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Questions about turning off Superfetch and Gaming Performace
  1. #1


    ByronGman Guest

    Questions about turning off Superfetch and Gaming Performace

    Hello everyone!

    I recently bought Crysis and have been running it on my laptop. I can play
    the game with most settings on HIGH and just get a few slow downs when the
    action is heavy. In the interest of of tweaking my performance to the
    maximum, I was browsing about and saw someone mention that turning off the
    Vista Superfetch feature improved their gameplay significantly.

    Now I happen to like Vista's efficiency management, with the sole exception
    that when I run a game like Crysis I want all background task at an absolute
    minimum.



    So my question has several parts:

    How do I turn off Superfetch in Windows Vista Home Premium? Someone said you
    could do this using the control panel. If your method involves the command
    prompt or something intense, please list the steps in detail.

    How do I turn Superfetch on again? And is there any wrong with continually
    switching this feature on and off?

    Is there a way I can set-up Superfetch so that it works with only certain
    profiles on my computer. In other words, can I set-up a "Gaming" user profile
    where Superfetch will remain off, and have Superfetch set to come on when I
    access my primary profile? So basically I could just log off and log in again
    when I wanted to play a game.

      My System SpecsSystem Spec

  2. #2


    Andrew Martin Guest

    Re: Questions about turning off Superfetch and Gaming Performace

    Hi,

    You can disable and enable Superfetch by typing 'Services' into the Start
    Menu. Scroll down the list of services until your find SuperFetch then
    double click it to access the options such as enable, disable, pause etc.
    I'm unsure if there is any negative effect of turning it on and off
    frequently but I would imaine there wouldn't be any issues.

    I can't think of anyway to create a gaming profile as such, perhaps you
    could write a script which disables any services you want to save you having
    to manually select them, and then another one to renable them after you've
    finished gaming.

    As for whether it would improve your performance, Superfetch should
    automatically be running in the lowest priority mode when your running
    Crysis, and any memory currently used by Superfetch would be automatically
    released should the application need it.

    Hope this is of use,

    Regards

    Andrew

    "ByronGman" <ByronGman@xxxxxx> wrote in message
    news:14A38791-5657-459E-866D-513B2750F4DA@xxxxxx

    > Hello everyone!
    >
    > I recently bought Crysis and have been running it on my laptop. I can play
    > the game with most settings on HIGH and just get a few slow downs when the
    > action is heavy. In the interest of of tweaking my performance to the
    > maximum, I was browsing about and saw someone mention that turning off the
    > Vista Superfetch feature improved their gameplay significantly.
    >
    > Now I happen to like Vista's efficiency management, with the sole
    > exception
    > that when I run a game like Crysis I want all background task at an
    > absolute
    > minimum.
    >
    > So my question has several parts:
    >
    > How do I turn off Superfetch in Windows Vista Home Premium? Someone said
    > you
    > could do this using the control panel. If your method involves the command
    > prompt or something intense, please list the steps in detail.
    >
    > How do I turn Superfetch on again? And is there any wrong with continually
    > switching this feature on and off?
    >
    > Is there a way I can set-up Superfetch so that it works with only certain
    > profiles on my computer. In other words, can I set-up a "Gaming" user
    > profile
    > where Superfetch will remain off, and have Superfetch set to come on when
    > I
    > access my primary profile? So basically I could just log off and log in
    > again
    > when I wanted to play a game.

      My System SpecsSystem Spec

  3. #3


    Andy [YaYa] Guest

    Re: Questions about turning off Superfetch and Gaming Performace

    I love a challenge...

    I've never done this, but if you want to disable SuperFetch before firing
    off Crysis you could try a batch file.

    Open Notepad, and enter the following lines:

    NET STOP SuperFetch
    START /WAIT "C:\Program Files\EA Games\Crysis\Crysis.exe"
    NET START SuperFetch

    Note, the path to Crysis may be wrong (line 2), I don't have the game
    running on my system, If you, right click the Crysis game icon and choose
    Properties the "Target:" line you just copy between the quotes in line 2.

    Save the notepad file on your desktop as Crysis.BAT or Crysis.CMD will work
    too.

    Run the file, Vista will kill SuperFetch and start Crysis (The window will
    stay up while you're playing), once you exit the game it'll restart
    Superfetch.

    Hope it helps,
    A.

    p.s. DOS Batch file coding is a lost art.

    "Andrew Martin" <andrew@xxxxxx-m.co.uk> wrote in message
    news:BA19B965-B8F8-4D72-ACC5-4AA748CBA995@xxxxxx

    > Hi,
    >
    > You can disable and enable Superfetch by typing 'Services' into the Start
    > Menu. Scroll down the list of services until your find SuperFetch then
    > double click it to access the options such as enable, disable, pause etc.
    > I'm unsure if there is any negative effect of turning it on and off
    > frequently but I would imaine there wouldn't be any issues.
    >
    > I can't think of anyway to create a gaming profile as such, perhaps you
    > could write a script which disables any services you want to save you
    > having to manually select them, and then another one to renable them after
    > you've finished gaming.
    >
    > As for whether it would improve your performance, Superfetch should
    > automatically be running in the lowest priority mode when your running
    > Crysis, and any memory currently used by Superfetch would be automatically
    > released should the application need it.
    >
    > Hope this is of use,
    >
    > Regards
    >
    > Andrew
    >
    > "ByronGman" <ByronGman@xxxxxx> wrote in message
    > news:14A38791-5657-459E-866D-513B2750F4DA@xxxxxx

    >> Hello everyone!
    >>
    >> I recently bought Crysis and have been running it on my laptop. I can
    >> play
    >> the game with most settings on HIGH and just get a few slow downs when
    >> the
    >> action is heavy. In the interest of of tweaking my performance to the
    >> maximum, I was browsing about and saw someone mention that turning off
    >> the
    >> Vista Superfetch feature improved their gameplay significantly.
    >>
    >> Now I happen to like Vista's efficiency management, with the sole
    >> exception
    >> that when I run a game like Crysis I want all background task at an
    >> absolute
    >> minimum.
    >>
    >> So my question has several parts:
    >>
    >> How do I turn off Superfetch in Windows Vista Home Premium? Someone said
    >> you
    >> could do this using the control panel. If your method involves the
    >> command
    >> prompt or something intense, please list the steps in detail.
    >>
    >> How do I turn Superfetch on again? And is there any wrong with
    >> continually
    >> switching this feature on and off?
    >>
    >> Is there a way I can set-up Superfetch so that it works with only certain
    >> profiles on my computer. In other words, can I set-up a "Gaming" user
    >> profile
    >> where Superfetch will remain off, and have Superfetch set to come on when
    >> I
    >> access my primary profile? So basically I could just log off and log in
    >> again
    >> when I wanted to play a game.
    >

      My System SpecsSystem Spec

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