No last minute tweaking before release.

[tomo13]

I would not advise anyone to do much tweaking in the hope of improving HL2 performance so close to release time.
I decided to tweak a few processes and such.The result....machine dead in the water.It has taken me 2 days to sort it out.
Imagine switching on and finding your PC dead on the 16th.
I'm going to defrag the harddrive and leave my machine on for the next 4 days.

 

[goldenboi]

I may overclock my 2600+ to ver 3200+ speeds :cheese:

 

[FISKER_Q]

That's why you make profiles. That way you have a couple of alternatives to fix the problem in.

Also you can use the recovery console to start up any service you might need, if that's the problem.

 

[wilka91]

another solution is having an OS installed on 2 different partitions

 

[BladeTurbo]

I would not advise anyone to do much tweaking in the hope of improving HL2 performance so close to release time.
I decided to tweak a few processes and such.The result....machine dead in the water.It has taken me 2 days to sort it out.
Imagine switching on and finding your PC dead on the 16th.
I'm going to defrag the harddrive and leave my machine on for the next 4 days.

the only thing i'm doing is a clean install of XP with all updated drivers.

 

[DiSTuRbEd]

I've cleaned out old ati drivers with driver cleaner, defragged, and am ready for HL2 now. The X800 is ready to get some! I suggest covering anything that leads to the psu on your computer, a cricket jumped into a fan on my psu, half the body is missing, half the other fell out of the psu :x Oh well it was a shitty 400W got True480W now :E