In the past week I have noticed a few of my newer games becoming extremely slow and choppy after a few minutes (or less) of playtime.
Showed up first with neverwinter nights, my character would run around for 10 seconds tops before my system would completely bog down giving me a slideshow at best, system lockup at worst.
Today I tried to fire up the Guild Wars beta and as soon as i logged in, my cpu went to full load with no depreciation even after leaving it sit for 10 minutes (i thought maybe it was still loading stuff from the servers)
Even Rise of Nations started to do similar things to me after a fresh install this afternoon. I could get 10-20 minutes of clean playtime then it would lock up for a short time then continue on, eventually with such short intervals between lockups that it became unplayable and took me 5 minutes simply to quit the game.
each time music continues to play, if i have winamp going in the background for example the music on winamp will continue to play (never had a problem running winamp in the background before and just to make sure i have tried each of these games w/ nothing running except the game itself, no change). in each game the menu never gives me a problem, it is only once i am into the game itself, the 3d rendered portion, that gives me problems. i updated my video drivers to no avail (not that i suspect a driver issue as neverwinter nights has now been working A-OK for months on end w/out a hitch, and the game itself hasnt had an update for a month or so now). as for other programs/etc that may have been installed lately... the only driver type thing i installed was a video codec that i uninstalled and still had the same problem with.
so any possibilities? i fear a complete reinstall of windows (running win2k pro) as i have a ton of stuff i would have to backup that i dont want to/dont have room to at the moment and i believe my system disc is corrupt anyways
unfortunatly thats the only thing i can think of since my hardware hasnt had a problem w/ neverwinter nights in months.
thanks for any help/ideas
Showed up first with neverwinter nights, my character would run around for 10 seconds tops before my system would completely bog down giving me a slideshow at best, system lockup at worst.
Today I tried to fire up the Guild Wars beta and as soon as i logged in, my cpu went to full load with no depreciation even after leaving it sit for 10 minutes (i thought maybe it was still loading stuff from the servers)
Even Rise of Nations started to do similar things to me after a fresh install this afternoon. I could get 10-20 minutes of clean playtime then it would lock up for a short time then continue on, eventually with such short intervals between lockups that it became unplayable and took me 5 minutes simply to quit the game.
each time music continues to play, if i have winamp going in the background for example the music on winamp will continue to play (never had a problem running winamp in the background before and just to make sure i have tried each of these games w/ nothing running except the game itself, no change). in each game the menu never gives me a problem, it is only once i am into the game itself, the 3d rendered portion, that gives me problems. i updated my video drivers to no avail (not that i suspect a driver issue as neverwinter nights has now been working A-OK for months on end w/out a hitch, and the game itself hasnt had an update for a month or so now). as for other programs/etc that may have been installed lately... the only driver type thing i installed was a video codec that i uninstalled and still had the same problem with.
so any possibilities? i fear a complete reinstall of windows (running win2k pro) as i have a ton of stuff i would have to backup that i dont want to/dont have room to at the moment and i believe my system disc is corrupt anyways
unfortunatly thats the only thing i can think of since my hardware hasnt had a problem w/ neverwinter nights in months.thanks for any help/ideas
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