Machine slowdown after games

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Phil

I've experienced this same phenomina with several games, and in times past
with other machines, as well as this one. After running a game, some not too
intensive such as "Dark Fall", others more 3D and sound intensive, such as
URU, Ages Beyond Myst, my machine runs like cold molasses. It stays this way
for a long time, never regaining it's performance until I reboot. Is there a
program anyone knows about that can "clear" whatever causes these slowdowns
after a game? No doubt many other users are seeing this same thing. It's as
if the disk cache or whatever is full and doesn't clear out for other uses.
I'm running a 1.9 G Pentium 4 with 512 MB of PC 2100 DDR on a MSI 645 Ultra
motherboard, 80 GB IBM drive, TDK CD-R, SiS chipset. All BIOS, Mboard
drivers, AGP, etc., as well as all sound and graphic drivers are up to date.
All games I run do so flawlessly, no hiccups or crashes, just that my
machine is like a dog after quitting the games.
 
Hi Phil,

You can get a program to optimize memory from a site
like downloads.com which has several available, a lot
of them are even freeware, however, I don't any of those
myself, I prefer to reboot when I feel my system is sluggish.

That's just me though. I still believe that less is best. ;-)

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| I've experienced this same phenomina with several games, and in times past
| with other machines, as well as this one. After running a game, some not too
| intensive such as "Dark Fall", others more 3D and sound intensive, such as
| URU, Ages Beyond Myst, my machine runs like cold molasses. It stays this way
| for a long time, never regaining it's performance until I reboot. Is there a
| program anyone knows about that can "clear" whatever causes these slowdowns
| after a game? No doubt many other users are seeing this same thing. It's as
| if the disk cache or whatever is full and doesn't clear out for other uses.
| I'm running a 1.9 G Pentium 4 with 512 MB of PC 2100 DDR on a MSI 645 Ultra
| motherboard, 80 GB IBM drive, TDK CD-R, SiS chipset. All BIOS, Mboard
| drivers, AGP, etc., as well as all sound and graphic drivers are up to date.
| All games I run do so flawlessly, no hiccups or crashes, just that my
| machine is like a dog after quitting the games.
|
|
 
What OS are you using?

If you use Win9x, that is normal because it does not release all of the
resources after you quit a game/app. Look under system properties before you
run the game and see what the % is and again after you're done.

Win XP is much better at managing memory and also runs faster then Win9x on
the same hardware.
 
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