I have a Phenom 9600 and 4GB of RAM. When I play newer games, I'm often forced to go into Task Manager and set the game to high or real time in order to get smooth performance. The most intensive process I have running in the background is Azureus, but I've had this problem even with most of my background apps closed. This has happened with an 8800GTS, an ATI 4850, and two 4850s in xfire. Is there a driver or something I can install that can better manage my processor? Is there a setting I can change, is there something I'm doing wrong? It's very tiresome to have to set that every time I want to play a game that isn't 6 years old.
Edit: I've played games recently such as Test Drive Unlimited that ran smoothly on my old X2 3800+ (on the system that's in my sig still, actually, and also had Azureus running regularly in the background.) It's choppy on my new one, and like games such as Crysis needs to be prioritized.
Edit: I've played games recently such as Test Drive Unlimited that ran smoothly on my old X2 3800+ (on the system that's in my sig still, actually, and also had Azureus running regularly in the background.) It's choppy on my new one, and like games such as Crysis needs to be prioritized.