Frames Per Second in COD2, BF2, or BF2142 and processes running

What kinds of FPS are you getting with those games and what resolution and graphics card. I have the 7600go

other then that... any of you have alot of processes running on you task manager?? mine gets up too 71 when playing a game.. it should be alot lower I would think..

 

what are the rest of your specs?

 

when playing a game the number of processes should be 1 (2 if steam is needed or something similar) than normal, my processes is about 50 (which is quite high)

 

sorry... It's a HP dv9334 (1.73ghz Duo 2), (2gb ram), 160 HDD 17" screen, 7600 go 512mb

I don't know why there are soo many processes running... that crazy

 

1) Check your system tray, and cancel anything you don't need and then remove it from the startup folder, this'l cause them to stop from starting when Windows does.
2) It could be you are infected with a virus or adware. I'd recommending "adaware SE" for removing the adware and spyware, and "NOD32" for viruses, but you can use AVG antivirus if you want to do it free.
3) Is your computer new? New computers come with a lot of bundled software, and some of these run the whole time as processes.
4) Root through you add/remove list and remove everything you don't use.
This is all common sense really Its also all that I can think of that may fix your trouble. There are special versions of task manager that tell you where unnecessary processes are, one of them is called security task manager I think.
Good luck

 

ok, i'll try that when I get home.. Also the laptop is new! only about a week old or so. I guess i can stop alot of the processes that have my username that I don't need right? other them that what about services?? should i worry about that?

 

I'm not sure about services. You can google most of your processes and it will say what you can disable and what you cant. I would urge extreme caution with ending processes however as you can royally bone your settings. Don't stop anything like svchost.exe or dllhost.exe , you'll read these may be viruses, but they can also be important processes. there will be multiple instances of svchost.exe , and there is usually one that takes up quite a bit of mem , that one is probably managing your theme. If you disable it it'll give you a basic theme with a grey windows taskbar among other things. As I said, it probably makes sense to google what you can stop and what you can't
GL

 

I mostly agree with beattie010. Mostly.
Use Google to look up each process, and get rid of it if you determine it's harmless.

But it's not harmful to just stop a process in task manager without checking what it is. The few important ones are protected by Windows, so if you try to stop them, you'll get a message saying something like "This is an essential system service, and can't be closed".
Everything *can* be closed safely, even if it does disable functionality on your system. But if you reboot, it'll be back to normal.
It's only when you change which processes are started when the computer boots, that you need to be careful.

 

To answer the original topic, geforce 7900 GS, 55 processes.... windows vista... 1920x1200, call of duty 2, 0xaa 4xaf max detail except medium shadows... 50 fps average.

http://www.its.caltech.edu/~qiong/shot0008.jpg

 

love the screen shot...this makes it so tempting to put my call of duty 2 back on my laptop and crank it up hehe

 

1. 40 Processes running not counting BF2142.
2. 25+ FPS 95% of the time with 2xAA, I cant play any BF game without at least 2xAA.
3. 2 gigs of RAM