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Offline GlennP

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Gaming Profile?
« on: November 18, 2009, 05:22:39 PM »
A few years back I used your hardware profile for XP to create a faster hardware profile while playing games online.  It appears from reading an existing thread here that you cannot do that in Vista?  If so, do you have any suggestions for something comparable in Vista?  I would only use this while gaming online, not for surfing the net.  I usually reboot after I finish my game and go back to a safer configuration before going back on the internet.
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Offline Nigel Spike

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Re: Gaming Profile?
« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2009, 09:35:57 AM »
Vista creates an "undocked profile" at setup, seemingly to be used for laptops. It can be accessed from the services login tab. AFAIK that's the only one available, and you cannot create any profiles on your own.

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Re: Gaming Profile?
« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2009, 10:00:35 AM »
Hardware profiles are no longer supported in Vista or Windows 7 like they were in XP, unfortunately.
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Offline string

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Re: Gaming Profile?
« Reply #3 on: January 02, 2010, 04:29:45 PM »
Vista Services Optimizer (which mentions blackviper.com as a reference source) has a gaming mode setup where it will turn off all of what it considers nonessential services for gaming. My favorite is too old to be a problem, but maybe it will help with new releases? 8)
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Offline BennyLava

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Re: Gaming Profile?
« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2010, 09:11:17 PM »
I think he is referring to anything that might actually hinder online gaming, though.

But AMD has something similar, but you can only use it on an AMD computer. I think it's called Overdrive or Fusion or something like that. It's free, but it's basically just a service disabler. However I think that it unfortunately brings them all back to life once you exit the game.
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Offline GlennP

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Re: Gaming Profile?
« Reply #5 on: February 08, 2010, 04:36:43 PM »
Well, I guess I'll give the "Tweaked" configuration a shot.  I've tried using "End-It-All" but that really hasn't helped.  It seems like when I'm online gaming that every 5-10 minutes the system tries to check something and I get a momentary glitch that kills when gaming online. I don't know if it's Defender or Firewall and can't figure how to temporarily turn them off completely.
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