Want to increase you're in-game FPS?

[Kaynin]

Fun fact, media player screws up my performance. I often enjoy having it play songs in the background and it really hammers my performance for some reason. (Or maybe I should just open and not play songs?)

Do you run a multi-core computer? From current research it would appear this only effects multi-core systems and in particular AMD processors.

X9000 mobile core2xtreme (2 cores).

On my desktop PC (Q6600) I don't really notice a difference with or without media player turned on, although I'd have to check that again when I get home to do some testing. I mainly box on my laptop though and I know for a fact it's not improving for me there.

[Falkor]

Fun fact, media player screws up my performance. I often enjoy having it play songs in the background and it really hammers my performance for some reason. (Or maybe I should just open and not play songs?)

Do you run a multi-core computer? From current research it would appear this only effects multi-core systems and in particular AMD processors.

X9000 mobile core2xtreme (2 cores).

On my desktop PC (Q6600) I don't really notice a difference with or without media player turned on, although I'd have to check that again when I get home to do some testing. I mainly box on my laptop though and I know for a fact it's not improving for me there.

Both intel chips so this leads me to believe this either:
a) only effects AMD cores
b) you're graphics is already performing its max fps

[Kaynin]

It's very possible to be either or both. :P

1000 posts. O_o

[Falkor]

It's very possible to be either or both. :P

1000 posts. O_o

Gzzzzz

[Vicker]

I also am curious why you think disabling the page file would help performance. If you are actually using the page file, meaning you are swapping, and you disable it, things are going to start crashing, no? I think a better solution is to have the swap file and the wow directory (or any other disk intensive application directory, actually) on separate disks.

This. Like Bob said, if you're paging, you need the page file or worse things happen to your computer. If you're having trouble with framerates due to paging, upgrade your RAM.

Upgrading you're ram does not help you're paging
You're paging file is a allocation of virtual memory that use's you're hard disk rather then you're physical ram.

I am paging file? I am hard disk? I am physical ram?? Watch what you're saying. Some people might be insulted if you call them a paging file.

I think you missed the part where Bob mentioned that "you're" is a contraction for "you are".

[moosejaw]

There was a post in the official wow forums about the windows media player trick. IIRC it had to do the OS prioritizing things differently. If I can find the post I will link it up.
Wow forum post
Personally I have reduced the paging file size on my gaming machine(8gb ram) to 1gb. I tried to run without a paging file and there was tons of memory creep. My available ram would slowly shrink to less than 1 gb. When I enable the small page file, this stopped occuring. I guess the OS needs to write some addressing info to the page file, and if the page file isn't there maybe it writes it to physical ram?

[Hachoo]

This is a known fact that removing your paging file completely will actually reduce system performance. This happens on all operating systems, not just windows. You want at least a 100-500MB page file no matter what. I typically set mine to 512MB.

[Falkor]

When I enable the small page file, this stopped occuring. I guess the OS needs to write some addressing info to the page file, and if the page file isn't there maybe it writes it to physical ram?

Yep this is what I found out many months back, basically certain applications require a small paging file to process errors and pre-load components.
I found 256MB on both XP and Vista to be enough.

[Falkor]

This is a known fact that removing your paging file completely will actually reduce system performance. This happens on all operating systems, not just windows. You want at least a 100-500MB page file no matter what. I typically set mine to 512MB.

Not to disagree or cause an argument but my XPS laptop runs fine without a paging file Also the performance for games and applications is the same as before if not slightly better.

[Hachoo]

This is a known fact that removing your paging file completely will actually reduce system performance. This happens on all operating systems, not just windows. You want at least a 100-500MB page file no matter what. I typically set mine to 512MB.

Not to disagree or cause an argument but my XPS laptop runs fine without a paging file Also the performance for games and applications is the same as before if not slightly better.

I'm not saying it won't run good, I'm saying it can and will eventually cause performance problems over having a small paging file. If you don't believe me go read the many articles from kernel developers and other big names in operating systems for information.