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JcFerggy:
Ok, as most people know, I have a crap computer, and I don't have the money to buy a new one at the moment. My solution to this was to partition my hard-drive, and have a clean install of XP just for my games. I've done that and I have noticed that I get more FPS, but it is still slower than I would have wanted it.

I have removed all the bloatware from here, and I only have Steam and my Nvidia drivers installed. No anti-virus, no other browser, no chat client. I even turned off Steam Friends so that won't slow me down any.

-MY QUESTION- is should I let windows do Windows Update? I'm still running Service Pack 2, but I want to know if updating to SP3 will help or hinder my performance.

I'd also like to know some console codes to improve my speed.

VC:
You need a firewall. I don't think you need any updates; I use Windows 2000 SP4, so you shouldn't need anything more than that.

For Source, your best bet is overclocking your CPU.  However, you need to find out what your bottleneck is.  With cheats enabled, because Valve sucks, use +showbudget and learn where your processing time is going so you know what to fix.

PPK:
What are your computer specs, by the way? Since you say it's crappy, I'd like to compare it to the shit pile I have near my desk, if you don't mind.

JcFerggy:
Intel Celeron
2.66GHz
1GB of RAM
Win XP Home SP2
Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS (Its AGP)
100GB Partition

PPK:
Not much better than mine's:

P4 3.2 GHz
2048 MB RAM DDR400
80 GB HD
Sapphire Radeon X1600 Pro AGP

BTW, how the hell does your avatar keep changing?

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