Geosurface
Diamond Member
So for a while now I've been having this issue, or maybe it's a group of issues.
Let me see if I can name everything that seems to be roughly related.
I think the first thing was Firefox's flash plugin crashing and stalling up a lot, so I switched to Chrome. Now it seems like I'm getting some Chrome flash crashes, in fact I definitely am, that is really recent. Doesn't seem to be as epidemic as Firefox's were. This may or may not be tied to some of the other stuff.
I've been having an issue where sometimes my net will seem to get really sluggish, but it doesn't actually go down or anything... but a webpage might just take an unusual period of time to load, or not load at all, return a 404 or something but my net never went all the way down. This has happened a lot, over the last 2 months or so maybe, it's like the net will get sluggish for a bit, but then recover, during it I usually can't load any sites, etc.
Now a new thing is, in Chrome the little url and name that you'll see pop up on the screen in a little box when you mouse over one of your quick links on your favorites bar, will stick.
So, I'll see the little box with
Floating over top of whatever webpage I'm using, and it won't go away until I minimize Chrome and maximize it again. In the past I've seen this happen such that it'd be there throughout all of Windows 7 no matter what I did, until reboot, but this just seems to be isolated to Chrome. Rebooting clears it up for a while but it seems to be coming back a lot.
There may be a connection to uTorrent, which when closed I think has sometimes helped some of this behavior clear up...
When I first switched to Chrome, Chrome refused to even load up. I had to do some little trickery for Chrome to even load. Nothing whatsoever would happen when I first would click the icon for it. Dunno if that could be related.
Weird behavior in VLC also, where I will sometimes lose the ability to even click on anything. It could range from having to resort to right click on the video and use the menu that pops up, because none of the buttons down below the video will be responsive, or also I've seen where none of the over top main menus will open at all. Or some will, but some won't.
The other thing that's happened is my main Windows 7 bar, down at the bottom of the screen, THOSE icons have become unclickable lately a few times. Doing ctrl-alt-del opening task manager, then closing it, seems to clear this up.
I do not know how many of these issues are related.
I have had a few hard crashes lately due to Torchlight 2 causing them whenever I'd try to load it, found out EVGA 570 cards specifically were related to this, lucky me. Am going to run chkdsk /r next reboot to see if those were harmful. I was able to get it running by, and ONLY by, using this EVGA program which allows me to down clock the card a bit.
Intel Core i5-2500k CPU @ 3.30GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.3GHz
12288MB RAM
Directx 11
EVGA Nvidia GeForce GTX 570 1280MB
Windows 7 64 Bit
Main HD with Windows = 80GB Intel SSD
Let me see if I can name everything that seems to be roughly related.
I think the first thing was Firefox's flash plugin crashing and stalling up a lot, so I switched to Chrome. Now it seems like I'm getting some Chrome flash crashes, in fact I definitely am, that is really recent. Doesn't seem to be as epidemic as Firefox's were. This may or may not be tied to some of the other stuff.
I've been having an issue where sometimes my net will seem to get really sluggish, but it doesn't actually go down or anything... but a webpage might just take an unusual period of time to load, or not load at all, return a 404 or something but my net never went all the way down. This has happened a lot, over the last 2 months or so maybe, it's like the net will get sluggish for a bit, but then recover, during it I usually can't load any sites, etc.
Now a new thing is, in Chrome the little url and name that you'll see pop up on the screen in a little box when you mouse over one of your quick links on your favorites bar, will stick.
So, I'll see the little box with
Floating over top of whatever webpage I'm using, and it won't go away until I minimize Chrome and maximize it again. In the past I've seen this happen such that it'd be there throughout all of Windows 7 no matter what I did, until reboot, but this just seems to be isolated to Chrome. Rebooting clears it up for a while but it seems to be coming back a lot.
There may be a connection to uTorrent, which when closed I think has sometimes helped some of this behavior clear up...
When I first switched to Chrome, Chrome refused to even load up. I had to do some little trickery for Chrome to even load. Nothing whatsoever would happen when I first would click the icon for it. Dunno if that could be related.
Weird behavior in VLC also, where I will sometimes lose the ability to even click on anything. It could range from having to resort to right click on the video and use the menu that pops up, because none of the buttons down below the video will be responsive, or also I've seen where none of the over top main menus will open at all. Or some will, but some won't.
The other thing that's happened is my main Windows 7 bar, down at the bottom of the screen, THOSE icons have become unclickable lately a few times. Doing ctrl-alt-del opening task manager, then closing it, seems to clear this up.
I do not know how many of these issues are related.
I have had a few hard crashes lately due to Torchlight 2 causing them whenever I'd try to load it, found out EVGA 570 cards specifically were related to this, lucky me. Am going to run chkdsk /r next reboot to see if those were harmful. I was able to get it running by, and ONLY by, using this EVGA program which allows me to down clock the card a bit.
Intel Core i5-2500k CPU @ 3.30GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.3GHz
12288MB RAM
Directx 11
EVGA Nvidia GeForce GTX 570 1280MB
Windows 7 64 Bit
Main HD with Windows = 80GB Intel SSD
