Real Time Priority

[esaul17]

Is it a bad idea to set the priority of games and medi programs to realtime to preven tthem from skipping when you are using other programs, and to help prevent games from lagging? Is there any adverse side effects to this?

[Neil]

Real time priority means it takes priority over windows.

Really bad idea. Unless you like your mouse to lag by 1 minute.

[Tomi]

I'd just say to leave priority settings alone. It screws with other programs and it doesn't help that much actually.

[esaul17]

Hmmm, it stopped my music in WMP from chopping. Is changing priority at all a really bad idea?

[Neil]

Originally posted by esaul17@Jun 5 2005, 08:20 PM
Hmmm, it stopped my music in WMP from chopping. Is changing priority at all a really bad idea?
If your WMP audio is lagging, that means you have WAY too many things open.

[esaul17]

All I have is an ebook (Adobe Acrobat), a solutions manual (Adobe Acrobat), WMP, and an internet browser (Mozilla Firefox). Is that too much? I have 1.99 GHz AMD Athlon processor and 512 RAM. My computer is a bit unstable though, as it tends to freeze when I play games. I don't know why it does this, but I cannot seem to get it fixed. My tech support guy said it might have to to with RAM timings (whatever those are) but when he tried to fix it it was worse than ever.

Regardless, if I use above normal or high priority, is that bad too? What exactly are the negetive consequences of using higher priorities?

[Ander]

Originally posted by esaul17@Jun 6 2005, 12:04 PM
All I have is an ebook (Adobe Acrobat), a solutions manual (Adobe Acrobat), WMP, and an internet browser (Mozilla Firefox). Is that too much? I have 1.99 GHz AMD Athlon processor and 512 RAM. My computer is a bit unstable though, as it tends to freeze when I play games. I don't know why it does this, but I cannot seem to get it fixed. My tech support guy said it might have to to with RAM timings (whatever those are) but when he tried to fix it it was worse than ever.

Regardless, if I use above normal or high priority, is that bad too? What exactly are the negetive consequences of using higher priorities?
1. What game are you playing where you can actually see all that crap?

2. Why do you need it open when you're playing?

[Neil]

Well what games are you trying to play?

[esaul17]

Originally posted by Ander+Jun 8 2005, 02:01 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Ander @ Jun 8 2005, 02:01 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--esaul17@Jun 6 2005, 12:04 PM
All I have is an ebook (Adobe Acrobat), a solutions manual (Adobe Acrobat), WMP, and an internet browser (Mozilla Firefox). Is that too much? I have 1.99 GHz AMD Athlon processor and 512 RAM. My computer is a bit unstable though, as it tends to freeze when I play games. I don't know why it does this, but I cannot seem to get it fixed. My tech support guy said it might have to to with RAM timings (whatever those are) but when he tried to fix it it was worse than ever.

Regardless, if I use above normal or high priority, is that bad too? What exactly are the negetive consequences of using higher priorities?
1. What game are you playing where you can actually see all that crap?

2. Why do you need it open when you're playing? [/b][/quote]
No, I was just using my eBook and such. I mean my music skips WITHOUT playing a game. I was laso asking if I could raise the priority of the game to prevent it from chopping as much?

[Dr. Octagonapus]

You might wanna hit ctrl+alt+delete and go to Processes, and see how many you have running. There are a lot of invisible processes (some spyware, some can just be normal programs) that take up TONS of memory without you even realizing it. I run Windows XP on a 512 MB RAM too, although my processor is 2.52 GHz and I'm on cable. I usually have between 28-33 processes running.

[esaul17]

48 processes here.

[Tomi]

I have 51 process running, ATM. ;)

[esaul17]

So is it wrong that my WMP is lagging? Any clue how to fix this?

[Neil]

Originally posted by esaul17@Jun 8 2005, 09:28 PM
So is it wrong that my WMP is lagging? Any clue how to fix this?
Well, cut down on the processes starting on startup. Goto run type 'msconfig' and goto the startup tab.