Nick,

I am about to change my motherboard so I can OC my Q6600. I already have 4gb of 800 DDR2 RAM. I have been using Vista 32 so I haven't been getting the full RAM as I should. I had planned to use Vista 64 when I change the MB.

Are you saying I should go to XP instead? Will my RAM be wasted? I'm not using DX10 now anyway in Vista.

What do you suggest?

Also, do you have the complete optimization in PDF form? I'd like to print it. I don't know which version of the guide to use.

Nick:  great to see that you are still with us.  I thought you had gone for good.  Keep up the suggestions.

But I will say this.  Vista 64bit accesses the whole 4 gigs, and lets FSX use as much as available.

With DDR3 and the new chips to come soon, then FSX will hum on Vista - its doing pretty darn good for me already.

It would be great if you could loosen up and dive into the Vista OS.  We need you there.  Remember many of us have chosen the latest system- some with no choice, and we'd really like to know how to cut out the unnecessary processes and cosmetics.

Nevertheless, my warmest regards,

Yes it was a LOL, and thanks for taking it that way.

But sometimes you're a bit like the preachers I remember from my youth, stern and disciplined and unyielding in the face of developments they think will corrupt the young.

Good to read you again.

NickN wrote on May 2^nd, 2008 at 4:21pm:



Defragging regularly is a good idea.....I use Ultimate Defrag.....Folder Name Consolidation and it does make a difference.

Thanks Nick,  It took me a little while to see that they were testing an over-clocked GTS, which doesn't seem all that fair, in that the GTX can be overclocked substantially too (though I haven't done so) and it would no doubt race ahead on the testbed.

Until the next gen cards come out the GTX 768 will do me fine.  Obviously like many I would look forward to your comments when the new 'tock' CPUs and videocards arrive in a few months.

Nick I have gone through your setup at the beggining  of this post using Vista 32. My system is pretty weak. Athlon 64 3400, Nvidia 7800GS. 2 gigs of ram. I have not had a chance to check out my performance in FSX since it is still doing the Full name defrag for the first time in O&O 10. ( my system shut downs and restarts have been 1000 times faster)  Now here is my question.

I have all ready owned version 10 of O&O for about 2 months before trying your settings in this thread.  I have only done the full system defrag and have probably done it 6 times. I had never used space defrag from the drop down menu or an offline defrag.  I went ahead and did the space defrag twice like your post said (never do more than 2 space defrag passes with version 10)  Should I have done that even though I had all ready used Version 10 before for defragging? What exactly is the space defrag problem in O&O 10. Did I do something wrong or was this still the correct order?

I started the full name defrag last night around mid-night and it was telling me I still had 5 hours to go when I left for work this morning (7am) . Does that seem like an excessive amount of time are is this normal for my first run after doing 2 space defrags and a defrag before bootup ( I believe when it came up to the blue defrag screen before startup it said Stealth).

Sorry for the questions but I am worried that I did something wrong by doing the 2 space defrags even though I had used the program before. I am jumping the gun because I havn't even had a chance to touch the computer to check performance but the little nagging voice in my head is saying I should have asked before doing the space defrags.



Thanks for everything you are an awesome man for putting the time in to help everybody out. Your paitence amazes me.



Chris




Now I read the post above me and version 11 is out. I am sure since I just bough 10 that I can upgrade ( at least I hope) should I and should I start the whole procedure again from the beggining?

NickN wrote on Sep 16^th, 2008 at 11:01am:


Nick thanks for the quick reply.

I noticed when I got home and the first Complete-name defragging had finished, that there was now alot of space between the clusters as stated in your post. After my first 2 space defrags it looked so nice an tidy, LOL. I rebooted and it is now doing its second Complete-name defrag, it says it will take 3 hours. After that your post says to do one more offline defrag. Will that fix the spaces between my clusters? Should I keep doing name defrag until my clusters go back to having 0 space between them?  Any further help is greatly appreciated. I know you have a TON of stuff on your plate right now so if you don't have time to further explain I would totally understand.


Thanks again.


Chris

Mobayrasta1 wrote on Sep 16^th, 2008 at 2:13pm:


Chris,

I hope you don't mind me butting into your conversation, however after reading your post, I'm having a flashback of when I used to use O&O v10.  The problem you're having is the very reason why v10 is flawed when used with Vista.  As Nick said, during the defrag free space will be left inbetween the clusters.  I used to be able to get the clusters a little closer together, but that was only after multiple consecutive name defrags.  However even after all that, there was still free space inbetween the clusters.  Save yourself the headache and switch to O&O v8.6 for use with Vista.  The people at O&O have been very helpful with the Simviation community and I'll bet they will send you a link to download v8.6, as you're already a customer who purchased v10.  They did for me.  

As for v11, I don't know if O&O addressed the v10 issues in v11.  If you decide to contact O&O, maybe they can answer that question.  Good luck.