   Tweaking a Dino (PIII 500 no Graphics card, 128mbram)
  My little bro got a System from a pal!Had Win95 on it so Installed Win2k and Half-Life.(for a LITTLE brotherly war)I want to try and help him get every last little bit of juice out of the old beast so half life will run half descent.Installed DirectX 9.Got latest Drivers for his graphics chip (matrox MGA-G200 AGP).Also half life running at screen resolution 800-600 and Direct3D gives clearest picture but a little jumpy!Is there any way to tweak up this bad boy to make it go faster?? 
  Killing background processes;  Kill explorer.exe too, it doesn''t need to be running while you''re playing. Try to make sure that Half-Life.exe and only the *needed* processes are running.   James SimmonsMindEngine Developmenthttp://medev.sourceforge.net;  Should be a piece of cake to get it running on that machine. I played it for a long time on a 166 with no acceleration. 640x480, pretty smooth too. ;  Yeah nice idea... also if i remove the keyboard and mouse from the equation that would speed things up! ;  Fill the case with live gerbils ;  Blow the system speaker, pull out the LEDs on the case and remove any hardware that''s not useful.You could redirect the game output to a printer too. ;  - defragment the hard disk(s)- kill things like the MS Word indexer thing from startup- reduce the resolution and bit depth of the desktop- if at all possible (probably not an option), get some more RAM and a cheap gfx card - you should be able to get both REALLY cheap these days.- if the mouse/keyboard are connected via USB, try connecting them using any PS/2 sockets.- Run AdAware to remove any leeches that might be attached to Shell/Explorer - some run code...- Get the latest Windows service packs - helps clear up a few things that could negatively affect perf. on the original 2K release.- Likewise, get the latest motherboard service packs (some hideous things are fixed by those).- Have a check that there are no "safe/stable but slow" settings enabled in the BIOS ;  Wouldn''t he be a lot better off with 98? ;  If you want maximum performance I''d recommend going with 98.  2000 eats up a large part of your memory there, which leaves Half-Life with nothing but swap space.  If you want to keep win2K, 1) cut out ALL services you can do without and kill just about all of the processes and 2) maybe invest in 64MB ram for like 20 or 30 bucks (maybe cheaper). 