Build Advice why is my pc so slow?

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  1. bagman

    bagman Minimodder

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    i don't understand it recently my pc's performce has gone down quite dramaticly every since i bought two new games c&c first decade and prostreet my system specs are

    q6600 3.20
    2gb 1066
    8800gt
    evga 750i Cheesecake

    prostreet did work fine for first day then funny stuff kept coming on screen and kept on frezing put new drivers on my 8800gt worked fine for 1 more day but to day it is slow as hell

    first decade generals won't even load up went to go download new patches, when i try to install drivers half way throgh they say found the right file name but nothing in file

    so guys do you know what is going on should i just wipe my hard drive and start again or should i reinstall windows vista prem 32bit :confused::confused::confused:

    edit: forgot to tell you guys i game at 1280x1080
     
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  2. gaz_360

    gaz_360 Make that change

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    Does it seem to be your whole PC is generally slow, or just in games?

    If its your whole PC, then try and make sure everything is up to date driver wise etc, run defrag (it does work :D). You may want to go as far as updating your BIOS too, but thats something that may be seen as a last resort.

    If it's just in games, then is it possible your card may be at fault in some way? Make sure the card is in the slot correctly and do the regular checks etc.

    Also what are the temps of your CPU/GPU?

    Gaz :)
     
  3. Pookeyhead

    Pookeyhead It's big, and it's clever.

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    What OS you got now? If you're on XP now, no, don't, because Vista is a bit of a pig with 2Gb. Even if you do, don't go for 32bit... definitely get 64bit.


    Checked for viruses/Trojans/worms?
     
  4. rickysio

    rickysio N900 | HJE900

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    Try Windows 7. Much faster than Vista for some reason.

    My 'perceived' internet speed (Page load time with the same Build of Minefield) sped up with 7 for some reason too!
     
  5. GoodBytes

    GoodBytes How many wifi's does it have?

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    As much I want to say "yes" on Vista or Win7 64-bit. I must say no at 100%, 2GB is not enough.
    It's not that the OS absolutely take so much RAM, but it's the OS features that does (superfecth, and Aero, to name 2). Sure you can disable those and Vista/Win7 drastically drop in RAM usage, but you kill the OS experience and response time, where you end up with shitty results shown with Vista, as many, including bit-tech, failed to the testing correctly as they still though the OS was like XP, where they don't understand that programs/service can optimize the system end result operation. Anyway...

    Get more RAM if you are going with Win7 or Vista. 3GB I would say is the pure minimum (and that comes a guy that has 3Gb of RAM in his system (see signature) because he doens't want to pay 300$ for 2GB DDR1 stick as it's not made anymore).
    4GB is what I would recommend anyone.
     
  6. rickysio

    rickysio N900 | HJE900

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    I was running Vista 32bit with 2GB of RAM for 1 year!

    And I completed GTASA, SupCom with a Pentium 4 and 512MB of DDR1 RAM using Intel Graphics!

    I guess with my exposure to VERY low end systems any speed boost seems dramatic.

    Now I'm using 7 32bit with 4GB of DDR2-800 RAM, as 64 bit requires me to re-install everything, something I'd only do when 7 is in retail.
     
  7. bagman

    bagman Minimodder

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    i fixed the problem, with my pc being so slow but genrals is stilll playing up getting to starting point where gives logo of genrals in middle of screen then the game just frezzes and after a miniute or so it disapears ??
     
  8. GoodBytes

    GoodBytes How many wifi's does it have?

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    What was the problem?
     
  9. ar09

    ar09 What's a Dremel?

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    i once read that games make radical modifications to the os, in order to get better fps's, better response, playability, etc...

    try reformat, and do a clean reinstall, after, do then benchmarks and then reinstall the games and see if the same happens again.
     
  10. GoodBytes

    GoodBytes How many wifi's does it have?

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    ROFL!

    Ok,
    1- it's against the law to modify/decompile a software code, this include operating systems, that is not yours.
    2- This is not true at all!
    3- The only one that tried to do this, is Sony's SecuRom DRM rootkit copy protection system, which is pack with security holes and makes your system extremely venerable. However, that is still no system file modification.
    4- The Operating System has deep protection system to not allow such thing. Of course it can be hacked/by-passed. But your games are not virus.
    5- That is still not true at all!
    6- Hacking the OS won't give you more FPS... a computer is NOT A CAR ENGINE where you can tweak it for better performance/gas mileage depending on your needs. Evey thing is already optimized.
    7- How can a company, not Microsoft, know ANYTHING about Windows internals, to judge how to make something more responsive?! Utterly non-sense.
    8- The only thing a game setup does at worst, is place some important libraries (sometimes seen as .dll files) that could be shared among other application such as, and most of the case, Microsoft DirectX... no not the actual DirectX, but files that the game need of a specific version of DirectX library to use the OS and video card DirectX system. I know it's confusing as both (library files and the engine) have the same name but it's not. The libarray files are identified as "DirectX runtime", and the other thing on your GPU and OS is just names "DirectX". Runtime can't replace the actual DirectX.
    To put simply, a library file is a set of pre-made sets of instruction program can use, to simplify the programmers life. For example: I want to draw a cube, instead of putting all the code to draw my triangles, position them, color them and worry about optimization, when I can just use "drawCube(3, 10, 100, gray);" that's about it. So, DirectX 9 runtime version 2.4 let's say, is sets of pre-made function that the game uses to make use of the actual DirectX to use, as later versions might have not been out at the moment of development or un-tested by the dev team. And the older version might contain bugs. There are no conflict in this, as each version has a different library name.
     
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  11. WTF_Shelley

    WTF_Shelley The picture is wheeljack

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    Biggest 'Boot to spuds!' evar:jawdrop:
     
  12. rickysio

    rickysio N900 | HJE900

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    Debatable, but for most cases yes. Still a massive kick to the nads for ar09 though. XD
     
  13. hotnikkelz

    hotnikkelz What's a Dremel?

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    try reformatting :)
    or get a better antivirus
     
  14. mooseguy

    mooseguy Crazy Moose

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    That was so awesome it gets a +rep :D
     

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