Need help with warping

[ManweSulimo442]

Every time I play a game I warp in it, i'll freeze and then 2 secs later i'll unfreeze, this happens every 5 secs about. My internet wouldn't connect one day so I called Roadrunner internet support(Bad idea..), He had me delete something in my registry so it would rebuild itself and then I could connect to internet. But now whenever I enter a game I warp all the time, I've tried everything other than reformating..Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have a dell, 1.79 Ghz pentium 4 processor, 768 Mb of ram and I got it last year so its relativly new. I have the Onboard Plug and Play video card, which has never failed me before. This problem started occuring after I got my internet problem fixed and i've tried restoring the registry to its old way but even then it wouldn't work. I've ran ad-aware, defragged twice, reg clean and a few others with no result...

 

[nater]

what do you mean by warp? What game are you playing?

 

[ManweSulimo442]

Warping..its like I will freeze and then 2 secs later i'm unfrozen with the last command I did still going on but all I see is me frozen. Its on all games single player or multiplayer. I've played Dod,cs, Jedi academy, kotor, ut, starcraft all of them warp.

 

[Delorian]

Originally posted by: nater
what do you mean by warp? What game are you playing?

Yes, I am still unclear what you mean. Is it just a "freezing" time delay? If so this is called 'lag' while playing over the internet and is very common with a slower 56k connection to a high-latency server. If this is during single player, then you are experiencing a bottle neck in your system or are just not meeting the system requirements of the game.

 

[ManweSulimo442]

I have a cable connection and it was working fine for the entire year before..Its not my connection or my computer because both are great and the games are low resource. It happened after I contacted my isp and he had me do a few things.

 

[Delorian]

Try to rollback settings (if you are using XP), if that doesn't work, reinstall your graphics drivers, if not either of those, try the repair option on your OS install CD. Then if all else fails, reinstall your OS using a fresh clean partition to install onto.

 

[Mnementh]

Sounds like your HDD is running in PIO mode instead of DMA. You can check this by looking at the properties for the primary/secondary IDE channel under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers in device manager.

If your HDD is running in PIO mode then you need to remove the controller and reboot the system. Windows will then redetect the controller and should put your hdd back to dma mode.

If your hdd is already running in DMA mode then... well... it's something else....

Mnementh