Zipzopdippidybopbop Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 hi guys. basically, within the last few days my games have begun to experience a severe amount of lag. fallout 3, oblivion, empire total war AND cod4 (1) are all lagging, so much that i cannot play cod4 anymore. i havent changed a thing, and this morning i cleaned my computer, and re-applied thermal paste to the CPU. still no difference. im currently using: Intel Core Duo @ 1.86 GHZ/1.87GHZ3.00 GB RAM (DDR2)ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series I also ran a disk defrag and disk cleanup - also removed unused windows components. not a difference. this is incredibly frustrating. anyone got any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaosals42 Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 Maybe you'd want to go back and ask yourself what you might've done a few days back that could've led to a system slow-down. If need be, maybe you should run a system restore. If that doesn't fix it, then it's probably something with hardware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zipzopdippidybopbop Posted November 27, 2009 Author Share Posted November 27, 2009 i notice that on the 25th it says *software distribution service 3.0* that have anything in relation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaosals42 Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 i notice that on the 25th it says *software distribution service 3.0* that have anything in relation? It may, but I don't have the same computer as you do. It's something that'd probably be worth checking out, though be sure that it isn't something your computer relies on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zipzopdippidybopbop Posted November 27, 2009 Author Share Posted November 27, 2009 ok did sys restore by about 4 days. not a significant change, although i noticed that about a week ago it said *installed direct x* -i have no recollection of updating my direct x. should i attempt to install the latest version, or update my graphics drivers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zipzopdippidybopbop Posted November 27, 2009 Author Share Posted November 27, 2009 OMG i think iv solved it. i recently downloaded two worlds, but in order to run it i needed to install AGEIA physx drivers. its probably that which is causing this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaLkAwaY Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 Virus? Malware? Spyware? You probably already thought of that though but I figured I would throw it out there. :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaosals42 Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 OMG i think iv solved it. i recently downloaded two worlds, but in order to run it i needed to install AGEIA physx drivers. its probably that which is causing this! Good job finding the problem then! :thumbsup: Though I'm kinda surprised the restore didn't remove the installation, as I had originally thought it always removed all and any installation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krunk Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 Glad you maybe figured it out, but anytime my computer suddenly starts acting clumsy, I immediately go check my video card driver page. It almost always means I've gotten behind on my updates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zipzopdippidybopbop Posted November 28, 2009 Author Share Posted November 28, 2009 hmm strange. i removed those nividia drivers, but im still gettin lag. so i removed my video card drivers completely, and did a fresh install of them. now when i goto device manager and check the virtual memory - its manually set to 2000MB for paging size... isnt that wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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