Graphics Issue

[mpearl6]

Hey,

Weird problem here, have been able to play games (mainly Pro Evolution 6 and NBA Live 2007) fine since getting my laptop, but recently I've been having stuttering issues. Basically what happens is every few minutes the game slows down to a crawl and the game basically becomes unplayable. It then corrects itself and runs smoothly again for a couple of minutes.

I am running with a crappy integrated ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 card, but like I say I've been able to play these games perfectly for many months. It seems as though something is trying to access something on the computer every few minutes, but for the life of me I can't figure out what it is. I have 1GB of RAM and under the Performance tag, there's always 550mb free.

I have included a HiJack This log, to see if anything can be found in it. I have done numerous defrags of the hard drive, run spyware and adware checks as well as malware, but the problem won't go away.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks a lot

Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.0 (BETA)
Scan saved at 17:10:58, on 6/10/2007
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
Boot mode: Normal

Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVGFRE~1\avgamsvr.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVGFRE~1\avgupsvc.exe
C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\Program Files\Google\Gmail Notifier\gnotify.exe
C:\Program Files\a-squared Free\a2service.exe
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
C:\Documents and Settings\Mark\Desktop\HiJackThis_v2.exe

R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Local Page =
R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Local Page =
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [MSConfig] C:\WINDOWS\PCHealth\HelpCtr\Binaries\MSConfig.exe /auto
O4 - HKUS\S-1-5-18\..\Run: [AVG7_Run] C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVGFRE~1\avgw.exe /RUNONCE (User 'SYSTEM')
O4 - HKUS\.DEFAULT\..\Run: [AVG7_Run] C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVGFRE~1\avgw.exe /RUNONCE (User 'Default user')
O23 - Service: a-squared Free Service (a2free) - Emsi Software GmbH - C:\Program Files\a-squared Free\a2service.exe
O23 - Service: AVG7 Alert Manager Server (Avg7Alrt) - GRISOFT, s.r.o. - C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVGFRE~1\avgamsvr.exe
O23 - Service: AVG7 Update Service (Avg7UpdSvc) - GRISOFT, s.r.o. - C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVGFRE~1\avgupsvc.exe

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