Hey folks,
For the last couple of months I've been rebuilding my desktop (adding new hard drives, psu, and case) and have reinstalled everything from scratch since last summer. But I've been getting video stalling every few seconds while playing games (Unreal, Quake III, SNES roms), watching DivX, watching DVD, even scrolling through documents and windows! If a large portion of the screen is moving, I'm getting a stall.
Different programs seem to react differently. For example, in my DVD player, the audio continues and when the video is done stalling, it just skips ahead to where the audio had gotten. Whereas in my roms, the audio stops and waits for the video before continuing.
I've got a 1.4 GHz AMD Athlon T-bird on an ASUS A7M-266 mobo. My sound card is a Santa Cruz and my video card is an ATI Radeon 7500. I've got 512 MB ram. I've been running this system for three full years now and have gone through a video card, but never had this problem before. I used to play Quake III and Unreal without problem, and was usually rather impressed with its performance.
My friend suggested it was adware/spyware that was slowing my system, although I've been running Adaware every few days.
Does anyone have any ideas? Do you think it's hardware? Maybe there is a setting that I should change in the OS/Video card that I haven't thought of since I reinstalled my OS last summer... Thanks
For the last couple of months I've been rebuilding my desktop (adding new hard drives, psu, and case) and have reinstalled everything from scratch since last summer. But I've been getting video stalling every few seconds while playing games (Unreal, Quake III, SNES roms), watching DivX, watching DVD, even scrolling through documents and windows! If a large portion of the screen is moving, I'm getting a stall.
Different programs seem to react differently. For example, in my DVD player, the audio continues and when the video is done stalling, it just skips ahead to where the audio had gotten. Whereas in my roms, the audio stops and waits for the video before continuing.
I've got a 1.4 GHz AMD Athlon T-bird on an ASUS A7M-266 mobo. My sound card is a Santa Cruz and my video card is an ATI Radeon 7500. I've got 512 MB ram. I've been running this system for three full years now and have gone through a video card, but never had this problem before. I used to play Quake III and Unreal without problem, and was usually rather impressed with its performance.
My friend suggested it was adware/spyware that was slowing my system, although I've been running Adaware every few days.
Does anyone have any ideas? Do you think it's hardware? Maybe there is a setting that I should change in the OS/Video card that I haven't thought of since I reinstalled my OS last summer... Thanks
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