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philb7 · 01-04-2008, 10:35 PM

Was the game compatible with your operating system and resources?
CD drives do sometimes fail. I had one that overheated on large installs and that caused installation failures. Try using a CD disc cleaning disc to clean the reader. It uses the same cleaner as stereo CD players. There are also utilities that test the CD Rom drive read/write performance.
I hope you regularly use System Restore and set recovery points before making changes.
Go into it at: Accessories/SystemTools/SystemRestore and select the second option which will display dates of retore points available. Pick one made before your problem started and restore your system to those settings. CCleaner is good as well but you said that you had already run a reg utility. CCleaner will do that and much more.
I had a similar problem (running so slow it seemed backwards) and found that I had a defective power supply (the -5 was dead). Power supply testers are cheap and should be used during upgrades and even on new power supply units.

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philb7 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 70 OS: WIN XP SP2	Re: MY COMPUTER GONE VERY SLOW! What the hell? Was the game compatible with your operating system and resources? CD drives do sometimes fail. I had one that overheated on large installs and that caused installation failures. Try using a CD disc cleaning disc to clean the reader. It uses the same cleaner as stereo CD players. There are also utilities that test the CD Rom drive read/write performance. I hope you regularly use System Restore and set recovery points before making changes. Go into it at: Accessories/SystemTools/SystemRestore and select the second option which will display dates of retore points available. Pick one made before your problem started and restore your system to those settings. CCleaner is good as well but you said that you had already run a reg utility. CCleaner will do that and much more. I had a similar problem (running so slow it seemed backwards) and found that I had a defective power supply (the -5 was dead). Power supply testers are cheap and should be used during upgrades and even on new power supply units.