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WMP Performance Tweak?

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A Windows Media Player Trick

This pertains mainly to load times, but you may see an increase in FPS as well. Next time you run Counter-strike 1.6 or Source try leaving Windows media player idly running in the background (obviously not playing any songs). Apparently Windows Media Player will speed up the performance of your computer due to a service that it uses called, �Multimedia Class Scheduler Service�.

This article on wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_.. ) explains this service and what it does to help you gain performance.

So what this article is saying is that if you run WMP in the background and run your game at the same time you will get better performance + fps. I have tried this and yes it does work in XP and Vista.

Let the flame wars begin!

This comment was edited at 06/16/2008 11:14 AM

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Yeahhhhh

lawl

Vista only.

I have XP and it works for me.

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It is an old World of Warcracft trick;D

why cant we just isolate Multimedia Class Scheduler Service somehow so we dont have to waste resources with wmp open....

anyone know how?

doubtful this will work with todays games which eat memory

8800GT 512MB . Athlon 64 x2 5600 . 1024mb Corsair XMS2 . CoolerMaster IGreen 600w . Foxconn nForce

'Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP/2000: MMCSS is not available.'

e2160@2.7ghz | GA-P35-DS3L | 2GB XMS2 800 | XFX 9600GT | CM690

i heard this improves your server alot too, if you run one from your pc

If wishes were fishes we'd all have large aquariums

when i run win media player i dont see this service in my task manager.

also on the microsoft page it says its not available on win xp.

lll llllll

#10, it runs transparently. Most services run under the svchost.exe (service host) process.

This comment was edited at 06/16/2008 5:08 PM

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ahh, but it still says its not available for win xp/2000 so it makes me curious.

lll llllll

what version of wmp - or any will do ?

shutuporishootyouwithmysilencedignoregun

any version will do. the site suggested that you use an older addtion so it takes ever less memory to use so better boost of performance but i use wmp 11.

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hmm used it today and i havent seen any drop in fps like i usually get with certain ammount of players on the server. good stuff :D

lll llllll

YES i can confirm
this thing really impoves the performance in cod4 on winXp
results: +2 fps more with wmp ON (+/- 2fps) and +17K of DDR memory used
yea it's sarcasm :|