Hopefully there's help...

[Chilled]

I dont know if its possible to fix or if it is just because my computer is slow. The problem is that everytime that I try to play a game it enters the game and then it will lag/freeze every 30sec. to a minute and it is very frustrating, was wondering if it was something to do with my graphics card or some other piece of hardware but I used to be able to run the games fine without any freezing or lag at all. If there's help thank you if not then... well that sucks for me I guess :'(. Thanks for your help.

[Ned Seagoon]

Hi Chilled

Welcome to CTH.

So you could previously play this game on this same computer, without these problems?

What has changed? What else have you installed? Are you playing from the CD? Is it damaged? Have you tried cleaning up your HDD, (removing all temporary files), defragged the HDD?

Have you checked for viruses etc? Have you stopped unneeded applications from loading at startup?

Good luck. BF

[Chilled]

Hello, and thanks very much for the quick response. Yeah I've been able to previously play the same game(s) from the same computer. I know it cant be the disc's because some of the games that I play do not have a disc, its every game that I play has this same issue, There's not much that I have installed on my computer because I recently just reformatted my computer and partially the reason being that I figured this would rid me of the problem that I am having, once I reformatted I installed the game and I started to play and still the lag/freezing came. I ran Ad-Aware and removed all the spyware or adds that I had on my computer and still no luck. I'm not sure about defragging my HDD because im not so sure if I know what that is. I also tried stopping all of the unneccessary processes before I ran the game and that as well didnt work.

[Ned Seagoon]

OK, well defrag should be a start. What defrag does is to rearrange all the parts of a file that have got spread across the disk, so that they are next to each other. ie they can then be read faster.

Different operating systems have different ways of accessing defrag, try this:- open My Computer, right click on C: select properties, select tools, select defrag. Do this in turn to all hard drives. It will take a while to run.

Also when you reinstalled did you install the drivers for your motherboard, video card, etc?

Do you play your game off line? Do you have an up-to-date antivirus, and a firewall for when you go online? If not your computer may have been reinfected. Check the threads on spyware etc in that forum. BF