Interesting findings BF2 and Creative Performance Iss

Now... dont get your hopes up but I was browsing on one of the BF2 forums.. not really looking for creative fix but saw a link to "Fix all your performance problems in BF2" So I figured what the heck..
Found the URL here: http://www.forumplanet.com/planetbat...689&tid=704503
Which points you to the details here:
http://forum.eagames.co.uk/viewtopic...&postorder=asc
To make it short...
These articles talk about the Audigy 2 stuttering, popping, etc. I have had this issue myself with the audigy two...
Anyway... they specifically talk about the EAX settings being an issue..specifically due to the use of generic OpenAL libraries.... What they found was that the version in the battlefield 2 directory BF2OpenAL.dll was a much older version then was is provided by Creative directly in the driver package. So I decided to do some research and see what was installed by the creative drivers and what was loading during run time of the game... What I found when the game is started is the BF2OpenAL.dll is loaded not what is in my system32 directory which are provided directly by Creative through the driver pack. You can use System Information / Loaded Modules to see this. The Version on BF2OpenAL.dll is version . the version in my Windows/System directory which the creative drivers installed is version 5.2.
This is what I found while BF2 is running in System Information:
BF2OpenAL Version . 228.00 KB (233,472 bytes) //2005 8:38 PM <EM>(Ignore date as the time stamp would have been updated when they rebuilt BF2 for SF which I just installed tonight)</EM> Creative Labs c:\program files\ea games\battlefield 2\bf2openal.dll
This is what I found in my WIn/Sys32 directory (Not being used when BF2 is running)
Company: Creative Technology Ltd
Version: 5.2.0.0442-.84.0020
52 KB (55,648 bytes)
Now... the big question.. are these two drivers the same? And if not... why is BF2 using an older one? Is this an older one? Shouldn't Windows load what is in the system 32 directory over what is in a local directory of aprogram.
BIG Question... Does this fix your problem? How do you try? See second URL for details... It explains to backup the BF2OpenAL.dll copy the one from your Windows/System32 directory into your BF2 directory and name it to BF2OpenAl.dll.
This will force BF2 to use the version that creative provided in your drivers..
Since I am not havng anymore issues with my card... i figured would not mess with it..
But those of you that have issues... It wont hurt to try
Please post results...

mike,
your findings are not new. Browse this forum and you will see there has already been discussed on this one.

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MSI GS60 Ghost Pro Golden Edition - A Combination of Stylish and High Performance.

