{"id":39,"date":"2008-04-05T10:36:44","date_gmt":"2008-04-05T16:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/?p=39"},"modified":"2008-04-05T10:38:53","modified_gmt":"2008-04-05T16:38:53","slug":"best-of-tsf-crysis-on-a-new-vista-install","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/2008\/04\/best-of-tsf-crysis-on-a-new-vista-install\/","title":{"rendered":"Crysis on a new Vista install."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>joeitalo writes that after reinstalling Windows Vista, the system&#8217;s performance of the video game Crysis became significantly worse.  After checking that it wasn&#8217;t a DirectX issue (always checkable by hitting Win+R and typing in &#8220;dxdiag&#8221;) he realized that he was running an antivirus, and temporarily turning it off restored the performance of the machine.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s essential in resource-intensive games like Crysis,  you want the system to be doing as little else as possible.  Check your system tray, close everything that isn&#8217;t absolutely essential.  Hit Ctrl+Alt+Delete and start the Task Manager, and terminate any non-essential processes.  After doing this your CPU Usage should be sitting at 0%.  It can always be a graphics problem as well; Crysis makes most gaming rigs cry.  Try stepping down the resolution, then stepping down Anti-Aliasing, then stepping down detail settings until you find something usable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>joeitalo writes that after reinstalling Windows Vista, the system&#8217;s performance of the video game Crysis became significantly worse. After checking that it wasn&#8217;t a DirectX issue (always checkable by hitting Win+R and typing in &#8220;dxdiag&#8221;) he realized that he was running an antivirus, and temporarily turning it off restored the performance of the machine. That&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-of-tsf","tag-tsf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1RwV4-D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}