Laggy/Bad Video Performance? Or what..

[livejamie]

Hello, my name is Jamie. I'm a casual gamer who enjoys playing MMORPGs like Cabal Online, Silkroad, and am looking forward to playing Aion.

I also like to play older FPS games like TF2, Quake III, Unreal, etc.

Lately I've been having a problem with any game that I play, my system will randomly freeze for about 15 seconds, usually looping what's going on sound-wise at the time.

Like if somebody's talking on vent they can be saying a sentance like "Today I had a nice day, I went to the grocery store."

But in the moment my computer is frozen I hear "Today I had a, Today I had a, Today I had a, Today I had a, Today I had a" for 15 seconds, then I'll hear the rest of the conversation that occured in that 15 seconds all at once.

I'm running XP on an Athlon64 2.2GHz, I have a Soundblaster X-fi Xtrememusic card and a 256mb GeForce 7600GT running at 1600x1200.

My DxDiag can be found here: http://pastie.org/513560

Is the problem I'm running into a result of my Video Card? What's going on?

I'm not looking to play Crysis or anything, but I'd like to be able to play my games at full settings without lag.

Thank you so much for reading this.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Have you checked the temps on your card and processor? Tried updating any of your drivers? What happened right before this started happening? Windows updates/software updates/hardware change etc? This is the kind of info we need to help diagnose the issue.

And welcome to Anandtech!

 

[mpilchfamily]

I suggest updating the video card drivers. I've had this problem in the past and a driver update fixed it.

 

[Rottie]

before you update the driver always clean/remove drivers before installing latest version of GPU drivers.

 

[Sam25]

Yup, update the video card drivers.

 

[Porter21]

It could be the video drivers, but I have had this happen due to heat. Check the temps of you're CPU and possibly your video card if you can. If you haven't made any driver changes recently, it seems as though heat could be the problem.