COD4 suddenly extremely slow

[Barfo]

Really weird issue, I'm guessing you already tried starting the game in safe mode? did you use driver sweeper when you switched between different driver sets?

 

[Atheus]

Originally posted by: MrWizzard
LOL, well if it was me at this point I would start swapping out hardware, but I have enough spare parts to do that.

Yea I have way too much hardware too I could swap out for another vid card but I'm fairly sure the thing is physically fine. I take good care of it. Plus it runs Dead Space with no problems for example - a very demanding game.

You could try an OS re-install, but that is a lot of work. Do you have an extra hard drive that you can re-install to? That way if it does not work you can always just plop the current os reinstall back into the computer?

Most of my data is on seperate drives or on my servers so I can format the main drive without too much hassle. Really can't be bothered but that's probably what I'll end up doing.

Out of curiosity I forgot have you taken away your OC to see what happens?

No but I have run a load of stress tests like Prime, SuperPi, etc. It's stable. I'll do one more thing - run 3Dmark and see if the score is comparable to other 8800GTs. I'll watch the temps too I suppose it could be throttling or something. The thing is I actually reseated the vid card heatsink with some new Arctic Silver and cleaned all the dust off the fan a couple of weeks ago. Temps were great when I ran tests after that.

 

[Atheus]

Originally posted by: MrWizzard

Originally posted by: Atheus
I assumed none of this was relevent but hey I'm clutching at straws now...

Things I have did to the machine directly before the issue:

- I wrote some Javascript which caused Firefox 3 to develop some kind of mental problem. That's fixed now.
- I messed around with Project64, the N64 emulator - I think I was trying to get a texture pack to work properly. I installed a couple sound and video plugins on Project64. They shouldn't affe4ct anything when P64 is not running. Right?
- I installed Left 4 Dead. this is when Steam prompted me to upgrade my drivers.

Have you tried rolling back to before that? Even though we are clutching at straws, too bad you can't get your hands on a retail copy of COD4 that does not need the steam app.... what if it's something to do with the steam app that is causing it?

That was my earliest restore point. I do have retail COD4 - it was the Left 4 Dead install that prompted driver update. Left 4 Dead is now gone after the rollback.

Originally posted by: barfo
did you use driver sweeper when you switched between different driver sets?

The first couple of times I did. I didn't with the most recent reinstall but the rollback should do the same trick though right?

 

[Atheus]

I'm going to watch the Barca Chelsea game and think about this. If I'm still stumped at the end of the football I'll reinstall the OS. Thanks again for your help everyone!

 

[MrWizzard]

Originally posted by: Atheus

Originally posted by: MrWizzard
LOL, well if it was me at this point I would start swapping out hardware, but I have enough spare parts to do that.

Yea I have way too much hardware too I could swap out for another vid card but I'm fairly sure the thing is physically fine. I take good care of it. Plus it runs Dead Space with no problems for example - a very demanding game.

You could try an OS re-install, but that is a lot of work. Do you have an extra hard drive that you can re-install to? That way if it does not work you can always just plop the current os reinstall back into the computer?

Most of my data is on seperate drives or on my servers so I can format the main drive without too much hassle. Really can't be bothered but that's probably what I'll end up doing.

Out of curiosity I forgot have you taken away your OC to see what happens?

No but I have run a load of stress tests like Prime, SuperPi, etc. It's stable. I'll do one more thing - run 3Dmark and see if the score is comparable to other 8800GTs. I'll watch the temps too I suppose it could be throttling or something. The thing is I actually reseated the vid card heatsink with some new Arctic Silver and cleaned all the dust off the fan a couple of weeks ago. Temps were great when I ran tests after that.

I have seen once instance where a video card was fine but one day it just started to bork in a computers PCI slot, other cards would work fine and the card that I thought was bad worked fine in another machine. If the OS re-install does nothing, then try the HW swaps.

It will probably end up being something silly that was overlooked....I have seen a game run slow because a USB printer was plugged into the computer.... figure that one out.

 

[soccerballtux]

Last suggestiong before reinstalling OS-- turn off desktop composition manually-- IE change your theme to Windows Classic.

 

[soccerballtux]

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[soccerballtux]

Looks like it's too late, bet he's gone and reformatted.