My laptop has a very slow starting time for games. Is there anything I can do to improve it's performance? I turned the graphic quality way down, but I'm mostly worried about the start-up & minimize time it takes. My laptop is pretty old, like 2003.
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By slow starting time, do you mean the time it takes to load the levels before you can play them?
It could be that your hard drive needs replacement, 5 years is a long time for a HDD and its performance has most likely degraded much.
My brother's desktop hard drive is 4 years old and just this week, has started to become extremely slow, HDTune reports it has having only 6mb/sec transfer rate maximum when it used to be around 60! Games now are taking much longer to load on it.
I don't think the graphics quality would affect the start-up at all or at most a little, it will affect the performance in the game itself. -
The laptop takes a good 4 minutes during the loading up of the game, once the game's up its fine. It also takes about 2 minutes just to close. This problems been going on a while now.
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might be like Rahul said. it sounds like it could be due to your hdd getting old. perhaps replacing it with a newer one will decrease loading times. do applications also start up sluggish?
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I have the same problem with my laptop. i have bought my laptop 6 months ago.
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have you tryed cleaning c drive and partitions plus deleting old restore points and then defraging the drive.
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Yea, I'd highly recommend defragging.
My comp is pretty old too like 4 years old and when I was trying to get Need for Speed Undercover working on it, a good defrag basically solved most of my problems. -
it aint any usual problem. defragging and any kind of cleaning doesnt help. its just strange that when starting game screen turms dark and prosessor does nothing, after 2-5 minutes prosessor starts prosessing and game works fine. And when closing the game same thing happens
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post your specs man
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post your specs man
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spradhan01 Notebook Virtuoso
whats ur rig?
My laptop has a very slow starting time for games.
Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by free games, Nov 20, 2008.