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New system - Games broken?

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Moriar

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I just bought a new system:

Motherboard: DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D Socket 939
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Manchester 1GHz FSB SOckeck 939 Dual Core
Power Supply: Antec TruePower 2.0 TP2-550 550W
Video Card: connect3D Radeon X800XL 256mb PCI Express x16
RAM: pqi TURBO 2GB (2 x 1gb) 184-pin ddr ram (pc 3200)
Sound Card: Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Value
Harddrive: Seagate Barracuda 7200 160gb
Case: COOLER MASTER Centurion 5
OS: Windows XP Professional

Everything is working fine except for games. When I play, everything is faster than normal for a random amount of time (5-20 seconds), then I will just lag for a second (my screen freezes basically). I'm pretty sure it's not my internet since I still have my old computer hooked up and it runs the same games fine. Could anyone help me fix this problem? Thanks.
 
What games? Explain what you mean by "faster than normal" - are framerates just faster than they were on your old system (which they should be, of course), or is it the actual pace of the game, where things are happening faster than they should be? When it starts slowing down/freezing the screen, does it recover after a few moments of this and run smoothly again, or is the system hard-locked and you have to reboot to get out of it?

More specifics are always good when asking for help. That way we can tell where to start looking for a problem.
 
Sorry. The games is Day of Defeat (Counter Strike does it as well). I run and shoot faster than normal, then I freeze for about a second and continue on with running and shooting faster than normal.
 
omg speed hax0r!!!11 d3i!!


....but in all seriousness; that is quite odd. Have you downloaded the latest drivers for all your hardware?
 
Tough problem, it could be so many things. Can your game(s) display the fps (frames per second) in realtime as your playing? I'd like to know if the fps is dipping. Does it do it for single player games as well? (Need to eliminate connection issues)
 
that sounds a lot like lag to me... if they are both connected, is this one behind a router that is causing problems? I had issues with games not booting at all on my new computer which is built similarly to yours. The problem was fixed when I went into start - run - msconfig - services - hide all microsoft - then disabled other services. Also used selective startup, unchecking everthing but 'load system services,' under the general tab, but that didn't seem to affect anything when I ran different tests.
 
BadThad - My FPS is 90 constant (I use fps_max 90). It also does it on Condition Zero (single player mode), but I don't get the "lag". I just move super fast.

etherealgrifter - Thanks, I tried it, but I don't think it worked. 🙁
 
Originally posted by: Moriar
BadThad - My FPS is 90 constant (I use fps_max 90). It also does it on Condition Zero (single player mode), but I don't get the "lag". I just move super fast.

etherealgrifter - Thanks, I tried it, but I don't think it worked. 🙁
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Well, then the "lag" is simply online net lag, nothing you can do about that except to find a lower pinging server to frag on. As far as moving "super fast", LOL, I'm afraid I just don't understand that since nothing hardware/software related would cause that....and I'm an avid gamer. Maybe it just seems "fast" since you have a better PC now?

 
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