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[DDR-PIII]

If I were to switch from explorer to say umm.... Litestep would that free up more CPU power for seti to use ?

 

[DDR-PIII]

and would it work with windows xp pro ?

 

[JigPu]

... Dunno .... Somebody has got to try that out! See if your CPU dedication increases, or your CpF decreases (unlikely). Haven't been reading up on Litestep lately, so I don't know if it works with XP.

JigPu

 

[DDR-PIII]

I'm giving it a try right now I'll let you's know the outcome of this

 

[DDR-PIII]

seems to be the same.

 

[Cuper]

too bad Good try tho

 

[rogerdugans]

Constantly searching for ways to improve output in any LEGIT way possible is always a good thing

Good try, even if it didn't work out, this time

 

[Mictlan]

I really don't think that it would free so much cycles. When the computer is idle (including that the screensaver is off, no mouse movement) the windows GUI is not really doing anything. I have checked with the System Tray (Crtl+Alt+Del in any Windows NT OS) and both instances of SETI are running very close to 50%.....That's in a dual rig with XP Pro .....one of the instances goes as low as 49% when I'm moving the mouse but so far that's all the resources Windows are using. This might be an issue if you have small amounts of memory but with 256 MB at least I don't see any improvements.....

 

[TC]

A good thing to try is disabling unnecessary services. There are some tweak guides. I'll try to dig them up.

 

[Digital Pimp]

yup, disabling services can improve times, i think i went up ~5% after disabling the unused ones, i only had 128mb ram at the time tho.

Digital

 

[SpeeDj]

I could have sworn a ways back there were some guys who actually ran Seti CLC as their gui so when it loaded that is all it loaded. Perhaps that would be a help? Just my two cents...

J

 

[DDR-PIII]

yeah I think that would work also