Speed up my PC Gaming performance

I play games alot, on a slower system without issues. Most games will use as much RAM as you have. 2GB is pretty much minimum these days. Your CPU is fine, your video card is mid range, not bad.

You can help your performance as well by doing a number of things. Before I go into a gaming session, I manually kill any unneeded processes like virus checkers, software updatersspyware scans, DVD players, MSN etc.

It also helps to keep your HD unfragmented. Run defrag on a regular basis.

James

If you disable your virus-checker etc by right-clicking the relative icons in the systray, don't forget that some virus checkers have files that behave very much like the oldtime TSR's: you shut them down but they're still there!

Use TaskManager or ProcessExplorer and find anything that is related to the proggy you've just shut down and disable it. AVG is particularly naughty in this respect - even after you shut it down, your RAM still has THREE AVG processes active. These usually unnoticed processes can slow down your gaming.

I also prefer to remove the processes that are of no use while gaming:

Shut off Windows BitDefender - it has a habit of starting when you least expect it.

Also, if you use a wired/wireless network go into Network Connections and ensure that they are disabled.

Any unnecessary USB connections will also cause a scan-pass from time to time, slowing any processes slightly.