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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rodrigo Istalindir" data-source="post: 2259766" data-attributes="member: 2810">It would help to know the hardware specifics of your machine.  1a.  This is probably related to power management and the ability to have the computer wake up or power on based on mouse events.  You can probably turn this off in the BIOS.  Also, make sure the computer is really powering down, not just going into standby or whatever your PC calls its 'Suspend to RAM' feature.  OTOH, I really like the Suspend to RAM -- I go weeks without rebooting, and I can go from essentially off to working in 10 seconds.1b.  Not that I'm aware of, at least with stock keyboards.  You can set the repeat rate, but that is different.  However, on a reasonably capable PC, there is no way you should be able to type faster than the computer can keep up unless there is something running in the background sucking up lots of CPU power.  I can type around 100 words a minute at peak, and I can't outrace any computer (aside from the occasional hiccup when auto-save kicks in or something).  Run the task manager and look at the processes and see if something is sucking up clock cycles.2. Again, use the Task Manager and see how much physical memory you have, how big the page file is getting, and how much memory individual processes are taking up.  I personally wouldn't run XP in less than 256MB and expect to get decent game performance, and really 512 is the minimum I recommend for anyone buying a new PC.  If the PC is having to constantly swap out to virtual memory, it will absolutely kill performance (and could be related to 1b)3.  You could change the BIOS a thousand times a day and the computer wouldn't care.  Well, actually not true --eventually you'd hit the write-limit on the flash ram, but that's usually in the 10s or 100s of thousands.  If you are having to twitch with drive settings, I'd be more concerned with potential file corruption.4.  From the java control panel applet, you should be able to turn on logging and the console.  Also, try running from the command line "java -jar pcgen.jar" from your PCGen directory and see if it returns any errors.Honestly, unless you really know what you are doing, running XP64 on a PC not expressly designed for it can bite you in the ass.  Because of the driver issues (which you are seeing with the modem), it is entirely possible that a misbehaving driver is causing system problems that are manifesting in slow-downs and other odd behavior.</blockquote>

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