Do Installing games slow down computer preformance?

cabernet

cabernet

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I'm Using windows vista and I've installed... 3 games on it all of which pretty high end, I noticed this little gadget showing how much or % of the RAM and CPU is being used, the % of RAM went up every time I installed a game. When you install a game to your computer (not exactly playing it or having the game in disc drive) does it take up more than just hard drive space?
 
Installed games shouldn't take up system resources without you executing them, maybe its something else, its definitely not your installed games.
 
Installing games and apps doesnt use more RAM or processing power, but if you are running low on disk space then it may restrict the size of the page (swap) file, or it could be causing you hard drive to become more fragmented.
 
installing the game will not slow your computer but if that game has other applications that install and start on booting your system such as steam or other online gaming applications could cause a small drop in speed
 
Steam will not slow down your computer, not by a noticeable amount anyway, if steam slows down your computer by a noticeable amount then its not going to be a very good gaming computer anyway.
 
elitehacker said:
Steam will not slow down your computer, not by a noticeable amount anyway, if steam slows down your computer by a noticeable amount then its not going to be a very good gaming computer anyway.
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Yea im not sure if steam will I was just useing it as an example, I have no games installed ATM that use such programs.
 
q: did you install the games one after another without re-starting windows?

If so, then this is what may have happened...

1. startup, look at ram usage

2. install game, look at ram usage,
3. install game, look at ram usage, (and so on)

The point to make here is that when you run programs, (i believe) there is some "junk" data left on the RAM, thereby showing that your ram usage is increasing when infact it's just a bunch of old stuff from previously run programs. Im not completely sure on this issue though.

I wonder what the result would have been if you either restarted between installations OR used some form of ram optimising/freeing program.

Installing more games (programs, files etc for that matter) will have the efect that omega was talking about though
 
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