<P><H1>Hamachi - Steps to better gaming...</H1>
<P>Follow the following to hopefully speed games up in Hamachi.
<P>The basics:
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<LI>Ensure no program, or anyone else, is using your Internet connection<BR><FONT size="-1">(IM clients can be excluded from this rule)</FONT>
<LI>Actually, close all your unneeedd programs; they will be wasting precious CPU cycles
<LI>Disable your AV software; if no other programs are running on your PC, AV software's real-time protection can be deemed temporarily not required, and can free up the CPU for other things, such as gaming!
<LI>Close your web browser/s; Firefox, Opera and possibly even IE have the ability to chew a lot of CPU and RAM, even while idling!
<LI>Actually, close everything on your taskbar; it's apparent, for example, explorer.exe (i.e. Windows Explorer, My Computer related windows) can randomly use a lot of CPU
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<P>Give the Hamachi virtual network adapter highest priority:
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<LI>Open up <B>Network Connections</B>
<LI>Click onto the <B>Advanced</B> menu, and select <B>Advanced Settings...</B>
<LI>In the <B>Adapters and Bindings</B> tab, under <B>Connections</B>, move the Hamachi adapter to the very top of the list by using the up/down errors on the right side
<LI>OK out of Advanced Settings section and close off Network Connections
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<P>Give higher priority to the Hamachi application:
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<LI>Go to <B>Start</B>, then <B>Run</B>, and run <B>taskmgr.exe</B>
<LI>Click onto the <B>Processes</B> tab, and click <B>Image Name</B> to sort the application names alphabetically
<LI>Locate <B>hamachi.exe</B>, right-click it, and <B>Set Priority</B> to <B>High</B> (or set it to <B>Realtime</B>, if you've got the balls!)
<LI>While still in Task Manager, sort the list by <B>CPU</B> and look at closing programs that are taking a constant portion of the CPU (e.g. ~20%)
<LI>Close Task Manager once done
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