Anyway to make FM09 run faster?

I find the game a little slow sometimes, I have a quad core amd phenom x4 940 3ghz processor and 3gb ram.

It's frustrating, It's also a shame that the game doesn't take advantage of the 4 processors.

If i add anymore ram would that make it a little faster?

I am running Windows 7 64 Bit.

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Have you tried ticking 'threading' in preferences? This ensures the game makes use of all your computer's cores.

delete all of your graphics inc.. facepacks,skins,logos if you have put any that worked for me

delete all of your graphics inc.. facepacks,skins,logos if you have put any that worked for me

Graphics have no affect on game speed, they only slow the game down on startup. But if you have skin cache selected in preferences then there will be no slowdown caused by custom graphics.

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Seconded, with a link: http://www.iobit.com/gamebooster.html

stop crying like a baby !

http://www.footballmanagerwiki.co.uk/index.php?title=Tips_on_making_your_game_run_faster_%28PC_Edition%29

You should give this a read. They've got a few good suggestions on here.

Seconded, with a link: http://www.iobit.com/gamebooster.html

Does this actually work?

Does this actually work?

Yes it does, hence why I seconded dannys suggestion to use it to add a bit more weight to it. Try it out for yourself and see

I tryed the game booster and it works

This game booster is great! Usually i would do about a month in an hour and a half but now with the booster one hour maybe even less for one month. Great work for the producers of game booster!!!

I find the game a little slow sometimes, I have a quad core amd phenom x4 940 3ghz processor and 3gb ram.

It's frustrating, It's also a shame that the game doesn't take advantage of the 4 processors.

If i add anymore ram would that make it a little faster?

I am running Windows 7 64 Bit.

I wouldn't have thought more RAM would be neeed - best way to find out is go to Task Manager, click on the Performance tab and see what (if anything) is maxed out when playing FM. If nothing is maxed out, nothing needs upgrading, and you should consider playing with fewer leagues are shutting off background processes.

Could someone tell me how this game booster works? I would feel more comfortable using it if i new exactly what it does to speed up the game.

According to the website:

It works by temporarily shutting down background processes, cleaning RAM, and intensifying processor performance. That means you can keep all the features of Microsoft® Windows® Vista™ and XP® ready for when you need them, but turn them off when you are ready to get down to serious business – gaming. Game Booster makes it simpler to enjoy the latest games and take your experience to a new level. All systems go!

Could someone tell me how this game booster works? I would feel more comfortable using it if i new exactly what it does to speed up the game.

I've tried it just as I was curious.

Visibly, all you see it do is close down some nonessential services (a few network ones, Windows Aero effect and a few others). It's nice to have as a toggle I guess.

I've tried it just as I was curious.

It's nice to have as a toggle I guess.

sure is

Hmmmmm, i'll give this a try tomorrow as atm I have to restart my computer before each matchday or it'll just close down after halftime.

Have you tried ticking 'threading' in preferences? This ensures the game makes use of all your computer's cores.

wheres threading? cant seem to find it.........

Should find it somewhere in preferences, not certain where exactly. If you don't have a multi-core processor it's greyed-out.

I would just say to the OP. Welcome to the club

I, amongst others, have been posting quite a bit about this, to find out why it is this way on quad-cores. You can check out my posts and you will find more threads about the "quad-issue".

The game takes advantage of your quad core. Unfortunately even quad cores are not fast enough for the game. You can try overclocking your processor. That's pretty much the only way to improve the performance, while other "solutions" like defragging, disabling background processes etc. are mostly pointless since you wont get any perceivable improvement.

You could try playing with less leagues, smaller db, disabling full detail in competitions you dont care about.

Graphics have no affect on game speed, they only slow the game down on startup. But if you have skin cache selected in preferences then there will be no slowdown caused by custom graphics.

Sorry to be thick but just to clarify - you should have skin cache selected?

Sorry to be thick but just to clarify - you should have skin cache selected?

Yes, go to the Preferences in FM and tick the Skin Cache option. This basically speeds up the loading of the game every time you start it (but it won't load any new graphics you include with this option selected).

stop crying like a baby !

thats really helpful ain't it.

Never heard of this game booster, but it sounds like it's pretty useful, will give that bad boy a go later!

GameBooster seems to have worked quite well for me too. Scouring around the Net it seems as though its quite legitimate, rather than some shonky increase-your-pc-speed-through-voodoo-magic style spyware effort.

Gamebooster basically just disables a bunch of services. It doesnt help much unless you already have an obsolete pc with little ram. I dont think you will notice any difference on a quad core with enough ram. Just a warning..most of those services are useful and thats why they are running.

Since you have an AMD computer you could perhaps try their own utility for game boosting. It does pretty much the same thing plus a few hardware tricks.

http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_fusion.aspx?p=1

Well, my computer is already going quicker

Just wondering as I'm getting a new laptop what I would need to run FM2009 smoothly & also be good enough to run FM2010 when it comes out

The best possible cpu you can afford. There are quad core notebooks available but they arent cheap. Also stay away from integrated gfx cards. If you cant afford one with a dedicated gfx card at least get one with an ati or nvidia integrated gfx. 3 or 4 gb of ram should be more than enough. Dont expect too much since notebooks are much slower than comparatively priced desktops.

with 64 bit vista you should really have 4GB RAM minimum really. Especially for games.

Thanks to this thread I've downloaded gamebooster but haven't had time fo ran FM session since. Can I just ask, presumably it's better that you're not online, but will it interfere with firing up WMP to play background music?

Thanks to this thread I've downloaded gamebooster but haven't had time fo ran FM session since. Can I just ask, presumably it's better that you're not online, but will it interfere with firing up WMP to play background music?

Could be. Its disabling a lot of services and some of them might be needed for online connection and media playing. You can select which ones you wish to disable.

with 64 bit vista you should really have 4GB RAM minimum really. Especially for games.

Nah..I have a 64bit vista with 4gb of ram and i dont think i ever needed that much ram running any of the games. Hell i even leave FM running while playing some other game and it still works just fine.

Amen to those suggesting Game Booster, it is a great utility to use when playing games. Running less leagues definately helps, but that is already widely known. This link http://www.footballmanagerwiki.co.uk/index.php?title=Tips_on_making_your_game_run_faster_%28PC_Edition%29 from the Wiki has a few suggestions on how to make your game run faster.

Hope that helps.