I have no idea who can say no to this shining and charming beauty....
The BackStory
When I studied at graduate school, I bought my first laptop, Asus F3J, of my life and brought it to school everyday. Actually it was a 2.9kg around laptop for gaming and I felt like carry a heavy brick. It was quite inconvient and kind of suffer for a person like me who was not doing fitness. After I graduated from school and was being a member of society, I decided to find a laptop that was much lighter and easier to bright to work. Toshiba R830 was what I chose, but this time, the performance of playing some hardcore game wasn’t good enough since it doesn’t have a discrete graphics card.
I started to believe there is a trade off between perforamnce and weight of laptop with these two experience. Until one day, I came across with MSI GS60 Ghost Pro at Computex 2014, it was a notebook weigh just around 2kg and uncompromising with high performance. In more detail, It had core I7 CPU、High-end GTX graphics card and two 256MB SSD within it. From that day, I know it is the notebook am looking for, it is a note book I can bring to work and also play game at home. Furthermore, MSI is going to issue the limited Golden edition of it around the end of year, it gave me one more reason to buy this “good stuff”, because both me and my girl think gold is the most fashion color in recent year, just like iphone. So that is the backstory, now i just have the golden one and is going to unbox it for you.
The Main Specification
MSI GS60 Ghost Pro 2QE Golden Edition:
•   CPU: Core i7-4710HQ (2.5GHz – 3.5GHz)
•   OS: Windows 8.1
•   Display: 15.6″ WQHD+, IPS (2880*1620)
•   Memory Supplied: 16G 2*8GB DDR3L 1600
•   Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX970M GDDR5 3GB
•   Storage: 2 x 256GB M.2 SSD + 1TB 7200RPM HDD
•   Wireless Lan: Killer 802.11 a/c
The Unboxing
It is a really big one, please do drive your car while buying this NB from the shop.
Inside the main brown shipping box, there are MSI stylish back bag and the a black branded carry case.
The back back is grey color with good material quality, it also a simple and fashion design which is suitable for young or stylish worker. The sense of touch is also good.
There are several layers inside the bag, even more, a shock-absorbing laptop sleeve in it. What a surprise!!
In the big black branded carry case. There are two black box, one is for accessory. One is for the main role “GS60” with sponge to protect it as you can see in the photo.
Let see the accessory box first, a MSI gaming mouse、a MSI/SteelSeries Flux headset、a keyboard protector and a mouse pad.
The mouse has red light shining on both side when it connect to the laptop. It’s really a gaiming stuff! We can also see the double braided cord that improved the durability.
As “+” and “-“ these buttons in the middle of the mouse, user can adjust the sensity of the mouse instantly by these two bottons in the game. No need to waste your time finding the adjument UI within the game. It is such a good benefit for a gamer.
The Flux headset has ear cushions with mesh-cloth material it let you feel comfortable when wear it. You also can find out the color of the shell beside the headset can be changed, one pair is MSI design in red color, the other one is pure black one.
It also has a convenient design that the earmuff can be folded, in order to make the headset into a plat one and easy to put in your bag.
The performance of the headset is high-end and highs that don’t get brittle. About the deep bass, it also quite stunning. Overall, it can make the music carry listener’s heart.
It deserves you to put it on the top of your gaming headset list.
Here we open another black box, the GS60 is packaging by the non-woven cloth.
There are also the power adaptor、power cord and mini displayport to D-sub cable.
By the way, the power adapter is 25.53 mm thick and 0.52kg. weigh, 19.5V and 7.7A output.
Moreover, there are instruction manuals、several driver CDs and even two military dog tag with MSI logo, actually I am not a military lover, so I am going to use them as a key ring but not to hang on my neck.
Finally, let us see a royal-like GS60 Ghost Pro Golden…
Using Mg-Li alloy as the material, its chasis gains the advantage of both ultra-light and solid.
According to MSI official website, the idea of design comes from the stealth fighter, so it shows dynamic streamline in its design. Beside the visual effect, it makes you feel comfortable when typing due to the slimmer front edge and solid palm rest. The high gloss finish and bright gold will reflect light, so it change color slightly in different lighting condition. Overall, it delivery supreme visual treat.
To see a more apparent golden color, I put it on my sofa with yellow background.
Shinging and charming….
The fancy muscle curve and hire line surface make it elegant and gorgeous.
The shield and the MSI logo, they are delicated design without roughness.
The black color keycap contrast with the golden chasis apparently.
The touchpad looks cool as well, the material it made let the surface being anti-skidding and you wont leave your fingerprint on it.
It has Dynaudio speaker and Steelseries keyboard these two famous brand as it high-end equipment. 4 channel speakers and comfortable tactile keyboard. Moreover, the Graphics card it equiped is GTX 970M,
One of the lastest high-end Nvidia GTX graphics card. It is the first gaming notebook to equip GTX 970M .No doubt MSI regard themselves as the leader brand of gaming.
