F3Ka FPS Drop?

Hi,
I have read in a lot of places that Asus has a lot of programs installed that you really don't need, what are these programs so I could uninstall them? I am having this problem when I open up a game(counterstrike) my FPS would usually stay at 99. If I open up firefox, MSN, iTunes, or basically anything my FPS would start dropping to 10, going back up to 40, down again, back up to around 80, and keeps on going up and down. I mean I used to play this game on my old notebook with a Pentium M and 1GB of RAM and it wouldn't go this bad when I turn anything on with the game.
Any help would be appreciated.

 

cs 1.6? source?
since you have a dual core i usually just set the affinity of counter-strike to one of the cores and then set it to real time

 

LoL put it on 1 Core? are you keeding me?

But anyways, I worked for asus support for about a year and I own an F3KA A1 Myself and plays the same game you are playing CS Source/1.6

F3KA A1 only comes with minor bloatwares or not even at all. BUT if you want a clean install without bloatwares, you might want to do a recovery on your DVD recovery disc that came with it. Just reboot your computer and hit F2 for recovery then it will show up a prompt if you want to boot on the DVD or just a quick recovery, and it will give you three choices if you want to recover whole hard drive with 2 partions , 1 partion, or just recover on the first partion.

And again, F3KA got some problems with the hard drive light, even if you are not doing anything, the hard drive light will light up constantly(due to indexing).(this trashes your hard drive quick) solution is to disable "super fetch" run msconfig go to services and uncheck super fetch. Another thing is to disable your index. Go to my computer right click on C: or D: where ever you have all your files. Click properties and there should be a box that is check. Uncheck that and wait for a couple of minutes and it will disable indexing.

For Gaming Bro, This machine is best bung for the buck and its pretty impressive, I play Crysis , Call of duty 4 all on extra High, hellgate , Unreal tournament, Guildwars, No problem at all.

 

Dude I play TF2 and CS and all that, I have 5 windows up on firefox with around 10 tabs each, listening to music and i don't have much or a downfall on fps. It hardly even hitts me.

 

See I have the F3KA-X2 I think, it is the AMD Turion 64 1.9GHZ dual core. I have 2.4GB of RAM. My old laptop would not matter the FPS when I have firefox or iTunes open. I am only playing 1.6 not even Source so thats why I don't understand what happens.

Should I try the playing the game on one core and using the other for the rest? How would I do that?

About the "hard drive light" and disabling "indexing", should I do that now or were you telling me what you did?

I have already did a Recovery for Vista with the DVD I got when it came.

 

I am actually not kidding you.. CS 1.6 and Counter-strike Source are not multithreaded anyways source engine 2007 is though, but still setting realtime priority on hl.exe or hl2.exe keeps any other applications from stealing any cpu time from it which causes random drops in fps

This is only a temporary fix though.

What you can do if you havn't already is try applying the dual core hotfix described in this thread
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=60416
it apparantly gives very large performance boosts
also even though you have an amd, i read that you should just get the hotfixe as the amd dual core optimizer is incompatible with some systems(causes blue screens)

 

This hotfix is for XP. I am using Vista Home Premium at the moment.
I will try to put the hl.exe on high priority and see how that would work.

 

i'd do realtime

 

high is the highest level I can go

 

So... Is Superfetch still a problem? I recently bought this f3ka on newegg.com(799.99). The hd or light iois blinking more then it should be. Im also new to vista and I dont know where the 'run' opttion in the start menu. Frozenchips i need your help!

 

Oh, I have the same exact laptop and I bought it from newegg.com right before they went down to 799.99. I got it for 849.99. What hard drive blinking are you talking about? I have all the programs that came with my laptop but I did the recovery DVD that came with the laptop to reinstall vista and the asus softwares.

What happens when I put it on High priority, my fps would kind of stay up at 99 but goes down a little and you could feel it. If you don't feel it I wouldn't care...

 

I may have misunderstood something in frozenchips's message. Maybe we should start a forum for how to better f3ka x2.

 

Yea, I will just open a new thread with f3ka-x2. Please close this thread down.

 

mjfrozenchips is correct, disable superfetch in Vista will increase gaming performance and in some cases stability.

Superfetch is essentially a function built in Windows Vista (Vista will try to determine which program you use next and will always have these programs in access in the memory [am I correct?]).

You can disable it in the "services" function in administrative tools. (I'll have to double check with my Vista and hopefully I didn't disable the wrong one [I think I disabled Readyboost instead of Superfetch).

 

yep, from Microsoft itself, the functions of Vista of course.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/features/details/performance.mspx

 

Yep, Superfetch can be turned off in the "services" section in administrative tools.

To get another squeeze of performance out of Vista, turn off indexing. You can see it when you select properties of one drive.

 

Turned both of them off, hopefully it will do it. How do you set the priority for a program? Like I want hl.exe to always have High Priority (it would never let me do real time). What would I do?

 

iTunes is really bloated in Windows. You should delete some of the windows services that are installed if you don't need an up-to-the-minute automatic updater, iPhone support, and other sneaky resource hoggers. If you don't have an iPod, I suggest you just uninstall iTunes and use something like Foobar 2000 or WMP11.

 

I don't really use an iPod anymore. I have it on because I am used to how it works, window media player is a little confusing after you get used to iTunes. How do you turn off these windows services? I am not going to be buying an iPhone so I am not going to need that support.