Waht do you think?? too many games affect the pc?

It may be a stupid question.

Does if affect performance of your PC to have too many games installed on your hard drive??

I have Windows XP and a hard drive of around 150G (72 of them arre not used right now), I have right now installed the following games: Oblivion (with expansion), Starcraft, Crysis, Titan Quest (I love this game), CNC3, Bioshock and Steam with the HL2 and Orange box installed.

I want to get Stalker, Company of Heroes and COD4 , but a friend of mine told that that to have to many games installed will slow the performance of my computer. Is it true? I have a P4 3.4G with 2 SDR2 and a 8800 GT.

Thanks for your opinion

well, the more you have on your HDD in general is going to affect performance, since it will have more information to sort through. it prolly won't be a drastic performance hit, but the more thats on there, the longer it will take for larger files to load. Defrag your drive regularly and anything that you don't need on there you should take it off. Bw0mp

ok, so it does affect the performance....uhhh.... I still play all those games, so it is hard for me to delete one of them. I will probably delete some of the steam games that I don't use know (HL2 cs:S...)

[QUOTE="Bw0mp"]well, the more you have on your HDD in general is going to affect performance, since it will have more information to sort through. it prolly won't be a drastic performance hit, but the more thats on there, the longer it will take for larger files to load. Defrag your drive regularly and anything that you don't need on there you should take it off. MotherRussia

ok, so it does affect the performance....uhhh.... I still play all those games, so it is hard for me to delete one of them. I will probably delete some of the steam games that I don't use know (HL2 cs:S...)

it affects load times more than fps, and since you play all of them still you shouldn't worry about itBw0mp

Thanks, also I use as antivirus Symatec Antivirus corporate edition....I think it uses too much memory but I am not sure, should I remove it and install AVG?

Computer performance will be affected if you do not have about 25% free space. Personally I have a separate drive for all my games, music, and documents. I only have the OS and any required software on my "C" drive.Some required software includes drivers, AV program, anti-spyware programs, CrapCleaner, Open Office, burner programs, ZIp/RAR programsetc. Makes it easier to keep clean and defrag works wonders. With the low cost of HDD's it is an easy solution.

Thanks, also I use as antivirus Symatec Antivirus corporate edition....I think it uses too much memory but I am not sure, should I remove it and install AVG?

MotherRussia

I certainly would.

[QUOTE="Bw0mp"]it affects load times more than fps, and since you play all of them still you shouldn't worry about itMotherRussia

Thanks, also I use as antivirus Symatec Antivirus corporate edition....I think it uses too much memory but I am not sure, should I remove it and install AVG?

I use AVG free myself, but I never have it running unless I'm doing a scan and I'm not familiar with Symatec so I can't really comment on it.

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Thanks, also I use as antivirus Symatec Antivirus corporate edition....I think it uses too much memory but I am not sure, should I remove it and install AVG?

RayvinAzn

I certainly would.

Is AVG still free? Or you have to pay something for it?

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Thanks, also I use as antivirus Symatec Antivirus corporate edition....I think it uses too much memory but I am not sure, should I remove it and install AVG?

MotherRussia

I certainly would.

Is AVG still free? Or you have to pay something for it?

There is still a free version.

And this is it.

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Thanks, also I use as antivirus Symatec Antivirus corporate edition....I think it uses too much memory but I am not sure, should I remove it and install AVG?

RayvinAzn

I certainly would.

they use about the same amount of memory

ihave only one HDDbut if install all my games on it and i also have all my music, files and stuff will i affect performance,

should i split it into 2? but is i do that will it still affect performance, also is it hard to install a HDD, you just need to connect to the first HDD and motherboard??