Sound Blaster Cinema 2+Dyanudio, Bravo~~
Let’s check the connectivity of this beauty.
No ports but seried of cooling vents at the rear panel,in order to let air flow and palm rest feeling.
being better.
The left side of it located the microphone (line out) and headphone (line in) jack, two USB 3.0 ports, the power connector socket and a security port. Also the vent close to the rear panel. The metal golden jack can isolate much more noice and enhance the reality of music as not being distortion.
The right side of GS60 located an USB 3.0 port, card reader, Mini DisplayPort, HDMI port, and GB LAN (RJ45). GS60 Ghost Pro can support 2 external moniotr with mini display and HDMI port. When playing PRG game, you can use the main one to play game, the other one can show a walkthrough. The last one, you can even use skype or outlook to connect others.
The front side you can see the LED to show some fuction status. Such as the battary status and bloothtooth has been turned on or not..etc.
From bottom of this notebook you can see the battery is not removable, I guess the idea probably come from iphone. In fact, I seldomly remove the battery when I using a laptop, unless it really heavy to carry. But this time, GS60 is not heavy, so it wont be a problem to me.
I used the scaler to measure the actual weight and ruler to see how thin it is, the result cames out 19.95mm thin and 2.1kg weight. Is it really a gaming machine I used to think of?! Such an ultra-book style.
As I know, all the gaming notebook used to be black and silver color, there are few gaming notebook with others color. MSI this time has find its way to make a breakthrough. Of course, the creative thinking and the adventurous action is what we need in gaming world!!
In a word, as you can see from the picture above ,the metallic feel of it is so attractive!!It is the most stylish and creative gaming notebook I have ever seen.
All of above are the unboxing of hardware part.let’ talk about some function and feature of this treasure.
Dragan Gaming Center which is preinstalled in this MSI laptop. With this application, you can monitor the status of the important elements in the system. You can also quick start a game or an utility through it.
Fn+F7="Shift", according to the official website, the key can be used to change the mode of the notebook in 3 status, the default "Sport"mode、"Comfort" mode and "Green mode", it is a adjustment function to control the CPU and GPU workload in order to balance the performance and temperature
Use "Shift" to switch the mode you prefer.
Green- System locks both GPU and CPU chip temp.
Comfort- System locks GPU chip temp and dynamic adjusts the GPU chip temp
Sport- Defaut and without any control.
I am not afraid about the high temperature and noise from fans, so I like to use the default one, Sport mode~
If you are playing a game in the library, please do choose Green mode to keep the fan from being busy.
The "Shift" is MSI exclusive function, the idea comes from the shifting gear in automobile.
Here comes another interesting feature, which is called Killer Double Shot Pro.With this function,
the GB LAN and Wireless LAN act like combined togather and user can acquire the bandwith from both.
Killer Netwok Manager UI
This network technology also offers you a smooth background when playing game, because you can set the gaming applications as higher priority to use the bandwith than others. What a bravo feature!!
The highest resolution of GS60 Ghost Pro is 2880*1620 which is also called 3K,
as you can see from the screenshot below, when playing game you gain much more visual delight.
With the HDMI and mini display output, you can enjoy a 1+2 matrix display function.
With the XSplit Gamecaster preintalled in GS60, you can share your game just in time through live streaming while playing it. however, I won't use this function because I don't wanna share my skill to the others, hahaha~~
The Steal Series Engine, it is my favorite. You can set the keypress macro、text macro or lauch application just in one key. For example, while playing Leaque of Legend, we always need to press Q、W、E、R、T
immediately, but with keypress macro function, you can trigger them just in one key. Quite convient, isn't it?
You can also choose the color you want for the keyboard backlit with Steal Series Egine. This function shows the gaming feature indeed.
That's see the multi-color backlit of it. What a show off!!!
Below is the hardware information showed by Nvidia Experience UI and GPU Z
GeForce GTX 970M with DDR5 3G and I7-4710HQ!!
I can't wait to see the 3D MARK 11 P score...
Here it got P9272 at sport mode. Outstanding!!
For 3D MARK Fire Strike, it got 6515 at sport mode. I have to say that GS60 Ghost Pro punches above its weight.
The result of Valley Benchmark 1.0 is below, score 1560 and FPS is 37.3.
Testing the Call of duty Ghost with FRAPS, while play the game, it goes smoothly and the fps showed at top-left is around 100~200. As you can see the delicated scenery and character there, it seems like act in the reality.
The sequencial read of these two SSD is 1022MB/s, it features from the Super RAID technology. Applying the RAID 0 technical usually used in server into SSD to make the IOPS much better.
Take a look at its outward appearance again, bring it oudoor to see its color under natural light.
Fantastic~~
I would like to say, the GS60 Ghost Pro Golden is Lamborghini in gaming laptop!! It will be all the rage.

