rotagen 0 Posted March 3, 2007 (edited) OK, heres the deal, with my old kyroii card I noticed that turning "fast write" on in the bios made a huge increase in speed across the board every game I play. But the Radeon cards (at least my 9700) have this disabled, crutched, and hidden. Here's what worked for win98se, and may work for others. If you dont have a Radeon card, just do #3 below, that was all I needed for my kyro. 1.first go here open regedit and edit as shown <A href='http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php...#post1334832191'>http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?p=1334832191#post1334832191target="_blank">http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php...#post1334832191 http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php...#post1334832191 target="_blank">http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php...#post1334832191 2.There is a nearby entry, find it by searching in regedit for "fast write" (you may have to reopen regedit, or do this search before doing #1 above). Do the opposite of #1 (turn it on, yes to no; 0 to 1)........restart 3. Go into your bios (press del key during restart); and find the section on "fast write" and enable it Another thing I noticed is if you use sfp1 editor and extract the instantaction.ini and particlesystem.ini from flightdata.cat into the flight folder, it made the "instant action" flying a lot smoother and seems faster as well. I may try extracting a few more this way Of course, if you still have win98 like this old-fart, the "conservativeswapfileusage=1" tweak makes a HUGE difference, much faster gaming, much stabler comp. These are the tweaks that really made a difference for me, and are worth the time. LET ME KNOW IF YOU TRY THESE AND THEY WORK FOR YOU. Edited March 3, 2007 by rotagen Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander51 3 Posted March 3, 2007 I've got a really old BIOS and couldn't locate the fastwrite info :( Dunno if it has it at all. Ok that other entry you spoke of, the conservativeswapfileusage=1, where would I find that one? Don't have a Radeon card so was referring to step 3 stuff:) Craigster Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bandy 3 Posted March 5, 2007 Rotagen, Please don't mind if I ask where you got this info from. I'm not experienced with delving into the XP BIOS (or any for that matter... ) and am a little leery to try this out myself... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rotagen 0 Posted March 5, 2007 Not sure where I originally found it, sorry. Every bios is different, but it should be listed in your motherboard manual somewhere. For mine, it is under a tab called "vga". It is simply a matter of clicking it to "enabled" or "on" once you are in the bios, and then clicking "save and exit". I have never had a problem doing this. You can google "fast write and bios" and I'm sure you will find more info. For the "conservativeswapfileusage=1" this MAY NOT / PROBABLY ISN'T ?? necessary for anything other than Win98; but it helps win98 speed and stability tremendously. For this one, simply go into your "system.ini" file and under the [386Enh] section add the line ConservativeSwapFileUsage=1 I used to know all the ins and outs of why it works, and I'm sure google will help, but I just know that it works. BY ALL MEANS IF ANY OF THIS WORRIES YOU, PLEASE REFRAIN FROM TRYING IT. I tried a lot of "tweaks" most of them don't work and many are dangerous, so I understand any apprehension. Also, before using regedit for any reason, its a good idea to save the registry by selecting "export reg" or similar ; saving under c:\ as Regback1, Regback2, etc etc. Hope someone benefits, that Radeon mess was annoying to me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rotagen 0 Posted March 7, 2007 ok, an update here. After noting that fastwrite was still getting turned off by the lousy Radeon drivers. I found a solution that worked. First, make sure you have "smartgart" removed (or don't install it in the first place, just install your drivers using the windows control panel). If you have a "smart gart" tab under your display settings, run "smart gart uninstaller" http://www.treiber-koenig.de/download.php?view.80 From the rage 3D forum: Next, open regedit and change this entry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ATI Technologies\CDS000\Memory Block Write Support default Yes..... select 0, No =) as usual, when you write in "No" you must also change that last 1 to a zero. Now you have Fast Write support =) This is a Windows XP tweak BTW, im not sure if it will work in NT; but it works well in win98. Now change all your registry "fast write" entries back to "Yes" ( and 0 back to 1). Now They should stay that way. aaaaargh! (pulls out hair). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites