I can't take this anymore

[Cenright]

Here is the services panel where you set and un-set services.


You right click on the service, click properties, and then select Automatic, Manual, or Disabled.

NOTE.
Almost never do you want to disable a service. You just want to change it from Automatic to Manual




The services you see are pretty much the barebone minimums that are actually needed to run the computer. If you have it this low, you will see a big difference in performance, but you want to be careful with what you change.
You might want to take a screen shot of the services. Click Status to sort status and then click Startup Type to make the sorting easier.

[Cenright]

Well I have to start a session of homework, so I wont be able to keep this up. It is due by midnight and I haven't even started. I hope I helped some.

[makaveli121212]

xp has nothing to do with it...basically your computer isnt that good at 750 mhz and the gforce 2 is subpar ram isnt good, you should have at least 256...you need to upgrade all 3

[tnyhwk900]

750 MHZ? 128 MEGS?

ROFFLE.

[d0ot]

Concerning the EM_EXEC.exe process -

Reach, do you have a Logitech mouse? I remember seeing that process before in my task manager, disabled it a while ago and didn't seem to have any problems, but it turns out its a mouse driver (oh noes) program (see first attachment)

I found the name of the process by going into Start Menu -> Run -> type in "msconfig", then going to the "Startup" tab, you should see a screen like this (see second attachment).

The checked items are the ones that startup normally with windows, such as the system processes, and other things (see third attachment).

The unchecked processes are those annoying spyware shitbags (sahagent, GMT) that you can never seem to uninstall, and ICQ because I hate it :P
If you figure out for sure the processes that you don't want to load on startup, you can uncheck the box.
As for stepmania, as said before, get your monitor refresh rate as high as possible (usually 75 Hz) and run stepmania in windowed mode. You can also try installing a different version and see if that works, but it probably won't do much. An extra 256 mb stick of ram (DDR ram, it allows you to play DDR on your computer :P) wouldn't hurt either, xp is a bigger resource hog than 98.


P.S. 1st post, wee

[Reach]

i can run halo without lag....

and most games that don't require stats over my limits.

and i can't run sm? -__-

how come it worked before without lag then? lol

thats what i don't get...meh.

edit: yea logitec mouse...

don't see anything wrong with my vid card. most new games only require a 32 meg card, maybe 64...but they'll still run fine without having like omg 256 meg card.


ill try getting more ram...i know it isn't that expensive. processor will have to wait :S

[Synthlight]

Reach.. spend the $25 and buy yourself another 128mb of ram. Your life will be so much easier. I would recommend a new computer but some people don't have that kind of budget to work with.

Cheers,

Synthlight

[Reach]

no...no i dont lol.

k ill get some more ram :S

my parents are just cheap...and i don't have enough money for this shit.

i got 25 bucks easy though XD

<-- still doesn't understand why it would run fine on 98 and not now :S o well

[Privateer]

Eh, I IM'd you with ideas.

[makaveli121212]

best buys got some nice deals on ram...actually when i went the other day they had some 512 ram on sale for less then the 256ram...weird, but i dont recommend having any less then 512 mb of ram now-a-days...if you can keep most of the songs in memory they wont lag...and thats a guarantee...shop around though, some places have it cheap...like i said best buy is just crazy by my house

[Brainmaster07]

Yeah, 512 is the minimum you should have now a days. But it really shouldn't matter. SM worked for me on a 128mb, windows 95, not all that laggy, little bit maybe though.

[makaveli121212]

well i know it still works and it should...but reach i know someone with a computer with simlar specs as yours, and he couldnt run sm...i only have 256mb but im upgrading on sunday to 768

[Ridge]

i have xp and like 64mb video card and like 512hz proc and 128 ram.. and it works alright

[zildjian133]

hey reach have you ever thought of reinstalling SM(different version)? windows 98 was in a lot of ways the best windows program made.. it had the less flaws and unlike XP theres tons of glitches and virus holes i think in total 8 Major glitches that require patches but it could simply be you have a messed up driver problem with the graphics card messing up the sequence. oh well good luck.

[Feuergeist]

I cannot believe a damn person said this yet. TRY TO UPDATE YOUR VIDEO CARD DRIVERS.



If that doesn't work, you might want to back stuff up and consider a reformat. That is a garunteed fix.

[Snapps]

Ok, did you try changing some of your options in sm? Like make it 18 bit or windowed.

[Anuj]

k, i have 768 megs of ram, 1.7 ghz hd, and my sm is running pretty shitty too...
however, what i did, is I changed the screen to full screen instead of windowed (it helps :S), and then I changed the display res to 800 instead of 1024, and i changed texture resolution and shit to 512 or something like that... i changed color resolution and all that too, but now my SM program looks like shit... I guess the reason my comp lags so much is cuz of that piece of shit video card I have which i got for free with my comp.. i dont even think its 32 megs.. you think that might be my problem?

*edit* 1.7 ghz cpu, not hd :P

[Moogy]

THIS TOPIC IS A MONTH OLD

REACH'S PROBLEM IS FIXED

[Anuj]

yeah, but mine isnt :S

[Nima]

I use xp and it runs better than anyone else I know.