Can any one tell me if it will adverse affect on my computer if I compress my hard drive inder Win XP. Will this slow down the game? I just want to save some space. I have a 24 gig drive and I nearing the end of it. Dell inspiron I5150 3.06ghz Win XPsp2512 mb ramNIVIDIA GEFORCE FX Go5200Thank you

I did compress my FS9 folder because some folks were making wide claims here that it would greatly speed up (or smooth out) the FS. I did not see any such performance benefit (nor performance penalty) but since I saved some space - I left it this way. Michael J.WinXP-Home SP2,AMD64 3500+,Abit AV8,Radeon X800Pro,36GB Raptor,1GB PC3200,Audigy 2

Thanks Michael I will give it a try.

Hi Andrew, your CPU is definitely good enough. AFAIK, it's not recommended for CPUs < ca. 2000MHz. Furthermore, you'll need 15% free drive space to defrag. Compressing delivers approximately the same ratio. Thus if your HD is full and you compress it, at least you should be able to defrag again... Have you decreased the temp folders and garbage bin? You can also gain drive space by not having an imongous pagefile. Good luck and kind regards Jaap

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