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Hi guys, anyone who knows me when I play on the XDC server will know I bitch like a mofo about my machine slowing down for around 20 seconds then going ok….Being a supposed MCSE myself I thought I should get round to fixing this prob. Basically I have tried re-installing but this has made sod all difference. I’ve hit a brick wall.
At the moment I’m think maybe GFX over-heating so I have been buying some Zalman stuff to cool that down, problem is…it does it during normal machine use not only when playing games.
Checked the hard drives,memory no probs found. No errors or anything in the event viewers, used I.P tune etc etc to try and speed things up, I’m hoping this IS a gfx problem. Any help would be appreciated.
Regards,
11thSignal.
p.s please help!!! it stops me whinging like a pussy everytime I play.
To see if it’s a network prob download ethereal. It’s a packet capture tool. Do the normal shit like defragging the hard disk, check pagefile vs memory installed (being an MCSE you should know the rule of thumb when it comes to pagefile sizes). There is a little tool in windows called perfmon.exe (performance monitor) Have a read up on how to use it and with it you can monitor disk performance, cpu, memory etc. I suggest reading up about it as it can be a pain in the ass getting the info you want.
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adding to hippy post, set a fixed paging file and see if it stops 🙂
About 1.5 times amount of your memory installed ie: 1024mb installed = at least 1536mb pagefile
I’ll give a proper perf monitor a go although it won’t be until tonight, the PF seems to be ok as I checked that when I did a exhustive test on the memory. Weird thing is is that it’s only just started doing it recently haven’t put anything on it. And it always seems to affect BF2 more than anything else although GUN gfx when entering towns takes a while when it didn’t used to. Humm anyway I’ll tel you the results at a later date. thanks for the recommendations.
p.s the mcse was in NT4 so I think it’s outta date by now..
I got 2 of em – not worth the paper thay’re written on – Gotta guy sits next to me at work and he has no qualifications what so ever and he can do the job of about 10 MCSE’s – Experience and Knowledge is what it’s about!
Happy to help wiv ya problem though mate – I know perfmon is a pain so ya may want to get a funky little proggie off the web to diagnose your issue
It sounds like something is waking up and grabbin your processor/hard disk periodically. Do you have a desktop search engine installed such as Google or Copernic? I have found Yahoo a particularly bad offender in causing periodic problems – shame, it was a good local search engine.
Disable any indexing services you have running.
Have a look at this thread. It’s more about ping spikes than what you talk about, but its a start.
http://forum.multiplayers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4521
Sorry – in a rush so this is a bit short. I’ll try and add more detail later.
Think everyone has raised valid comments
You’ve gotta run perfmon and capture a log whilst playing bf2, monitor standard stuff for processor, hdd, memory and monitor your processes as that’s most likely to tell you which app is causing you problems
If you say it happens during normal use, do you mean surfing the net and such. If so, run perfmon whilst this is happening, it’ll be easier as you can visually monitor this if you have only a few things being monitored
Overheating of graphics normally leads to weird displaying graphics so doesn’t sound like that is it though
Chances are it’s some spyware, or hw issue.Try this thread too:
I have a good point to make so don’t dismiss me as usual like you guys always do.
Had the same problem, PC would freeze up whilst playing BF2, seemed to be a ram issue.
Installed this little program called “Cacheman”, which as the name suggests, caches your ram at certain points and improves performance greatly.
Google cacheman and you’ll find a download link.
Here’s one: http://www.download.com/3000-2094-10018600.html
trouble is that app has been proven to release threads that are still needed, and more often that not will degrade performance or trip the odd blue screen.
XP releases RAM when it needs to, its just the odd rouge app that will leak memory and hog it all up, thats the only time that app will have an effect, cus its freeing up an app thats already faulty, so your not fixing anything, just working round it in the worst way possible.
tbh the common problem is the hard drive locking everything up when it extends the paging file to cope with things like BF2, its a simple thing to set a fixed paging file and only requires 1 reboot to complete.
well worth trying b4 u start trying to understand perf logs.
like hippy said, 1.5 times your physical ram.
if you have low ram you need to set an oversized fixed Pf to stop the PF operation mid game, the performance loss on desktop will not be noticed anyway, paging files there and its fixed, the whole point in a variable paging file is to give you more free disk space, something thats not really needed when you can buy 250gb drives under £50, it may sound good, but not when your about to cap a bloody flag and windows decides to add another half a gb of paging file here and there on the drive where it can fit it !
and it takes about 15-30 seconds on average to alter the paging file, roughly how long your lagging like a biatch 🙂
if your 1gb and under try a 2gb paging file to see if the problems stop.
I doubt it is extending the paging file, since once that is done it is done.
I.e. say Windows has made 1Gb page file by default. You run an app that requires more than this, so XP goes off and extends it. Typically it will add on a few hundred Mb extra, making it, say, 1.5Gb. This size is now there to stay – if you restart XP it will have a 1.5Gb page file – it is not dynamic each time you restart.
This behaviour answers Doc’s question as to why it is not done as standard. It grows automatically to a size that reflects the typical usage of the machine.
Hi guys thx for the advice. I’ve already tried the ram/pagefile issue but to no avail anyway I’ll crack on with it my cooling system is coming today so I will try that before I try anything, If that fails I will put the XP on my scsi chain instead of the sata and see if this helps with access.
Thanks anyway.
De-Winter
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