Making EB Run Faster - A Guide

[GracchusTheGreat]

Concerning nVidia 3D settings:

Make sure V-Sync and Triple Buffering are set to "Force Off".

If you wanna take it further, download the utility RivaTuner. In addition to numerous other tweaks, it allows you to set the quality even lower than the nvidia control panel.

Like MSB, I too am running an Athlon 1.8 with a Geforce4 MX. After tweaking various settings to no avail, it turned out that the most effective was to set the Unit Size no greater than Large. Of course you can go lower and then increase other quality settings, but to me anything less than Large just ain't no fun.

[Good Ship Chuckle]

I would reccomend doing everything that MSB originally said you should...
EXCEPT:

DO NOT mess with the services under admistrative tools. I switched a number of them from 'automatic' to 'manual', and had number of problems connecting to the internet after that. Eventually I just turned most everything on to automatic again, to overcome the problem. I you're a pro (which I'm not) maybe you can pull it off, but for the rest of us, I would strongly recommend not messing with the services.

Other than that, everything else he says is top notch. I would especially recommend re-configuring the start-up services. Do this by running "msconfig" in run. Most of the stuff that starts up with your computer is crap anyway (crap that uses RAM).

But again...Beware of messing with administrative services...