Performane Issues in Games

[Fiery Phoenix]

PC was running fine - no problems playing Doom 3, FIFA 2007, etc. Now all of a suddent it gets very sluggish when it wasnt doing this previously

I have a Pentium D processor ( 2 x CPU's ) 1022MB RAM, Windows XP

My graphics card is a Ge-Force 7300 SE ( ForceWare 91.63 )

I know this isnt the best graphics card available, but I wasnt having these sluggish problem last week whilst using the same card.

I have run SpyBot & Ad-Aware - all clean, Nod32 anti Virus and also ran PC Pitstop Optimize - all ok

I also tried the newer ForceWear version - all to no avail.

Please can someone help - I have tried everything and would really be most grateful

Thankyou

[MonkeyBoy]

I see your problem. What you need to do is download Ubuntu Dapper Drake disk image. You need to burn this to a disk then make sure your bios is set to boot from cd. Start the pc with the disk in and click the Install to Harddrive icon on the desktop. Make sure you select "Use all available space" when it asks you about partitions. Your pc will now work a lot better and you wont be over run with viruses etc.

Disclaimer: Monkeyboy accepts no responsibility if by following his advice you render your pc unbootable and lose a load of data or find that all you windows games cds are worth no more than beermats.

[Fiery Phoenix]

Sounds a bit scary!!! Ha ha - no simpilar tweak available that doesnt involve messing with you BIOS?

[MonkeyBoy]

Sorry Phoenix. I was being a bit cheeky there and was suggesting that you replace your windows with ubuntu linux.

If you are finding windows slowing down it might be worth pressing CTRL, ALT, DEL and checking your system processes. If you check through all of the running processes and google the mystery ones you may find that your pc is doing something behind the scenes that is caning your resources.

I did this on a windows pc a few years ago and made scripts to stop and start all the non essential processes. It made games run a bit faster.

My previous suggestion stands though. Give a live Ubuntu disk a try. You never know...you might like it.:)

[_simon_]

As said above, check what's running in the background, something could either be eating memory or your cpu.

Also i think you're posting on the wrong forum, this is an Ubuntu linux forum and this section is really just for talking about windows.

I'd suggest you try: http://www.computerforum.com you should get lots of help over there.

[Brunellus]

As said above, check what's running in the background, something could either be eating memory or your cpu.

Also i think you're posting on the wrong forum, this is an Ubuntu linux forum and this section is really just for talking about windows.

I'd suggest you try: http://www.computerforum.com you should get lots of help over there.
this section was really intended to be used for talk about Windows/Ubuntu/*nix INTEROPERABILITY or compatibility...

[Rodneyck]

There was an interesting post on this forum, although I can not find it at the moment, about Windows XP slowing down starting at about 6 months of use. If I remember it was mainly because the registry becomes full and it takes more passes through it when running programs and games, than when initially installed, etc. If you ever put a fresh copy of windows on your system after running XP for awhile, you know what the article is talking about. It is much faster.

So, you could also try a registry cleaner, I suppose, or as someone posted above, move to linux. :)