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#2350190 - 10/03/07 07:30 PM FS Auto start  
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Anybody used this for flight sims, if so, did it perform well?


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#2350191 - 10/03/07 07:37 PM Re: FS Auto start [Re: fido88]  
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I just use msconfig to set up a reboot with only system services. Then change back after my simming session and reboot as normal.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310353


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#2350199 - 10/03/07 07:49 PM Re: FS Auto start [Re: Colt40Five]  
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Thanks......


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#2350224 - 10/03/07 08:24 PM Re: FS Auto start [Re: fido88]  
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I use it. I gained about 200 MB of ram from using it. I also used it on my mother's laptop and it freed up most of her system resources.

Its nice because you can specifically see what you'll be shutting down and get a recommendation as to what to leave open.

You can shut down silly stuff that Windows runs; like programs that work with security cards (who uses that?), remote access, etc.


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#2350561 - 10/04/07 10:34 AM Re: FS Auto start [Re: RedTiger]  
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You can make a .bat file that will shutdown services and antivirus etc. before running a game. BoB2 comes with one that the developers made and it's easy to edit in your own shutdown items. You just need to reboot for them to start up again.

#2350614 - 10/04/07 12:34 PM Re: FS Auto start [Re: Pink Panther]  
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But for those (like me) who have no idea what a .bat file is. OR if you like all the stuff you have running in the background for normal operations and would like to turn them off with one click of a button for game playing and have them turn back on to bring your computer back to its normal operation after the game has stopped.....

Then FSautostart is what you need.

Simple to use, very easy and you don't need to reboot your machine to switch between "clean" and "standard" states.

I use it and no complaints.

One thing to note that if you have over a GIG of ram. Make sure you have the latest version of FSaurtostart or get the memory defrag patch. Default Fsautostart had a bug where it wouldn't detect over 1 gig of ram to defrag (not that it would cause an issue - you just won't be defragging all your available memory)

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#2350751 - 10/04/07 03:34 PM Re: FS Auto start [Re: bogusheadbox]  
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Affirmative!

This is specifically why I use it rather than other methods; the "on/off" ability. I installed in on my mother's laptop computer so she had the ability to turn off services for performance, but turn them back on again without rebooting if she needed to print something, for example.


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#2350780 - 10/04/07 04:20 PM Re: FS Auto start [Re: RedTiger]  
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#2350826 - 10/04/07 05:37 PM Re: FS Auto start [Re: bogusheadbox]  
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 Originally Posted By: bogusheadbox
One thing to note that if you have over a GIG of ram. Make sure you have the latest version of FSaurtostart or get the memory defrag patch. Default Fsautostart had a bug where it wouldn't detect over 1 gig of ram to defrag (not that it would cause an issue - you just won't be defragging all your available memory)
Defragging system memory, if that is in fact to what you are referring, is completely pointless. Defragging a physical hard drive can help improve performance because it puts all the pieces of a file in consecutive sectors on the hard drive. The physical heads and arms of the drive then don't have to jump all over the place reading a single file.

RAM write speeds are about 20 times faster than a hard drive's burst transfer rate (and that's being conservative, comparing PC3200 DDR400 memory to a SATA150 hard drive) and 40 times faster than a sustained hard drive transfer rate. RAM allocation by its very nature results in fragmented RAM contents, but that is of zero consequence because there is no time penalty retrieving data that is not stored sequentially.

#2351301 - 10/05/07 12:33 PM Re: FS Auto start [Re: Joe]  
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No idea what it really does there Joe. Its an option the FSautostart had a problem with. I could only speculate that it would try and free up physical memory but i have not looked into it. Its an option of FS autostart that i use anyway.

If anyone knows more, that would be great


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