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This got off on a tangent didnt it lol. Are these tweaks worth the time for any of you? I think they are. They cleaned about 5gb+ off my SSD and this is on a new windows install and update to sp1 with only a10 installed with all my essential programs to run a10. Although I think 3gb or so was flippin system restore points and hard drive address space for restore points. Disable system restore for sure it will clean GB's off your SSD.(Make a backup first)

All the credit goes to Lighningltd over at winseven forums for this tweak. He has a bunch of em but I only do a few. Here is how to move temp folders in win7. http://ask-leo.com/how_do_i_change_the_location_of_windows_temporary_files.html Use this tweak to make win7 think your saved games folder is on C:.... Moving parts of Windows 7 to another drive... It has been asked what other little things can be done to squeeze a litle more performance from Windows 7 on our SSD drives... One thing that helps maintain performance on an SSD is the percentage of free space available to the SSD controller to execute 'wear leveling'. Basically, spreading out the load to the least used empty memory cells. In order to do this, we need to fool Windows and other programs into looking elsewhere for stuff that is necessary, but rarely used and taking up a lot of disk space. This part is only useful IF you have your operating system on your SSD AND it is formatted as NTFS and have a second drive available (NTFS) with space free to use. What we are going to do is move certain directories to the other drive, then make Windows (and the programs) think it is still on the boot drive. We do this by using an NTFS 'junction'. Think of a junction as a pointer to a location. To the operating system, the files look like they are in location A, but they are really physically in location B. For the tutorial, we are going to assume that the SSD is C: and the second drive is E:. Substitute your drive letters as needed. As always, MAKE A BACKUP FIRST! If you are still with me, here is how to do it (the easy way): Go to Link Shell Extension and download (and INSTALL) the link shell extension software (and VC runtime, follow the instructions on the site) for your flavor of Windows 7 (or barf Vista ). Make sure explorer is set to SHOW hidden and system files (Tools/Folder Options/View tab, Show hidden, uncheck Hide protected operating system and hide extensions) Create the following directories: E:\WinSystem E:\WinSystem\Windows Boot into safe mode. Open explorer and navigate to C:\Windows. Right click on the Installer directory and select CUT Navigate to E:\WinSystem\Windows right click and select paste. It should have created the directory E:\WinSystem\Windows\Installer with files in it. Right click the directory E:\WinSystem\Windows\Installer and select Pick Link Source. Navigate to C:\Windows and right click in the directory and select Drop As and select Junction. You should now see C:\Windows\Installer is back (with a wierd link on the folder icon)... The OS now will put installer files on the other drive and look for them there, but think it is still on c:! Other directories I do this with are the HP install directory (C:\SwSetup) and MS Office setup directory (C:\MSOCache). In the previous tutorials, yo learned how to move the TEMP and internet Temporary files... This is a good place for them too. Here is the directory structure on my E:\WinSystem directory: E:\WinSystem\MSOCache E:\WinSystem\SwSetup E:\WinSystem\Temp E:\WinSystem\Temporary Internet Files E:\WinSystem\Windows\Installer Just make sure to drop the junction in the same place as the original directory and the OS will be none the wiser and you will have moved GIGABYTES of seldom used stuff of your SSD (and redirected some more writes)! The only down side that I have found is as follows: If your backup strategy is like mine WAS, then you would only be making a backup image of the SSD. The problem is, that image backup software does not see that you moved the files, so they cannot copy the files in the E:\WinSystem directory with the image. The fix is quite simple if U are using Windows 7 backup: Along with the system image, have it back up the directory E:\WinSystem. Then it will keep them together and in sync (you restore the image AND the directory that went with the image). Undoing the junction is easy too, if you want to. Simply delete the junction from the C drive and move the directory back where it was (hence the reasoning I had you create WinSystem\Windows\Installer instead of WinSystem\Installer as a reminder of where the directory was when U started (thinking of WinSystem as the root)! Disclamer: Dont blame me if you bork your win7 install. Make a backup before and after you do this. If you follow the directions to the T this works perfectly I've used this same tweak to move My pictures/My documents/Downloads/Temporary Internet and many other directories off the C: Drive. If you've done all of this and made a backup you next windows installation will be a breeze. Ive got my Steam games and Everything backup up so when I do reinstall later its a snap and already updated. (Backup Often) Uploaded this Pic of how it looks on my D drive.

Everyone with an SSD knows it has limited writes. That being said, I have windows 7x64 installed on my SSD drive. Having to instal 1.08 full and soon 1.09 maybe full again. This is using writes on my SSD. (Large ones) So should I just put A10 on my WD black HDD? I like the speed increase on loads on my SSD but if its going to ruin it over time? Any thoughts? Also I used a win7 tweak to move saved games off the SSD drive A10 is istalled on. Its now saving on the WD drive so its not writing a track to my SSD everytime I fly.

98C is crazy hot if your using a 2500k or 2600k. I run my 2600k at 4.9ghz 24/7. But my temps are never over 73C with water cooling. At 5ghz its up around 75C under full load with prime95. That would be the maximum Id let these chips go on heat. 1.52v is also getting dangerous. I run 4.9ghz with 1.37v.

I can wait my SSD doesnt get here 'till monday.

Try Left CNTRL/Pause.

Hmm well in the comming weeks I'll be gettting 2x Palit 2gb gtx 560's with a 2600k rig so I'll see how that goes. Right now under heavy battle lots of models/smokes my gtx260's in SLI are giving me 80-100% performance improvement over a single gtx 260. 8fps vs 14fps on a test track.

You didnt read my post correctly. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814261099 2X560's 2GB's that 2GB per card and yes I'm aware that the 2gb is shared with each card the reason I'm going 2gb cards.

Quote: Originally Posted by Schnarre [Aggro] View Post did u get more Fps ? for instance if u have 25Fps with one Card do u get 50FPS with 2 cards or only about 30 ? Do u feel microstutters etc etc ....I really like to know . I once had a CF system (long time ago) and i just couldnt get an "at least 30% fps gain" ... for me that is clearly not working ;-) ... not to talk about the HUUUUGE inputlag of mouse and Trackir. btw... bought a 6970 ... now everything maxed out (except civTraffic and water) with 1920x1200 and not falling below 25FPs, even in Mp with 10 Player and lots of smoke and battle going on AND Mav on leftMFD and TGP on rightMFD - Thats all i need check sig for systemspecs schnarre ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Granted its low fps but this track is hard on my 2xgtx260's even more so with SLI disabled. In a couple weeks im getting a 2600k setup with 2x gtx 560 2gb's should even scale better with the sandy cpu. http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=1177073#post1177073

Im geting simalar on the track he posted but with SLI on 260's im getting about 12-18fps lookin at all that takeoff stuff. 7-10 fps with single card. And this is with a modified terrain.lua file for medium settings to make visibility further out for cities and such and my trees are at 6000. 1920x1080 4XAA HDR on water low. have a q6700 cpu at 3.5ghz pretty close to your spec. Looks to be gpu limited to me. Seems to nearly max out my gpu ram 890mb usage both cards at 60-90% gpu usage. I'll be going 2600k and gtx560 2gb sli in the next few weeks I'll post results for comparison. SLI OFF/ON

SLI doesnt work then? Hows this happening then? http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/2246/whatrl.jpg

WOW! What kinda fps are you guys getting on that replay track if you just let it play? Mine go down to 1 and 2 fps and freeze a lot. Most I see is 16 fps at the start then it just kills my machine. Everytime he looks left or right my fps freeze then goto 1 or 2 fps. Anyone else? QX6700 3.5ghz 4gb ocz ddr 800 2X gtx 260 core 216's (Tried with and without SLI) 2 7200rpm hd in raid0 Default medium setting or all high no difference. Edit: Glad someone posted this track it helped me identify a problem on my pc. I had pci latency set to 128 i set it to 32 and my fps went from 2fps up to 12-18fps when looking at the choppers and watching everything takeoff at the start. (I was also getting crackling with 128latency on this track) All runs ok now slow but there is a lot going on for my rig.

Can't wait for this one the sound since lockon in 2 speaker mode has drove me nuts for years.

Can we maybe get this put on a slider like the trees and clutter?

Is the campaigns working well enough now to try black? Oh ya hit me up on coms bro.

Same here I like the little performance boost but I dont like seeing cities grow from the ground with everything on high. Before I ran some on high and a scenes and view distance on medium and it looked better than High everything does after the patch. Now it feels like I'm flying in those areas off the mapped map if you know what i mean?

grrr doubled up.

Just drag them as long as you move all but the lead or first unit you put in the group you can space them that way.

Black pretty sure you have to be within 10nm and latch on with matching Codes then wingman just hits LSS and you should find the lazer. Least thats how we've gotten it to work in the past. We can work on this tonight if ya want Black.

Must have been some landing. :)

Follow my link to SFJackbauer's original post. Use everything in his but just change my lua file and you are done.

I did. Let me find the link. http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=67761&highlight=Plea

I've updated Jacks profile for final its in this forum prolly 2 or 3 pages in. Lots have changed since beta 4 in the options.lua so Id go ahead and use this. Only took me about 5 minutes to put all the same button presses in. http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=67761

I had a little time havent tested it yet but I did redo this profile. No changes to the SST profile just add this LUA file as per jacks original instructions found here. http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=58484 Dont forget the A and S keyboard stuff also for emergency brake. JackBauerFinal.zip

After looking at the options screen I'd say it's not a good idea to copy beta4 input folder to final release. More options available. Damn maybe tomorrow I can get around to finding the time to get this done. I made printscreens of the options and what joystick buttons were mapped to it. It's going to take some time finding out what joy button 5 ect ect actually are on my x52. If someone updates jack's .lua file to final please share it with all of us. Thanks.