longinno.blogg.se

1. TORCHLIGHT 2 LIST OF GAMES ARE OFF SCREEN HINTS INSTALL
2. TORCHLIGHT 2 LIST OF GAMES ARE OFF SCREEN HINTS WINDOWS

While occasional skips remain, the nagging pauses that interfered with aim largely disappear, and the game’s famously fluid and fast paced feel is mostly restored. Results were again noticeably higher post system strip-down, and although the measured bump was mostly in the 4-10 fps range, the subjective results were even more pronounced during the level playthrough. Outdoor scene fps results for Left 4 Dead 2, stripped system on the right. Stripped systems had all startup items such as system tray utilities removed, non-essential services disabled, and most background tasks terminated prior to testing. Normal systems had all desktop applications closed except an explorer window and a single browser tab, to simulate standard usage scenarios. Framerates, stuttering, and overall playability were noted for each, where applicable.Īpps and services were halted or started with a combination of the task manager, system configuration app, and the services manager from the Microsoft management console in an operation limited to less than two minutes of tweaking and a single reboot. Three games and one synthetic benchmark were run with the system loading all startup apps, background tasks, and services normally, and then run again with the system stripped down to the essentials.

TORCHLIGHT 2 LIST OF GAMES ARE OFF SCREEN HINTS WINDOWS

An elderly, unmaintained Windows installation that includes these and other accumulated kruft is bound to produce even greater deltas. This includes installer add-on toolbars, helper apps, Java, Flash, and the official Acrobat reader program so the results here are conservative. Since Netbook users are already careful curators of system resources, obvious offending processor parasites and application elephants were skipped from the start.

TORCHLIGHT 2 LIST OF GAMES ARE OFF SCREEN HINTS INSTALL

Testing - OS and appsĪ fresh, fully updated Windows 10 install with the typical suite of MS Office, Steam, Avast, Photoshop, Dropbox, Chrome, and the latest drivers were used as a software starting point and installed on the Lenovo’s upgraded, 128GB M.2 SATA drive. They can help with identification of individual services and offer advice on what to disable and what to keep running. Several resources exist if you want to do some research on background task and services functions in Windows, including Elder Geeks Windows services page, and Black Vipers Windows 10 Service guide. Note that if a service allows itself to be uninstalled in this fashion, it’s almost certainly not required for general desktop usage. This can be accomplished via the Programs and Features control panel area, under the “Turn Windows features on or off” option. If you find a service or function built into Windows that you know you won’t be using but it starts with the system anyway, consider uninstalling it rather than disabling it. If disabling services via checkboxes in the configuration utility seems risky for your system, you can also just halt (rather than disable) them via Microsoft’s preferred method, the Services console, and they will restart automatically next reboot with no intervention required. While some of these will be required during gaming or other functions, such as the Steam client service, many will likely not be needed, so it’s the perfect place to start. Click on the “Services” tab and check “Hide all Microsoft services” for a quick overview of all third-party processes installed on your system. Type “msconfig.exe” at any command prompt or the Start menu and hit Enter to bring up the System Configuration utility, one of Windows’s handiest tools. This will pop up an Explorer window to the right location, which should help. To discover the folder where any running program is kept, just right-click on its entry in the Task Manager and select Open File Location from the menu. If you’re not sure what a background task is doing, finding out where the executable is stored can explain a lot. It pays to know a bit about Windows when deciding which apps and services to kill and which to keep running, but common sense and a few tips can take you pretty far.

Can careful cuts to system overhead turn this fashionable, functional featherweight into a contender? Testing yielded several popular 3D titles with near-playable framerates. That doesn’t mean this dog won’t hunt when it comes to gaming, however. Featuring 12 EUs and a 700MHz clockspeed, it supports modern features such as 4K output and H.265 decoding, but is mostly made with office tasks in mind. The integrated Intel HD 400 IGP, based on Broadwell’s built-in HD 5300, fares better. Every little bit counts, especially on lesser hardware.