low fps in windows 7

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Rado4 wrote: »

On my old pc the lowest fps i ever saw was 30 (windows xp)
On this new pc fps drops to 12 (windows 7)
Whats the problem with windows 7? below are my new pc specs, its good
Intel Celeron D 336, 3033 MHz (21 x 144)

Gigabyte GA-946GMX-S2 (2 PCI, 1 PCI-E x4, 1 PCI-E x16, 2 DDR2 DIMM, Audio, Video, Gigabit LAN)

2048 MB (DDR2-800 DDR2 SDRAM)

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT (1024 MB)

ST3250410AS ATA Device (250 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-II)

Linksys WUSB600N Wireless-N USB Adapter with Dual-Band ver. 2 (wireless internet, its very good)

Windows 7 has a lot of special effects to make it beautiful, so most of them drains a lot of ram memory. You can increase your fps just like I do which is disabling those special effects. You have 2 ways to do it. My windows 7 is not in english, so I translated it myself, but I don't think you will get lost. Looks hard to do, but it is pretty simple. You can also set your game video settings to low.

First and faster way:
Go to My Computer or Windows Explorer and right click on Computer. Click Properties.
Then look in the bottom for something like Information and tools of performance and click on it. Look for Set Visual Effects and a new window will open. Then you just need to check the option saying Set to have a better performance.

Second and longer way:
Go to control panel - security and systems - systems. Then look in the bottom for something like Information and tools of performance and click on it. Look for Set Visual Effects and a new window will open. Then you just need to check the option saying Set to have a better performance.

One more thing, if you are the kind of guy who installs a lot of things on pc, you may look for the applications who starts together with windows 7 like messengers and any application you are not using. You can also close your antivirus, they can be pretty annoying if they decide to scan or update while you are playing.