Computer Hope
Software => Computer games => Topic started by: xXPyroMonsterXX on February 08, 2006, 07:01:46 PM
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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?
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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
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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 :-/.
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"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.
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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*
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Do you have much junk running in the background?
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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.....
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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?
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Do the games play OK when you are not playing online?
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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.....
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Send it to me. I'll bet I can make it purr. ;)
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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.