How to Optimize Vista

[jahrain]

Because Windows always used all available RAM regardless of how much was used by programs in general.

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum...fm/756806.html

It prefetches what it assumes you'll eventually be using so you don't need to access it from the hard drive. Why not? When it needs the RAM it will kick the extraneous off, if it doesn't need the RAM it'll potentially speed up later if it just so happened to prefetch something that ended up being used. As an example, if you use Firefox daily... it might dump firefox into your RAM if it has extra space -- assuming at SOME point you'll turn firefox on and it won't need to even look at the harddrive.

Then this is probably what the cause of my problems are. Is there anyway to disable this so it works like XP? I don't want my operating system making 'assumptions' about which programs I will choose to use and eating up all my ram just to save it for what it thinks I might want to use. I use different applications constantly and never really have any main pattern in usages. One day I will be using nothing but photoshop, the next I will be playing a game, the next I will be using some 3d applications, etc. No wonder it gives me so much trouble because I'm not the typical average user it 'assumes' I am.

It might not be *laggy*, it might just be a hiccupy gamespeed. Try turning on Vsync.

How do I turn on this vsync? There is no option in the game to do it that I know of. If you tell me, I will be very happy. Btw, if your going to say turn it on in the driver settings then... grrr... *Goes back to original problem about crap drivers that don't allow this and that to be done in vista*.