my comp is slowing down...
well I bought my 1GHz eMac last august and its starting to slow down..
The only thing that has really changed since I bought it is all the anime ive been downloading off the net (roughly 20 gigs of anime and the few codecs and media players needed to view them).
One of the main things being effected by the slow down is WarCraft III:TFT it ran at full resolution and all settings on high with no lag when I first bought my computer. Ive had to lower all the settings atleast 3 times and now im still getting a lot of lag in the game. To the point where ive stopped playing altogether.
So is there anyway to speed up my computer again? or do I have to wipe my hard drive and reinstall panther?
The only thing that has really changed since I bought it is all the anime ive been downloading off the net (roughly 20 gigs of anime and the few codecs and media players needed to view them).
One of the main things being effected by the slow down is WarCraft III:TFT it ran at full resolution and all settings on high with no lag when I first bought my computer. Ive had to lower all the settings atleast 3 times and now im still getting a lot of lag in the game. To the point where ive stopped playing altogether.
So is there anyway to speed up my computer again? or do I have to wipe my hard drive and reinstall panther?
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wow, you really need to get that fixed.
Originally posted by costique
Hard disk fragmentation should not dramatically influence WarCraft. Most likely, it's some background processes. Try running top in Terminal to check for either RAM-greedy or CPU-greedy processes.
I know the top cmd. I know to check cpu greedy processes, but how/where to check ram greedy processes? Thank you in advance
Originally posted by ipodandimac
large multimedia files fragment the disk. OS X AUTOMATICALLY defrags, but if you have 20 gigs of anime (porn probably), then that would keep it slowwwwwwwwwweeeeeedddddddd ddddddddooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnnnnn.
wow, you really need to get that fixed.
At the risk of sounding "n00bish" how do I run "top" in the terminal?
And no... its not porn. I would rather watch shows with a meaningfull story.
Originally posted by The-guy-who-loves-mac-stuff
At the risk of sounding "n00bish" how do I run "top" in the terminal?
And no... its not porn. I would rather watch shows with a meaningfull story.
launch terminal, type in "top", hit enter, there you go.
you will see a list of *all* apps running, and how much cpu power
actually they are consuming.