progressive laggyness?

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-Dark-Angel-

Veteran XV

• Dec 8, 2003

• #1

Over the past month or so my computer has become progressivly choppy or laggy or whatever you want to call it.

Like for example when i move my mouse accross the desktop it will stop for a split second then continue to move again.. The ammount of times it stops is whats becomming progressive. before it would happen maybe.. once every so often.. now it happens like 2 out of 5 times. This also effects games, music, movies ect..

I've run virus scanners, i've defragged, i've run scandisk and i've run both spybot and adaware but i cant find any reason for the slow choppyness my computer is seems to be suffering from.

any ideas?

 

Last edited: Dec 8, 2003

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Krobar

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Veteran XX

• Dec 8, 2003

• #2

next time it's doing it ctrl-alt-del and see what processes are running, also, what OS, ram, chip, mobo, etc...how much of a paging file/virtual memory do you have?

 

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-Dark-Angel-

Veteran XV

• Dec 9, 2003

• #3

umm.. there's no way i can decipher whats running in task manager.

OS: XP Pro
CPU: AMD Athlon 2200+
Mobo: Asus A7N8X
RAM: 512MB RAM
Page File: 274MB used, 976MB available
Video: NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4800
Sound: SB Live!

 

Data

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Veteran XX

• Dec 9, 2003

• #4

I don't suppose it's an optical and/or wireless mouse...

 

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Krobar

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Veteran XX

• Dec 9, 2003

• #5

no, I meant see if any process is using a high percentage of cpu time...

 

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-Dark-Angel-

Veteran XV

• Dec 9, 2003

• #6

no its not an optical mouse.. but its not just the mouse.. its everything.

 

Data

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Veteran XX

• Dec 9, 2003

• #7

Then take a screen shot of your process list and post it here.

Like that. Sort by Mem Usage.

 

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-Dark-Angel-

Veteran XV

• Dec 9, 2003

• #8

 

Data

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Veteran XX

• Dec 9, 2003

• #9

That's nothing unusual.

Is the "laggyness" happening right now?

 

Data

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Veteran XX

• Dec 9, 2003

• #10

What 16-bit apps are you running that require NTVDM and WOWEXEC?

 

Data

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Veteran XX

• Dec 9, 2003

• #11

You can check your processes against this list.
http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/

Almost every one in your screenshot is in there, with a short explanation of what it is/does.

This one about TGCMD.EXE is interesting.
http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/tgcmd/

 

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-Dark-Angel-

Veteran XV

• Dec 9, 2003

• #12

Data said:

What 16-bit apps are you running that require NTVDM and WOWEXEC?

Click to expand...

i have no idea what NTVDM and WOWEXEC are..

but umm.. no it doesnt seem to be happening right now.. it hits for like a second and goes away..

some examples:

Games: In Tribes i try to turn shoot ect.. and it gets choppy for like .5 seconds (enough to fuck up a shot or get killed)

in Gunbound when i use my power slider it might go full power when im not trying to use full power..

in RTCW same as tribes.

Music: Song plays and seems to skip for a sec.

Video: video skips and sometimes throws off the synch.

its really a subtle skip or whatever but its noticable.. and highly annoying after a while.

 

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-Dark-Angel-

Veteran XV

• Dec 9, 2003

• #13

alright.. i'll kill whatever i can.. thnx data.

 

Data

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Veteran XX

• Dec 9, 2003

• #14

You're not going to nail down something that random so easily. Frankly, unless you get really lucky, you may never find it.

Start with drivers and processes and work from there.

 

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Gil

Veteran XV

• Dec 10, 2003

• #15

You'll prolly replace some component some day or remove a program, and discover that it stops doing it.

 

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Ash_Parnal

Veteran XX

• Dec 11, 2003

• #16

.01 on SbLive! and Dx9.0+..

 

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Gil

Veteran XV

• Dec 11, 2003

• #17

o yea...the sblive drivers are ass.

There was one set I found, released by compaq that made them work ok and never errored. All the ones creative put out sucked.