Computer Running a Bit slow.
Ok, fishing for some ideas here guys.
My primary gaming rig has been acting up lately. Mainly my load times seem to be much slower than they should be. This is most noticeable while playing UT2K4. I'll have almost identical settings between my two computers, and even though my primary rig is faster on all ends, it still will load slower. To make things worse, every once in awhile the game will just lock for 5 seconds, and then get back going again. I haven't been able to figure out what is going on at all so I want to see if you guys have some ideas in addition to mine.
1) My HD is hurting, or has been damaged somehow, I need a proggy to take a look at it, know any good ones?
2) I'm going to run a defrag right now to see if that clears some things up.
3) Memtest it tonight and see if I get any errors, figure it could be something in that realm.
4) That nForce2 IDE controller is actually slowing things down.
Thanks.
My primary gaming rig has been acting up lately. Mainly my load times seem to be much slower than they should be. This is most noticeable while playing UT2K4. I'll have almost identical settings between my two computers, and even though my primary rig is faster on all ends, it still will load slower. To make things worse, every once in awhile the game will just lock for 5 seconds, and then get back going again. I haven't been able to figure out what is going on at all so I want to see if you guys have some ideas in addition to mine.
1) My HD is hurting, or has been damaged somehow, I need a proggy to take a look at it, know any good ones?
2) I'm going to run a defrag right now to see if that clears some things up.
3) Memtest it tonight and see if I get any errors, figure it could be something in that realm.
4) That nForce2 IDE controller is actually slowing things down.
Thanks.
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If it makes you feel any better I found all Unreal games except the first UT reaaaaally bogged down on loading...
PPS is UT2K4 worth the money? UT was my favorite game for a while, so I am tempted to go for it, but I only have a P4 1.5, 512 MB SDRAM, 128MB Radeon 9200. Think my PC can keep up? Thanks in advance.
Everything is faster in the computer thats running slower, so I don't think thats the problem. It also doesn't have any virus scanner on it (I run it over the network). The defrag was needed badly, so we'll see if that helps. The memory in it has been kind of funny before though, and I'm wondering if it is slightly unstable, memtest tonight.
Pre-Cache is turned off too, and I'm not doing any overclocking on that system.
Ran powermax and so far no problems with the quick test, the long test is going as we speak.
I think UT2K4 is worth the money though, esp since its $40. Very fun, and even the single player can be entertaining.
~dodo
Did that and I have no spyware running, I'm always on top of that with scans every other day or so.