This year, GTX970M performance is even better than 880M, with GS60's slim design, I can only say the advance of technology is so amazing!!!

Cisco SA520 - Unable to block all torrents and Poor Performance

Hi, I have installed a Cisco SA520W Appliance at a Client who has about 40-50 PC's, the device has the latest firmware 2.1.7 and latest IPS signature (17) installed, the client is quite disappointed about the performance of the device as he believes Internet browsing access has slowed down substantially.
The main problem the client is encountering is that, he is unable to block Utorrent P2P software and this is not allowing him to retain Internet control from the SA520 appliance.
He had also commented on the fact that there does not appear to be a status monitor on IP usage of Internet access to pinpoint who at that time would be hogging up the bandwidth.
Any feedback, same encounters scenarios and possible fixes to the above issues would be appreciated.
Thanks
Shawn

You might find this thread interesting regarding the router's performance with IPS turned on. An SA540, and an access point, would yield slightly better performance. That's what we use.
https://supportforums.cisco.com/thread/2022832?tstart=60
There are some older threads regarding the SA500 series router's ability to detect torrent activity. You might want to dig them up and respond to them. The Cisco folks were working diligently at optimizing the IPS engine's ability to detect different types of torrent activity.
There is no way to monitor Internet access usage at the individual IP level that I am aware of. I suggest turning on network logging (to a syslog server as there will be a lot of data to capture) and monitor traffic that way. Kiwi Syslog Server has a free version that your client could use.
http://www.solarwinds.com/register/kiwi_registration.aspx?Program=874&c=70150000000EIV7

TRM: doubts in interest rate instrument and Business partner

Dear all,
While implementing Treasury Risk Management, in order to fulfill my clientsu2019 needs I have three questions regarding, 1. Interest rate instruments, 2.Leasings and 3.Business partners.
1.When creating a contract of an interest rate instrument , associated to a floating interest rate (e.g. EURIBOR 3M), how can I calculate the tax stamp which represents 4% of my interest rate amount, and occurs every time I have to pay interests?
I could define it in the u201Cother flowsu201D label but since the contract is associated to a variable, I never know how much my 4% of tax stamp calculated over the interest amount will represent.
2.When creating leasing contracts, how can I calculate the VAT associated to the periodic payments?
3.Is there any way to make postings to a business partner directly as a Vendor or a costumer?
Thanks in advance,
Regards,
Daniel

Hi,
Please consider following:
1. Generally TDS flows are generated automatically by system based on a revenue/expense flow. By configuring Derived FLows in system you can achieve this. Then alongwith every interest payment flow a TDS flow also will be generated based on the rate defined in system with seperate flow type, you can define account posting in spro.
The path for config- TRM-Trans Mgr- Money Market-Transaction Mgt- Flow Types- Derived FLows
2. Again since VAT is a derived flow for an actual cash flow, so you can achive this through derived flows config.
3. You can make posting to Business Partner account by performing following:
a. In master data, assign role of Customer to the Business Partner
b. Make payment settings in transaction to Customer and select payee/counterparty. While posting with TBB1, entries will be against Customer A/c and further clearing will be reqd at customer level against respective payment bank.
c. To achieve this output, you may require to define account determination accordingly for customers.
I suggest to post seperate thread for each issue rather than posting with single thread for better response.
Regards
Prasad AV

