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SpeeDFreaK:
If you want to run Win strictly for gaming, edit your win.ini file to boot into the game's executable. No tray apps or anything. I don't know how you can get firewalls and whatnot to run while gaming with this method, but if that's all you want then go for it. If you want a firewall to run while gaming, download and install Litestep and kill every offending tray app except for the firewall.

Gooseberry Clock:

quote:Originally posted by X11:
Q3A Arena/WIndows os OpenGL based.
And DOOM 3 which is coming out soon will
also be OpenGL based.
--- End quote ---
Direct3D is faster, not to mention the fact that Quake 3 Arena sucks in general.

SpeeDFreaK:
Speaking of win2k (I don't normally do this) but you could just kill the non-essential tray apps and then kill explorer through win2k's task manager. Win2k doesn't auto-restart unelss it's killed by some error. You could restart explorer or another shell through the same method.

DIABOLUS:
A major flaw of windows is that the more programs you install, to more it bogs down- especially those programs that require a bunch of crap running in the background. Instead of hacking system files, you could simply set up your box to dual-boot and only install games, and other necessary applications on the secondary installation.

mobrien_12:

quote:Originally posted by Gooseberry Clock:
Direct3D is faster, not to mention the fact that Quake 3 Arena sucks in general.
--- End quote ---


Maybe if you use a pathetic old vid card without OpenGL acceleration, this will be true.  Any serious modern game card, from the GeForce 4 and Radeons, down to the (now) lowly GeForce2MX, is optimized to run OpenGL.

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