Games/Video Problems

Ingsoq · 08-24-2006, 03:09 PM

First of all, I guess I'll say hello, I'm new to the forum .

Now, on to my problem. For probably a month now, I've had a few problems, and throughout that time, I've brought it into a professional, and have reinstalled Windows. This, however, didn't fix my computer. The first problem is that whenever I play a game, namely Diablo II and World of Warcraft, it lags extremely badly. For D2, it just seems to run in extremely low FPS,and in WoW, everything is simply jagged, and very slow. My system meets the specs, and before the problems began, I could play both without a hint of lag. I'm almost certain I don't have any viruses or spyware, and I've done several Defrags and Disk Scans without any solutions. The second problem is that I can't play any videos without lag. Every few seconds it'll freeze for, maybe, a second or so. Other than this I can't think of any hints to help pinpoint the problem...

I've also checked and made sure that no processes except the necessary ones are running in the background. I've shut off my firewall as well. Any help would be greatly appreciated .

Here's my system specs (nothing special, but it should run these games
-Intel Celeron D 320, 2400 MHz (18 x 133)
-Biostar P4VMA-M (3 PCI, 1 AGP, 2 DDR DIMM, Audio, Video, LAN)
-512 MB (PC2700 DDR SDRAM)
-ATI Radeon 9550 (RV350)
-Western Digital WDC WD800JB-00JJA0 (74 GB, IDE) Hardrive

HawMan · 08-24-2006, 04:15 PM

Whats your PSU?

Check the Temps, Could be dusty and overheating.

Also, welcome to the forums :)

**koala** · 08-24-2006, 04:32 PM

When you reinstalled Windows, did you update your graphics drivers, motherboard chipset drivers and DirectX?

Ingsoq · 08-24-2006, 05:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HawMan

Whats your PSU?

Check the Temps, Could be dusty and overheating.

Also, welcome to the forums :)

The PSU is 350W.

I checked the temp and when I started up Diablo II, it jumped from 62-63ish degrees to about 70. However, I don't know if that's significant.

Quote:

Originally Posted by koala

When you reinstalled Windows, did you update your graphics drivers, motherboard chipset drivers and DirectX?

Yep.

**Doby** · 08-24-2006, 07:54 PM

70C is hot for a cpu temp so I would try getting a can of compressed air and clean the dust out of the cpu heatsink and powersupply.

The "professional" should have already checked and cleaned this.

Caution when using compressed air keep the can upright do not tilt on its side as this can cause liquid to spray out that can harm computer parts, also do not use a electric vacum, this can casuse static electricity that is harmfull to computer parts

08-24-2006, 03:09 PM	#1 (permalink)
Ingsoq Registered User Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 4 OS: Windows XP	Games/Video Problems First of all, I guess I'll say hello, I'm new to the forum . Now, on to my problem. For probably a month now, I've had a few problems, and throughout that time, I've brought it into a professional, and have reinstalled Windows. This, however, didn't fix my computer. The first problem is that whenever I play a game, namely Diablo II and World of Warcraft, it lags extremely badly. For D2, it just seems to run in extremely low FPS,and in WoW, everything is simply jagged, and very slow. My system meets the specs, and before the problems began, I could play both without a hint of lag. I'm almost certain I don't have any viruses or spyware, and I've done several Defrags and Disk Scans without any solutions. The second problem is that I can't play any videos without lag. Every few seconds it'll freeze for, maybe, a second or so. Other than this I can't think of any hints to help pinpoint the problem... I've also checked and made sure that no processes except the necessary ones are running in the background. I've shut off my firewall as well. Any help would be greatly appreciated . Here's my system specs (nothing special, but it should run these games -Intel Celeron D 320, 2400 MHz (18 x 133) -Biostar P4VMA-M (3 PCI, 1 AGP, 2 DDR DIMM, Audio, Video, LAN) -512 MB (PC2700 DDR SDRAM) -ATI Radeon 9550 (RV350) -Western Digital WDC WD800JB-00JJA0 (74 GB, IDE) Hardrive

08-24-2006, 04:32 PM	#3 (permalink)
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08-24-2006, 07:54 PM	#5 (permalink)
Doby Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Central PA (USA) Posts: 8,104 OS: XP sp2/ Vista My System	70C is hot for a cpu temp so I would try getting a can of compressed air and clean the dust out of the cpu heatsink and powersupply. The "professional" should have already checked and cleaned this. Caution when using compressed air keep the can upright do not tilt on its side as this can cause liquid to spray out that can harm computer parts, also do not use a electric vacum, this can casuse static electricity that is harmfull to computer parts __________________ Would you like to help TSF fight cancer and other diseases??? JOIN TEAM TSF

08-24-2006, 04:15 PM	#2 (permalink)
HawMan Liam Join Date: May 2006 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland Posts: 2,943 OS: Win XP My System	Whats your PSU? Check the Temps, Could be dusty and overheating. Also, welcome to the forums :)