natasd

Okay, I recently formatted and reinstalled Windows a couple of days ago. I downloaded and installed all of the latest drivers for my hardware.

The problem I am having is when I am playing a game, especially World of Warcraft. When I turn my camera or turn my character in a 360 degree motion, the screen lags up and starts to skip frames. It seems to run smooth with no problems as long as I don't turn my camera. I was not having this problem before in reinstalled Windows.

I have tried with my settings on max and also as low as I could get them and the problem is the same. I have even tried older games that require less resources and still the same problem.

System:

AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+, MMX, 3DNow (2 CPUs), ~2.3GHz
2048MB RAM
DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 256.0 MB

emosun

Are your motherboard drivers installed? Chipset drivers and such?

Mcninjaguy

Display Driver
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_185.85_whql.html

Directx 9
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

Dual Core optimizer
http://support.amd.com/us/Pages/dyna...42f&ItemID=153

natasd

The stock drivers from the CD-ROM that came with my motherboard are installed.

EDIT: I did however update my CPU drivers.

natasd

Downloaded and installed DX, but had the current release. The other two I am for sure up to date on.

natasd

Wanted to add.

I tried to play Star Wars Jedi Knight II and on the main menu there is a spinning 3D star wars symbol and when I would move the mouse back and forth, it would cause the frame rate to skip and that symbol to stop spinning and just lag. When I stopped moving the mouse, everything ran smooth.

Entered the game and had the same problems. Only happens when I try to turn the camera to look around.

emosun

It almost sounds like cpu lagg. I had a similar experience in gta4. You have tried the dual core optimizer? Are you running any other cpu intensive tasks (anti virus programs , firewalls , downloads)?

Mcninjaguy

For the AMD dual Core optimizer there's a download link and its the light blue/green word download

What CPU drivers? The only driver you need for your CPU is the dual core optimizer the rest is unnecessary.

Do you know how to install the GPU driver?

natasd

Yes, I have the dual core optimizer installed.

Since it's a fresh install, I don't have a lot of programs running in the background. I do have a security suite running though. Trend Micro Internet Security.

natasd

CPU driver I got from the AMD website. I only installed them because I was getting the lag problem and thought I would update any drivers I thought might help. So, I was having the problem before I even updated them.

Advanced Micro Devices
8/10/2007
1.0.0.0
Microsoft Windows Hardware Compatibility Publisher

One thing I did find kind of strange though, was the driver version before update was greater than 1.0.0.0 but the date was around 2004 or 05. After I updated, the version went down but the date was earlier 2007.

EDIT: I went into safe mode, uninstalled my GPU driver, rebooted, came back and installed the new one.

natasd

ha ha, oh wow. You mentioned the anti-virus. I clicked it off from the taskbar and bam, games runs so smooth now. So dumb that I didn't think to try that before I came on here.

I thank you for your time and help. Sorry I didn't try that first.

You gentlemen have a good one.

Mcninjaguy

You don't have the Anti virus running right now?

If it is solved mark it as solved under thread tools.

emosun

Had a feeling it was cpu , glad it's working.