Online Games FPS (Frames Per Second)

[xXPyroMonsterXX]

This has been an issue with my computer for a year now . Ill start from the beginning...
Two years ago I played Counter Strike and it worked just fine, later on I went to play World of Warcraft and my FPS was just awful. People said it was my RAM, so I went out and bought another stick of 254 so I had 512 RAM, more than enough to run the game (double). The game ran just fine for a day then my computer got worse again. People said it was my video card now. I have a GeForce 3 and yes I relize its not the best but it still works and I do upgrade it. This problem still continued even when I got a GeForce 4. They said it is my computer now, my GHz couldnt handlew the game. So I relized I wasnt going to get a new computer for awhile I would go back to Counter Strike (present). Now my computer barly runs Counter Strike... I am gitting 9 FPS now... I found out that the more people I am around the less FPS I get. Now people on Counter Strike are saying it's my Video Card!     Here are my specs.

Windows XP Home Addition
Intel (R) 4 CPU 1700MHz
1.69 GHz (bought in 99 I think) 512MB of RAM
Video Card: GeForce 4
Comcast Internet Connection.

A game that was once fine on my computer sucks now. Every day my computer gets worse. I think it is because it is old and I need a new one no more upgrades.... Am I right or wrong? If I am wrong what is the problem?

[GX1_Man]

Do all of this and be sure and run ccleaner too! How much free space do you have on the drive? Defragged lately?

http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1134123580

www.ccleaner.com

[xXPyroMonsterXX]

Do all of this and be sure and run ccleaner too! How much free space do you have on the drive? Defragged lately?

http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1134123580

www.ccleaner.com

I have cleaned my computer and i have like 40 Gig left on my hard drive *half full computer*
I cleaned internet cookies I defragged like so many times. I reformated like 6 times.
I will try the ccleaner when I get home though because I am at school. Thanks for the link.
If this cleaner doesnt work would It be my  computer? Because im like sooo close to smashing
this one to pieces and buying a new one :-/.

[GX1_Man]

"New" won't solve it for long. You need to deal with the underlying issues, or you will be back soon enough.

Try the other scans mentioned as well. You need to start with a clean system.

[xXPyroMonsterXX]

yeah but I cleaned my system out soo many times with different softwhere I dont really think that is the issue . I tried that CCleaner and that didnt work neather . I even took it apart 5 times to dust it. *once last night*

[Fed]

Do you have much junk running in the background?

[xXPyroMonsterXX]

Do you have much junk running in the background?

No, nothing in my background = \. This is a problem I had for a year I checked EVERYTHING basicly.... So is it my crapy computer or not.....

[GX1_Man]

If it used to work fine and now it doesn't, you either have a software or a configuration problem. If nothing else changed there is no other explanation. Wear and tear or old age does not do this.

What could have changed?

[Fed]

Do the games play OK when you are not playing online?

[xXPyroMonsterXX]

If it used to work fine and now it doesn't, you either have a software or a configuration problem. If nothing else changed there is no other explanation. Wear and tear or old age does not do this.

What could have changed?

Nothing could have changed that I can think of except my card and the RAM... Im just going to buy a new computer because im done with this....

Another thing!! I cant paly a game on my computer anymore unless its online! Definatly gitting a new computer....

Things I have done to help this piece of crap...
Reformatted:       around 7 times
Defragged:          over 50
CleanSweep:       over 100
Dusted:               5 times
VirusSweep:        about 16
SpybotSweep:      about 46
Asked for help:    500 times... *dont know how many times exactly.... but more than 50*


Yeah I am definatly done with this computer... thanks for trying to help my problem but I guess it just cannot be fixed.....

[GX1_Man]

Send it to me. I'll bet I can make it purr.  

[Fed]

Don't give up, with a clean install and all drivers, patches, SPs & directx updated it should run as good as it ever has offline.
Any online slowdowns after that should be attributed to the connection between you & the game server or the game server itself.