Framerates issues

Hello – I’m hoping someone can help me with a problem I’m having. I play World of Warcraft and normally have on average 45-55 fps. For the past month or so I’ve been having issues in the morning or whenever I restart my computer where my fps will go from 45-50 to 2 or 3 for about a minute and then go back to 45-50. This will rinse and repeat for about an hour or so and then will stop completely.

I thought that this could just be an internet issue but the same thing happens when I’m play Sims 2. I can’t see the actual framerates but when I “scroll” through the game to get to other areas in the house it’s very sluggish at times and then goes back to normal. I can also see this when I’m playing app games on Facebook, like Farmville.

I’ve checked my processes and couldn’t see anything that shouldn’t be running. I ran my spybot program and avg and nothing glaring came up. I did a reinstall of Windows XP and did a defrag when I saw that I had over 100k fragmented files. (I don’t defrag often!) Nothing has helped or changed this.

The only thing I did notice during my searches on my system was all of my system restore points were gone and Service Pack 2 had been uninstalled off of my computer.

Any ideas or thoughts?

 

No, SP2 and my restore points were gone BEFORE I did the reinstall of XP. All of the framerate issues I am having were there before the XP reinstall. I did the XP reinstall as a trial and error of sorts to see if I could figure out what was going on.

I haven’t reinstalled SP2 since I did the reinstall of XP yesterday. I still need to do that. I have updated all drivers for the motherboard, gfx card, etc. after the XP reinstall.

The security applications I use are Spybot Search & Destory and AVG

The specs of my system are:

Processor: AMD Athlon X2 4600+ 2.4GHz (Dual Core) (1 MB Cache) w/HyperTransport
Motherboard: Asus M2N SLI Deluxe (nForce 570 SLI)
Memory: 2GB DDR2 Corsair at 667MHz (Dual Channel)
Gfx Card: nVidia GeForce 8500GTX 512MB eVGA brand

 

I was having similar problems with my games(and my internet browsers) and nobody seemed like they knew what was going on.

I stumbled across a few posters in the software forums that were talking about a game software that sped up games and is downloadable here. I downloaded these 2 programs

http://majorgeeks.com/Game_Booster_d5952.html

Can use this to auto shutoff non needed programs when you want to game. It also defrags each game if you want.

and this

http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=5927

which is another spyware removal program that also cleans up junk files, a privacy sweep(cleans up browsers of old bs you dont need), and repairs registry errors.

I used both of these programs(the second one when it scans your pc you can check and uncheck what you want it to delete so make sure you check to see if its deleting things you want to keep) and my pc runs much faster, browsers don't auto reload or stop working all of a sudden, and my games seem to run from at least a little to extremely better.

I think my problem was mostly the 185 registry errors it found and the fact you can defrag each game separately may be the key.

Hope this helps some. If not, then just punch me.

 

Hi Siobhan, do you connect via a modem or router? Router is better if it's always on, allows most versions of DSL to hold a better connection.

Games are pretty heavy on RAM, graphics memory, virtual memory and hard drive data read/writes; to help you optimise the PC for this type of use, that Everest report would be very useful ^_^

 

The program i started using is called pc health optimizer free edition http://download.cnet.com/PC-Health-Optimizer-Free-Edition/3000-2086_4-10714910.html?tag=mncol it has a lot of features!