I recently did a complete format and restore of my 4 year-old pc (been about a year and a half since I did it last) and for some reason certain games, Call of Duty 2 (not Call of Duty 1 but the expansion pack for it - United Offensive - also takes ridiculously long, each level almost three minutes!) and also Doom 3 and D3 Resurrection of Evil.
I should note that none of these games took very long to load at all on my pc before this...
I have all the latest drivers for everything - my vid. card is a ati 1900xtx w 512mb of onboard ram.
I have 2BG of DDR and a 180 GB seagate sata drive 7200 rpm. My HT CPU is 3.2.
Games that are fine are HL2, HL2: Episode One, Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault & Oblivion.
Oblivion, I think, is the most graphically demanding and biggest CPU hog so I don't think it's a question of most system intensive game since Oblivion runs fine.
One thing I didn't have before were all the MS Critical Updates - yeah, like an idiot I grabbed all of them thinking it was the best thing to do...but that is the only difference in my system between before the restore and after.
I ran Memtest to see if my memory was screwy but it didn't find any errors after a twelve hour run...
Did I overlook anything? Or does anyone have any idea what might have happened? Any assistance would be deeply appreciated.
Thanks in advance...!
I should note that none of these games took very long to load at all on my pc before this...
I have all the latest drivers for everything - my vid. card is a ati 1900xtx w 512mb of onboard ram.
I have 2BG of DDR and a 180 GB seagate sata drive 7200 rpm. My HT CPU is 3.2.
Games that are fine are HL2, HL2: Episode One, Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault & Oblivion.
Oblivion, I think, is the most graphically demanding and biggest CPU hog so I don't think it's a question of most system intensive game since Oblivion runs fine.
One thing I didn't have before were all the MS Critical Updates - yeah, like an idiot I grabbed all of them thinking it was the best thing to do...but that is the only difference in my system between before the restore and after.
I ran Memtest to see if my memory was screwy but it didn't find any errors after a twelve hour run...
Did I overlook anything? Or does anyone have any idea what might have happened? Any assistance would be deeply appreciated.
Thanks in advance...!
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