Priming your computer for gaming

So you want the most juice out of your system!? Well I know some tricks up my sleeve that I believe will help you out. I play UT2004, and to get the best frames per second I needed to make sure nothing else was hogging my system resources. It goes like this:


 * Download overclocking software for your graphics card.
 * Kill all running services (/etc/init.d/servicename stop)
 * Kill all running apps (su && killall whatever)
 * Get a low level GUI (aewm; apt-get install aewm)

So right now you would do something like this:
 * 1) CTRL+ALT+Backspace to get out of your current GUI.
 * 2) cd ~
 * 3) vi .xinitrc  then type in something like: exec aewm
 * 4) startx
 * 5) Right-click the desktop to open xterm
 * 6) ps aux to see all running apps, su to root, and kill as many as you can. Kill the services before individual programs.
 * 7) Start overclocking software for your graphics card.
 * 8) Start the game! Make sure the game is at the lowest settings and lowest resolution (640x480).