How can I get more power for playing PC games at higher resolutions?
More specifically, is there a program that, when activated an the fly, could close all unnecessary running programs in order to get maximum memory and power allocated to the game that I would like to play? I have been searching for something like this because it would make playing games on the pc a lot better. Thanks
Thing is, "unnecessary programs" is quite arbitrary. What you deem to be un-necessary may not be so. Or may be different for others.
Ram is dirt cheap, so getting an extra gig is like 50$.
Furthermore cpu versus gpu power differs a lot from game to game.
What I mean is, you could be playing a game that is very GPU intensive (Graphics processing unit/video card) and closing all programs would make very little difference in this case.
Most background tasks are just that: background tasks, they utilise very little if any cpu time unless absolutely needed. If some programs are still in memory that are really useless, it is better to prevent them from running to begin with or close them when done.
HTH
