves the lesser used ones behind them thus eliminating the empty spaces in between and making thing work more smoothly.
When you defrag a game folder, it moves all of its files physically next to each other on the hard drive, so it doesn't have to go looking all over the place for that data. Really, to be honest it doesn't make that much of a difference unless your hard drive is all fragmented to begin with. You probably won't even notice a difference.
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I think the best way is to install Windows and then AH and then nothing else... EVER.