Design Patterns, OO Design, and J2ME performance

Hello- I am a J2ME newbie. I am a design patterny/OO kind of guy using J2SE. I'm trying to create a facade for the business logic on a project I'm working on which will work on both J2ME and J2SE. I have come up with an acceptable design, but I am afraid that the bytecode may end up being way too large for J2ME. For example, I used the command pattern for some functionality, which results in many small Command classes, which is nice for extensibility and functional encapsulation, but creates extra bytecode. Another example is I like to throw specific business exceptions, however, those also require a separate class for each exception. Another example is I like to use TypeSafe enumerations, again, new, unnecessary classes.
I am aware of some workarounds (create a generic business exception, just put info into the message, don't use the command pattern, use bytes for non-typesafe constants), but I find myself resisting due to my hardcore OO/best practices tendencies. I guess J2ME is a whole different programming paradigm. How are you guys dealing with these issues? The most important issues with J2ME programming are small footprint and high performance, right? I guess I could write more procedural-ish code, but I am interested in any compromises that the OO guys here have come up with. Also, what size is an acceptable library/sdk in J2ME?
thanks,
Abraham

I'm not an OO guy, but I can definitely say that you'll will have to find some comprmises in your designs (the generic business exeption is a very good example).
Since you are making business apps, you do get some leeway on two issues:
* As opposed to games, where every cycle counts, for a business app maintainability and scalability are you usually more important than performance, so OO techniques will often be a better choice than a slightly faster implementation.
* You probably have more control over the devices you will be targetting. The most common limitation for MIDlet size these days is 64KB, so a library that more than 20-30KB probably won't be any good on these phones. But if you know your apps will be run on higher end phones you can make it a lot bigger, since they can often have MIDlets that are up to several MB in size.
shmoove

Slow rendering and sluggish performance...

just built a new machine for cs3 prod studio. quad core 6850, 4 gig ram, xp sp2, 150 raptor boot, 2 500 wd re2 in raid 0 for data...get the picture, all good stuff. however I'm noticing very long rendering times as well as a slight sluggishness overall in pp cs3. I'm using the onboard raid from my asus p5k as well as the onboard sound. Is that the culprit? One of my other pc's is a qx6800 with same specs however I'm using an areca sata raid card for my data and creative sb x-fi elite for sound. btw I use cineform prospect hd for my editing. now I have a 15min video with very minimal editing, just a few dissolves basically, and it is taking 3 hours to render out the hd avi which takes 10 minutes on the other pc. Also when editing the pc seemed to lag when I performed edits. and when I'd play a clip it would start then the sound cuts out for 5 secs or so then comes back on. So what should I look for 1st? I'm thinking its the onboard raid sucking, but on a brand new install I'm sure there are some tweaks I'm missing. TIA

I started a post titled 'playback lag'. I have exactly the same symptoms you do. Did you find a fix?
My system is running Vista, I was thinking of going back to XP just to solve this issue but I see your running XP.
Is your integrated sound a SoundMAX device?
For some reason I can't find my original post - it looks like it's been deleted?
My original post used to be at
http://forum.adobe.com/webx?13@@.3bc793cc/8
I called Adobe support but they have no idea. I'm not even sure they know what Premiere is.

Best methods to speed up and increase performance of Linux?

I would like this thread to be dedicated to various speed up techniques and performance tweaks for Linux and especially arch.
K.Mandla offers quite a bit of interesting tweaks in the guide "Howto: Set up Hardy for speed", most of it applies to all linux distros.
http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/05/04 … for-speed/
If you have come across any interesting information relating to getting faster and better performance from Linux please do not hesitate to post. Thanks.

PrimoTurbo wrote:
I would like this thread to be dedicated to various speed up techniques and performance tweaks for Linux and especially arch.
K.Mandla offers quite a bit of interesting tweaks in the guide "Howto: Set up Hardy for speed", most of it applies to all linux distros.
http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/05/04 … for-speed/
If you have come across any interesting information relating to getting faster and better performance from Linux please do not hesitate to post. Thanks.
You will most likely end up wasting a lot of time for very little gain.
There are no miracle solutions, you either use faster apps or buy faster hardware.
The tweaks which are truly interesting without major drawbacks usually make their way on a default system, one way or another.
For example, for directory index on ext3 :
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ext … ystem_Tips : "Note: Directory indexing is activated by default in Archlinux via /etc/mke2fs.conf"
So if you want an advice, there are areas more interesting to explore, like programming for instance. You might end up having the capability to really improve apps performance, or write your own lighter alternatives.

