How to increase performance with SA:MP

[xBlueXFoxx]

Improve your FPS with SA:MP San Andreas Multiplayer


Quick video I made showing the methods I use to get 70+ FPS on SA:MP and 60+ around the ship.


1. Install the game onto a second hard drive and then play.
2. Run the game, alt tab out open up task manager, go to processes and look for "GTA_SA.exe", or something similar. Then right click it, go to set priority, change it to "above normal".
3. Makes sure you have good cooling. (not needed)
4. While in-game, hit F7 and your FPS will jump up anywhere between +5-20 higher than the original amount.
5. Defrag.

[Jay]

Nice work

Done

[Matthias]

Nice vid, I forgot about disabling visual effects for gaming, great idea.

Woehoe for LVP Launcher!

[[SAE]Grim]

Can I ask a question? About the defragment part, I'd like to do that if it helps the computer, but I've read on a few sites where they say defragment damages ur computer after a while, because defragmenting leaves some empty "spots" or something.. if u know what im talkin about.

Is that true? I dont really know much about defragmenting stuff so  yea

[Matthias]

@ Grim: other sites say it doesn't damage anything but it doesn't help anything either. I'm kinda confused on what to believe

[Weezy]

What a sexy voice... I get a boner everytime I hear it. Nah jk.. Good video

[xBlueXFoxx]

Grim link=topic=27234.msg361437#msg361437 date=1292172321]
Can I ask a question? About the defragment part, I'd like to do that if it helps the computer, but I've read on a few sites where they say defragment damages ur computer after a while, because defragmenting leaves some empty "spots" or something.. if u know what im talkin about.

Is that true? I dont really know much about defragmenting stuff so  yea

Actually hard drives are like any other kind of dive, like a CD for instance, it has an image that holds data, after a while those images slowly get mangled and out of order. A hard drive defrag well.. does what it's name it, defragments those images and makes them all one section, allowing your hard drive to access it faster. With auslogics it also has the optimize feature, allowing it to organize your hard drive and make everything run better. You can prolly' find a more detailed example somewhere on this internet, but this is the dumbed down version of what it does.


Can it damage your hard drive? Well modern hard drives such as pretty much anything Sata will handle if fine, constantly 'defragging' a hard drive can cause damage to the actual disk, but yeah a defrag once every week or two will not harm anything, it will be fine.

[Edit] Most defrag tools, I think auslogics has it, you can set up a scheduled defrag for "one a week, month at this time" blah blah, pretty useful if you're someone who likes to keep things organized.

[Edit #2 (haha I'm reading shiz)]

Although this all happens quickly, it makes a lot of work for your hard disk. Its read/write head, which moves across the drive platter from location to location transferring data, has to zip all over the place when saving or opening a single highly fragmented file. (By the way, many disks have more than one read/write head and multiple platters.) If a file is unfragmented, the disk head moves to one location, reads the file in one sequential swoop, and that's it.

A file stored in, say, four fragments, can easily take twice as long to open as the same file unfragmented, although the actual performance hit you take is affected by other factors, including the total size of the file.

Pretty much saying not defragging can cause issues with your hard disk.

[David_GER]

I got a lil tip for people that got 2 or more cores.
If GTA SA is running minimize it and go to task manager, then right click the process "gta_sa.exe" and choose "set affinity...". Usually it only runs on "CPU 0" but you can mark the others too. Its pretty useful if you got a weak quad core like I do. Only annoying thing is that you have to do it everytime you join a server cause it doesnt save.

[[SAE]Grim]

Aight thanks.
I'll try out that tool u suggest and try it once

[MaZ]

I got a lil tip for people that got 2 or more cores.
If GTA SA is running minimize it and go to task manager, then right click the process "gta_sa.exe" and choose "set affinity...". Usually it only runs on "CPU 0" but you can mark the others too. Its pretty useful if you got a weak quad core like I do. Only annoying thing is that you have to do it everytime you join a server cause it doesnt save.

for some reason if i do this (using a quad core AMD athlon 2 Phenom x4 945 @ 3.2Ghz overclocked) my aiming isnt smooth, my mouse gets stuck ingame and so on, any explination?