grahamcoleman

Hi there,

Like all of you there are times when I need to watch the match to see where I'm going wrong, but sometimes I'd like to be able to speed it up, say going into a cup game I know I'm going to win etc. My PC isn't the best, is a 1.5g celeron with 512 MB RAM

Here's what I'm doing, can anyone suggest is there anything else:

1) Match Speed - I have the match speed and highlight speed set to the highest, with only text commentary and highlights off.

2) Patch - I've downloaded the newest patch (8.0.2) and am starting a new game using this

3) Other Tweaks - to improve in general I've minimised the game detail from other games, turned off the news bar, and made some changes to minimise what I see in the Transfer Centre

4) Virtual Memory - I've increased the VM (doubled it)

5) Process Priority - I've set the priority for the process (in the task manager) to be the highest

6) "GameGain" - I'm using a tool called Game Gain that gives some increased performance in games, it's a bit like the FM Speeder thing people mention, but appears to be more robust etc. They don't claim to make massive increases, something like 2-5% I think

Can anyone think of anything else I can do (bar by a new PC / RAM) to help with increasing the actual match speed? It's more this, than the overall game speed that is the problem I think.

Cheers

retired_syling28

You really won't be able to get any more out of the game with that spec machine, that is pretty much the lowest spec machine the game can run on. Sorry!

retired_turfcat

turn off all the graphics and stuff. have you switched off virus program ??

grahamcoleman

yeah I understand that about the PC, thought it would be a bit more playable just - like for example I noticed a half was taking about 3-4 mins to play at the fastest speed. What would that be on a higher spec PC?

About the graphics - yeah I will try to decrease everything in the preferences later, see if that helps

grahamcoleman

virus programs - yeah I've unplugged from the Internet when playing, and stopped the virus checker and Firewall. Also don't have anything else running on the PC at the same time

retired_syling28

It depends how much action a match has as to how long it will last. Typically a half on a high spec machine will take about 1-3 minutes.

You can also try doing various things for your computer: Defrag, do a scan on your hard drive for errors, perform a disk cleanup - all that kind of stuff. Won't make much difference though, unless your hard drive is particularly fragmented.

retired_dancingneko

You seem to have adopted every possible "speeder-upper" barring obtaining new RAM or PC.

But more RAM is exactly what you need.....

retired_jessicanicholls

From what I can see, you've done all you can without upgrading, mate. Doesn't have to be massively expensive, though. Buying another half-gig of RAM would help a bit.
All depends on what you can/want to afford and if you can/want to justify the outlay.

grahamcoleman

I actually did run a defrag, and have a RAM booster running.

I'm in denial about buying more RAM just, see that probably won't fix it, when my processor isn't up to it either

grahamcoleman

QUESTION - if I did increase from 512MB RAM to 1024 with the same 1.5g processor, any ideas (and I know it's a guess) how much that would improve things, or is the processor the more important part for this sort of thing