Keeping a clean, secure and well performing machine...

Keeping a clean, secure system is tantamount to good computer performance. How do you do that? There are several things you should do which will ensure the best possibility of keeping a clean, secure and well performing machine:
1) Install anti-malware software
There are some very good "Free" programs available that are fully automated and will help to keep your system protected from malicious software. Some of these are listed Here...click the "Free Security Software Links Index" link, then click the "Anti-virus" link.
2) Practice safe surfing
"Safe Surfing" requires very little thought really. Using good common sense can help here. Avoid unscrupulous web sites. The "Web Of Trust" will help you identify many of those so you CAN avoid them.
3) Maintenance
Maintain your system by performing a disk cleanup and defrag on a regular basis.
Maintenance requires some planning. Your system accumulates debris from the web. "Debris", in the sense that many of these files are unnecessary to keep.
Getting rid of that debris is a simple process. Microsoft Windows users will find the free utilities provided by Microsoft, in all "Windows" platforms, are quite useful in helping users to maintain their systems. Those are, Disk Cleanup and Disk Defragmenter. You can find these tools by navigating to"
All Programs-->Accessories-->System Tools
...both are friendly and easy to use. I'd like though, to clear up some confusion regarding the "Defragmenter" utility. Many users will neglect a system defrag based upon the analysis findings. I should address the:
"You do not need to defragment this volume"
...message that the defrag analysis returns.
You see, when Microsoft wrote that utility for the Windows platform, there were two distinctly different target audiences to consider. Those are, the corporate and home users. Two very big markets, with very different "needs". The effort and intent was to reach a happy medium when considering the threshold levels that would still work well for both customer bases without causing any significant performance issues for either, should one or the other have to live by those thresholds.
If I explained that well, then you might understand that the "threshold" Microsoft chose for the defrag utility will flag either customer base when fragmentation reaches...let's say it's about 20% (I really don't know WHAT it is, but I do know it's pretty broad) and anything under that will be flagged as:
"You do not need to defragment this volume".
All that means, really, is that you can delay a defrag when an analysis scan returns such a message...but it certainly DOESN'T mean that you should not defrag.
As a general rule, I will perform a full system defrag when my file fragmentation is beyond 3%. For me, that's about twice a week. For you, let's say it might occur once a month. I don't know, only you would but you should keep an eye on it (make ita habit) and see how long it takes to find your fragmentation at about that level. It can vary widely because it depends on the number of files you create, or delete and what type of applications you run during a "usual" user session.
Email, for example, is an application (whether native or not) that causes the creation and deletion of files on the hard disk. If you use an online email client, think of the "browser cache" when it comes to the number of emails downloaded and deleted. Those are all files that become fragmented whether they're on the hard disk, or make up the garbage in the browser cache, makes no difference...it's all still disk space no matter how you think of it.
Don't forget, even if you have your browser set to empty the temp files when you close it, the size of that "dump" file can vacillate, so to empty the cache upon closing the browser makes the next browser session run better but does nothing to assuage disk fragmentation.
You'll see, if you do that, the system performs well on each session.
In summary, install Anti-virus software, practice safe surfing, and maintain your computer. Remember to clean the disk first, then perform the system defrag otherwise you'll be sorting the garbage along with fragmented free space and files.
Keep these principles in mind and your system will perform well giving you years of enjoyable computing.
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Member of Alliance of Security Analysis Professionals
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Hello, we have both Creative Cloud and Creative Cloud for teams. Can you help me with the difference and if i need to have both?

