XXHighEnd - The Ultra HighEnd Audio Player
March 29, 2024, 06:59:45 am *
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?

Login with username, password and session length
News: August 6, 2017 : Phasure Webshop open ! Go to the Shop
Search current board structure only !!  
   Home   Help Search Login Register  
Pages: [1]
  Print  
Author Topic: Apply MinimizeOS  (Read 6191 times)
0 Members and 0 Guests are viewing this topic.
PeterSt
Administrator
High Grade Audiophile
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 16827



View Profile Email
« on: May 23, 2012, 12:54:01 pm »

Might you be confident in making a backup from the Registry easily and/or fast, maybe do so (a Restore Point which you will be able to really use when necessary). If all is right this is not necessary, but better be safe than sorry.

0.9z-6 and up will automatically degrade your OS to near to numb, while you will still be able to fairly normally use it (even during playback). The  "tweaking" has been setup so, that whatever you tweaked yourself in advance of XXHighEnd will be utilized and consistently be restored to your likings and when you want.

Have that backup ready ! ... and ...
Use at your own risk !

As we know the best sonic qualities are achieved by means of the so called Unattended Playback, that meaning that there will be no GUI left to interfere. In the mean time all what is not necessary is shutdown from the Operating System, and playback is on its own. Still, all control is there by means of keyboard shortcuts (like Next Track, Change Volume), and while some "stealth" players intend to start off like this to your not-so-inconveniency, XXHighEnd allows you to bring up the GUI whenever you want for even more control (like selecting new albums etc.), that by itself only temporarily interfering the sonic performance.

In addition to this, with Minimize OS the OS is dynamically tweaked to-completely-death, referring to the ever back topic where all may have started. To some small extend that was. However, the "dynamically" in this case means that the OS is reconfigured on the spot, and that now a reboot will cause this reconfiguration to be permanent.

Let the difference be clear : What happened before (and what other so called stealth players do with cMP as the exception), is nothing much different from what XXHighEnd always did; kill all what can be killed and next commence playback ("Waiting for Services to stop"). This is nice, but far from optimal. "Nice" for it really helping, but without a clue of all what was running and keeps on running. This is actually so bad that now even a totally incapable laptop will become a "real machine".

As told, you can just keep on using the PC during playback, and although maybe not optimal for SQ, you will see the gain in overall speed of everything once the OS has been set to be quite dead. You'll love already that part.

Might you become fedup with the speed, there's a single button in XXHighEnd which will revert all to normal, and which only takes that reboot (automatically performed). In the next 30 seconds you will be back to what Gates aver imagined.
And oh, when you like that better anyway, don't use this button, and all will be as usual and known from XXHighEnd. But remember, far from optimal.
This button is under the right pane and is called "Minimize OS" (shown in the active state below).



Let it also be known that all kind of mixed modes are possible, like using XXHighEnd in normal Attended Fashion (which really shouldn't be called "normal" as such), while in the mean time the OS is still that dead body.

This is not for XP, and most probably this can not be checked for properly !  (hence prevent you from attempting it)

« Last Edit: July 27, 2012, 10:56:43 am by PeterSt » Logged

For the Stealth III LPS PC :
W10-14393.0 - July 17, 2021 (2.11)
XXHighEnd Mach III Stealth LPS PC -> Xeon Scalable 14/28 core with Hyperthreading On (set to 14/28 cores in BIOS and set to 10/20 cores via Boot Menu) @~660MHz, 48GB, Windows 10 Pro 64 bit build 14393.0 from RAM, music on LAN / Engine#4 Adaptive Mode / Q1/-/3/4/5 = 14/-/0/0/*1*/ Q1Factor = *4* / Dev.Buffer = 4096 / ClockRes = *10ms* / Memory = Straight Contiguous / Include Garbage Collect / SFS = *10.13*  (max 10.13) / not Invert / Phase Alignment Off / Playerprio = Low / ThreadPrio = Realtime / Scheme = Core 3-5 / Not Switch Processors during Playback = Off/ Playback Drive none (see OS from RAM) / UnAttended (Just Start) / Always Copy to XX Drive (see OS from RAM) / Stop Desktop, Remaining, WASAPI and W10 services / Use Remote Desktop / Keep LAN - Not Persist / WallPaper On / OSD Off (!) / Running Time Off / Minimize OS / XTweaks : Balanced Load = *62* / Nervous Rate = *1* / Cool when Idle = n.a / Provide Stable Power = 1 / Utilize Cores always = 1 / Time Performance Index = Optimal / Time Stability = Stable / Custom Filtering *Low* (16x) / Always Clear Proxy before Playback = On -> USB3 from MoBo -> Lush^3
A: W-Y-R-G, B: *W-G* USB 1m00 -> Phisolator 24/768 Phasure NOS1a/G3 75B (BNC Out) async USB DAC, Driver v1.0.4b (16ms) -> B'ASS Current Amplifier -> Blaxius*^2.5* A:B-G, B:B-G Interlink -> Orelo MKII Active Open Baffle Horn Speakers. ET^2 Ethernet from Mach III to Music Server PC (RDC Control).
Removed Switching Supplies from everywhere (also from the PC).

For a general PC :
W10-10586.0 - May 2016 (2.05+)
*XXHighEnd PC -> I7 3930k with Hyperthreading On (12 cores)* @~500MHz, 16GB, Windows 10 Pro 64 bit build 10586.0 from RAM, music on LAN / Engine#4 Adaptive Mode / Q1/-/3/4/5 = 14/-/1/1/1 / Q1Factor = 1 / Dev.Buffer = 4096 / ClockRes = 1ms / Memory = Straight Contiguous / Include Garbage Collect / SFS = 0.10  (max 60) / not Invert / Phase Alignment Off / Playerprio = Low / ThreadPrio = Realtime / Scheme = Core 3-5 / Not Switch Processors during Playback = Off/ Playback Drive none (see OS from RAM) / UnAttended (Just Start) / Always Copy to XX Drive (see OS from RAM) / All Services Off / Keep LAN - Not Persist / WallPaper On / OSD On / Running Time Off / Minimize OS / XTweaks : Balanced Load = *43* / Nervous Rate = 1 / Cool when Idle = 1 / Provide Stable Power = 1 / Utilize Cores always = 1 / Time Performance Index = *Optimal* / Time Stability = *Stable* / Custom Filter *Low* 705600 / -> USB3 *from MoBo* -> Clairixa USB 15cm -> Intona Isolator -> Clairixa USB 1m80 -> 24/768 Phasure NOS1a 75B (BNC Out) async USB DAC, Driver v1.0.4b (4ms) -> Blaxius BNC interlink *-> B'ASS Current Amplifier /w Level4 -> Blaxius Interlink* -> Orelo MKII Active Open Baffle Horn Speakers.
Removed Switching Supplies from everywhere.

Global Moderator
Pages: [1]
  Print  
 
Jump to:  

Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1 RC2 | SMF © 2001-2005, Lewis Media Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!
Page created in 0.044 seconds with 21 queries.