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Software => Computer games => Topic started by: blakflagpunk on July 18, 2005, 10:37:50 AM

Title: help with runescape
Post by: blakflagpunk on July 18, 2005, 10:37:50 AM: i have a windows 98 and i dont consider it to be the slowest computer in teh world but its not teh fastest. i can play half life and empire earth on it but i cant play a mmorpg called runescape on it. everything goes smoothly untill i start playing. when i move my guy the entire screen has to reload. and it takes 5 minutes to do.when teh screen doesnt reaload it lags so bad that by the time the guy moves i have to login again.can some1 please help me with this
Title: Re: help with runescape
Post by: Flame on July 18, 2005, 12:21:14 PM: How do you connect to the internet? Dial-up? have you scanned for viruses and Spyware? Is your Java up to date?

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Title: Re: help with runescape
Post by: blakflagpunk on July 18, 2005, 06:53:59 PM: i have dial up but at the moment i have no way of scanning for virusees and spyware and i think my java is up to date,im not really sure how to tell
Title: Re: help with runescape
Post by: Flame on July 18, 2005, 07:11:45 PM: Are you saying that you have no virus or Spyware protection? That is a BIG "no no"... You need to have such software... My guess is Spyware right now, but you never know...

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Title: Re: help with runescape
Post by: sovietspark on July 18, 2005, 07:55:13 PM: Consider Lavasoft's AdAware (http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/) and AVG Anti-Virus (http://www.grisoft.com/). Both products that I use, and both completely free.
Title: Re: help with runescape
Post by: blakflagpunk on July 18, 2005, 10:05:13 PM: if its free then how come the avg is asking me to buy 1 liscenses for 48.95?
Title: Re: help with runescape
Post by: Raptor on July 19, 2005, 05:47:35 AM: Quote
if its free then how come the avg is asking me to buy 1 liscenses for 48.95?

Because you are being negligent.

Virus scanners
AVG Free (http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1)
-- Anti virus scanner

Anti spy/malware
Microsoft Antispyware (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=321cd7a2-6a57-4c57-a8bd-dbf62eda9671&displaylang=en)
-- Anti spyware scanner. Windows XP Home and Professional only.
Spybot Search & Destroy (http://www.safer-networking.org/en/mirrors/index.html)
-- Anti spyware scanner
Adaware SE Personal (http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/)
-- Anti spyware scanner

Firewalls
Using only one firewall is advised. Dual firewalls may cause problems.
Using a hardware firewall and a software firewall is even more adviced.
ZoneAlarm Free (http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp)
-- Free firewall - more user friendly
Sygate Personal (http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm)
-- Free firewall - more configuration options

Removal tools
The following files are not substitutes for the ones described above.
They are either diagnostic tools or removal tools for malware of a certain kind

HijackThis (http://www.merijn.org/files/hijackthis.zip)
-- Manual malware remover. Post the HijackThis log generated only if requested!
McAfee Stinger (http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/)
-- Virus removal tool. No substitute for a fully functional virus scanner!
CWshredder (http://www.intermute.com/spysubtract/cwshredder_download.html)
-- CoolWebSearch removal tool. Widely known and persistant Hijacker.
Title: Re: help with runescape
Post by: Flame on July 19, 2005, 06:40:08 AM: Scan with them. Chances are you have something in there... Runescape sometimes has Spyware coming from pop-ups, etc. Also, have you tried running a Disk Cleanup to delete unwanted Cookies and temporary Files?

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Title: Re: help with runescape
Post by: blakflagpunk on July 20, 2005, 01:55:04 PM: ty for the help i greatly appreciate it
Title: Re: help with runescape
Post by: Flame on July 20, 2005, 02:30:30 PM: Sure. Come on back and see us if you have any more questions! ;)

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