Hello, we have both Creative Cloud membership and Creative Cloud for team. Can you help me with the difference and if i need to have both? We have 9 employees that are using it. Just not sure if i'm paying for something i don't need.
Thank you

Please refer to Creative Cloud Help | Creative Cloud / Common Questions
CC is for retail use with 20 GB of storage space, CCT is where number of seats are purchased & assigned by one program admin where each seat gets 100GB of storage space.
You can not have both the CC & team in one account as it will only provide you added storage space of 120 GB but you can activate the CC any of them or either of them twice as CC is based on Adobe ID.
Regards
Rajshree

PC and Network Performance

Hello:
The City of Detroit is planning to upgrade to 11.03 or 11i. We are looking for network and PC performance minimums/maximums to support as a minimum 11i and any known future upgrades coming but not released. Is there a publication/white paper that would provide information, not only on the above, but would be the expected performance benchmarks for AP, AR, PO, GL, Projects & Grant HRMS, OTA, and FA? At the moment we are on 10.7 and interface with EMPAC. Users are spread over the City in numerous locations. We must assume that the user will have other non-Oracle apps open such as Office and GroupWise.
Thanks,
J
Gerald R J Heuer
313-224-2109
Beeper: 313-275-6714
F:313-224-9342
[email protected]
1232 Coleman A Young Municipal Center
2 Woodward Ave
Detroit MI 48226

The information is available in Appsnet under the 'Technology' Tab and you would need to look at some of the White Papers - including one with the name 'Nothing but Net' and the Network Performance Presentation.
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My solution for: Slow Installs and poor performance

So up until today, most of anyting on XP or even vista 64 ultimate was taking a very long time to install or copy from one part of the drive to another. Startup would grow longer and game performance was dying and only once ever did reinstalling the OS do anything. No matter what I did, nothing would fix the problem.
I ran multiple utilities (disk utility, disk warrior, tech tool deluxe, etc) but none said that there was a hardware problem. But this issue I was having (and I know some of you do) was definitely related to the computer. From my experience, I determined that there was no way this mac was perfect.
So I scheduled a service and repair at my apple store (under warranty). When it was done a few days later, sure enough, I was told that even though the utilities we users can use on our end to diagnose problems didn't find any problems, the hard drive did not pass apple's detailed inspection and was replaced.
In conclusion, I say that if you are having this problem, run disk utility and if you have the extra protection plan, download the Tech Tool Deluxe that apple provides on the support site. Disk utility may find some permission and disk issues but if Tech Tool doesnt find anything even on the surface scan, take it in to the apple store to have a Genius look at it. If it's not under warranty, it's up to you whether or not you want to spend that money. Overall, my computer both on Leopard and XP now runs just as it should.
Hope that helps.

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Safari hangs and poor performance in MBPR (Mid 2012)

Safari hangs and poor performance in MBPR (Mid 2012)? OS X 10.10.2 is up to date

Please answer as many of the following questions as you can. You may already have answered some of them. In that case, there's no need to repeat the answers.
Back up all data before making any changes.
Have you restarted your router and your broadband device (if they're separate) since you first noticed the problem? If not, do that now and see whether there's any change.
If your browser is Safari, then from the Safari menu bar, select
Safari ▹ Preferences... ▹ Privacy ▹ Remove All Website Data
and confirm. If the Downloads button (with the icon of a downward-pointing arrow) is showing in the toolbar, click it and then click Clear in the box that appears. The download history will be removed. Any change?
If you're running OS X 10.9 or later, select the Advanced tab in the Preferences window and uncheck the box marked
Stop plug-ins to save power
Any change?
Quit and relaunch the browser. Any change?
Enable guest logins* and log in as Guest. Don't use the Safari-only “Guest User” login created by “Find My Mac.”
While logged in as Guest, you won’t have access to any of your documents or settings. Applications will behave as if you were running them for the first time. Don’t be alarmed by this behavior; it’s normal. If you need any passwords or other personal data in order to complete the test, memorize, print, or write them down before you begin.
Test while logged in as Guest. Same problem?
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