new comp... hosting less people

hunchback · Post by **hunchback** » Sun Jul 14, 2002 10:30 pm

i got a new computer DELL 4500 p4 2.0 256 ram and gf4

i can host less people on rogue spear then i could with the old computer

my old was athalon 800 mhz 128 ram with a NVIDA TNT 2

why is this happening???

Immortal · Post by **Immortal** » Mon Jul 15, 2002 12:19 am

bad nic card? maybe yer isp just started to not be as good as before?

more ram? hehe..

Set · Post by **Set** » Mon Jul 15, 2002 12:37 am

dunno RS is crappy like that

you on xp now? was old pc os XP?

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Mon Jul 15, 2002 8:46 am

Which OS before and after?

Good NIC?

Logged on as "Admin"...which sucks up many resources and leads to a sluggish system, or a standard account, which logs on with leaner resources.

Anti-virus on the Dell with real time file protection enabled?

hunchback · Post by **hunchback** » Mon Jul 15, 2002 12:22 pm

the old os was ME the new 1 is XP i killed the firewall but i did not know about this file protecton thing

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Mon Jul 15, 2002 2:18 pm

Norton Anti-virus, as do most of the newer anti-virus programs lately, will have a feature, usually enabled by default, of Real Time File Protection. Open up your antivirus program and look for it. What it does, is "sniff" every single file and bit of data that the computer works with...in real time. Puts a performance hit on things, but gives you protection. But on a game server, something doing that job, you could disable the real time file protection while your game is running.....increasing performance.

Just assuming you had an antivirus program installed since you got an OEM Dell box.

Also your system, even though the CPU is probably much faster, dunno what your memory specs were on your old server, but with only 256 megs of RAM, WinXP will not be a ball of fire.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Mon Jul 15, 2002 5:19 pm

Originally posted by YeOldeStonecat
Logged on as "Admin"...which sucks up many resources and leads to a sluggish system, or a standard account, which logs on with leaner resources.

does that really make that much of a difference ??

maybe i should try it then.

sorry to crap on your thread

Phat · Post by **Phat** » Mon Jul 15, 2002 8:13 pm

yea its xp just disalble most prog's running and go to old style looking for windows. had same problem, but disables most of progs tweaked a little more and I host more then I did with Me. go to disable progs http://www.blkviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

Set · Post by **Set** » Tue Jul 16, 2002 12:40 am

all so run RS in 98/Me mode.... right exe. 3rd over