Re: Persistent CPU slowdowns during any gameplay

Hi Canarg,

Have you cleaned the fans since you reformatted a while ago?
If you want to investigate to see if it's a driver issue, the first
place to start would be with the video drivers. I'm certain that
you've had the opportunity to update them since the reformat.

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Canarg Wrote:
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| You know what, I would think it's an overheating problem. I've gotten a lot
| of responses like that, and its logical. When I touch the bottom of my
| computer the heat (in my estimation) is a little below the threshold of pain.
| (Sometime I should try to get the exact temperature).
|
| But here's why I don't think it's (just) the heat. A while ago, I
| reformatted and tried the games with nothing else on my computer (except what
| was preinstalled which excludes SP2 and Office), and there were no slowdowns
| at all. So I'm wondering if there's a driver or some software that is making
| my CPU work harder. . . But as I said, I have no spyware or viruses causing
| it.


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