- May 15, 2019
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Just spreading the word to other guys running older windows gaming systems. This Spectre fix can slow down older systems 10% or so while it doesn't seem to effect newer systems nearly as badly.
If you have an older windows gaming machine, and if you are not worried about Spectre Meltdown vulnerabilities, you can disable the fixes. A little video clip below explains better than I can. You may not want to get into this if your machine does work related things or financial related things or web hosting things. For gaming machines different story. I think reported incidents from Spectre Meltdown infiltration is ZERO. So take that for what its worth. IMO this is like the pentium math error bug from 1993. Real world effect on gaming rigs nets out to a big fat nothing burger.
Please read up before you do anything and then figure out how you wish to proceed.
App here:
Reg keys here:
reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management" /v FeatureSettingsOverride /t REG_DWORD /d 3 /f
reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management" /v FeatureSettingsOverrideMask /t REG_DWORD /d 3 /f
This is the little bit I have seen on it, I have not really dug into this very deeply, if you do so please post.
If you have an older windows gaming machine, and if you are not worried about Spectre Meltdown vulnerabilities, you can disable the fixes. A little video clip below explains better than I can. You may not want to get into this if your machine does work related things or financial related things or web hosting things. For gaming machines different story. I think reported incidents from Spectre Meltdown infiltration is ZERO. So take that for what its worth. IMO this is like the pentium math error bug from 1993. Real world effect on gaming rigs nets out to a big fat nothing burger.
Please read up before you do anything and then figure out how you wish to proceed.
App here:
Reg keys here:
reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management" /v FeatureSettingsOverride /t REG_DWORD /d 3 /f
reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management" /v FeatureSettingsOverrideMask /t REG_DWORD /d 3 /f
This is the little bit I have seen on it, I have not really dug into this very deeply, if you do so please post.