Optimizing Windows 7 for game play

[Ol Smoke]

Reducing latency for games:

 

 

Re: Optimizing the Network and Internet On Windows 7

When you play in a network (local or Internet), the latency is very important. It corresponds to the response time between when you press a button or move the mouse and when the desired action is executed in the game by default, Windows combines small packets into one before sending (algorithm Nagle). By disabling this feature, small packets will be transferred immediately, without delay, thus reducing your latency.

Caution, this can slow down your file transfers. To implement so when you want to play network games and just after your downloads. Note that this operation is valid for Windows Vista (with SP1) and Windows 7.

Click the Start button. In the Search field, type the command regedit.

Click the right mouse button on the program regedit.exe and select Run as administrator.

Unroll the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, SYSTEM, CurrentControlSet, Services, Tcpip, Parameters, Interfaces.

Then open the key) (NIC NIC which is the identifier of your network card. To find the right key, open them all, but is that where your local IP address is specified (if you do not know, use the ipconfig command )

Click the Edit menu, click New then DWORD Value 32bit.

Name the new value TcpAckFrequency and double click it.

Enter 1 in the Value Data field and click OK.

Pull the key from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, SOFTWARE, Microsoft, MSMQ.

Click the Edit menu, click New then click Key.

Name the new key Parameters.

Click the Edit menu, click New then DWORD Value 32bit.

Name the new value TCPNoDelay and double click it.
Enter 1 in the Value Data field and click OK.
Finally close the registry editor and reboot your computer to apply changes.

 

http://forums.techarena.in/tips-tweaks/1335052.htm

Enable overload control CTCP:

 

 

To avoid network congestion, Windows uses default algorithms former compatible with both the weak Internet connections and broadband connections. New algorithms suitable for broadband connections (ADSL and cable) are present in Windows Vista and Windows 7. You can turn to speed data transfer over the Internet.

 

Click the Start button.

In the Search field, type cmd.

Click the right mouse button on the program cmd.exe and select Run as administrator.

In the Command Prompt window that appears, enter the following command:

Code:

netsh int tcp set global congestionprovider = ctcp

Confirm with Enter.

Close the Command Prompt window and reboot your computer to apply the change.

 

 

 

 

 

I have tried this and did see improvement in gameplay. 

 

 

Smoke

[Spyderwebber]

Thanks for this Smoke!  I did try this and I saw an improvement in game performance (not necessarily mine but....).

[Papito]

This should be in Tutorials