How do you disable sound acceleration and the driver memory footprint to high?
On Apr 30, 9:23 pm, Espionage724 <[email protected]> wrote: > I found these while doing some research..... Method one involves > disabling sound acceleration, method 2 is just setting the driver > memory footprint to High. Both of these helped make games run faster > on a Eee Pc with an atom cpu (method 1 sounds very promising though) > > I also tried very hard to get San Andreas run smoothly with my 1000H. > After several days I was about to give up, because even with 640x480 > and all settings minimum + Super Performance it ran very jerky in > crowded areas (newest GMA950-driver + 1206 bios) > But yesterday I found a satisfying solution! > DISABLE the sound acceleration COMPLETELY! > Not the medium or basic setting TURN IT COMPLETELY OFF! > (Open up dxdiag.exe or the audio properties under system properties to > do so). > I was really suprised that this actually did improve performance A LOT > (Seems like those EAX+DirectSound3D filters really put a lot of stress > on the tiny Atom-Core...). > The game runs now smooth on the 1000H. Not 40+fps smooth but PS2- > Version smooth (good enough for this game!). > The only minor drawback is, that the cutscenes will be slightly out of > sync with the audio (not important for me), but there are no other > audio issues (everything else during the game sounds like it should). > > So try to DISABLE the sound acceleration COMPLETELY, afterwards San > Andreas will play smooth on your 1000H! > > 1)Hughes3000 > "I got one tweak that seemed to make a huge difference for me on my > 1000h, at least in Age of Empires 3. If you go into the properties > and 3D settings you'll see an option for "driver memory footprint". > Set that **** on high. This thing likes memory. I haven't messed > around with the other options in there much but the memory settings > made a huge difference. I'm guessing this can make a lot of games > more fun on this thing." > > -- > INTEL 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS -- INTEL 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS
