My computer is dying

2007-11-26 12:33:00

#1

aimless: Member; +166|6602|Texas

About a month ago, I could benchmark call of duty (just for reference) at about 100 fps. A few days later, my version of windows became corrupt. I went through many solutions to fix it and ended up buying a new hard drive, so I could still keep my old data. I upgraded to XP Pro from Home with my new hard drive.

FF to today, I can barely benchmark call of duty above 69 fps, I have turned down ALL of my graphics settings, reduced to one monitor. I only have my new hard drive in. I have all of my drivers updated, video card/mobo/etc. I've run EndItAll, CCleaner, Ad-Aware, Spybot, and done a full Virus scan only to come up with nothing.

I do not believe it could be my hard drive slowing me down because it is the same speep (rpm).

My Setup:
- AMD Athlon XP 3000+ @ 2.17 GHz
- FIC Au31 Motherboard (ie. MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum)
- Infineon PC3200/2700 512mb RAM (I know speeds do not match, but this is not the cause, its been this way forever)
- ATI Radeon 9600XT w/Atlantis
- Western Digital Caviar PATA 120GB 7200 RPM
- Windows XP Pro SP2
- Catalyst 7.10 Video Drivers

Besides the obvious fact that my computer is OLD and it needs an UPGRADE (feel free to donate money) is there anything else I could try to get my computer back to the speed it used to have?

2007-11-26 12:36:16

#2

Mitch92uK: aka [DBS]Mitch92uK; +192|6712|United Kingdom

Degragment your hd?

2007-11-26 12:44:17

#3

InnerMonkey: Member; +62|7196

Random thoughts:

Did you maybe change video drivers during the rebuild? Do you perhaps have Vertical Sync enabled (worth checking if you don't know for sure)?
Do you have any memory resident programs (AV, spyware blocker etc) configured differently than before?

It's not drive speed. That might change load times, but not frame rates during game play.

Last edited by InnerMonkey (2007-11-26 12:46:21)

2007-11-26 12:49:47

#4

aimless: Member; +166|6602|Texas

mitch212k_2 wrote:
Degragment your hd?

- Oh yeah, will try.

InnerMonkey wrote:
Did you maybe change video drivers during the rebuild?

- No, still have Catalyst 7.10s

InnerMonkey wrote:
Do you perhaps have Vertical Sync enabled?

- It's not that, I leave that off in all my games.

InnerMonkey wrote:
Do you have any memory resident programs (AV, spyware blocker etc) configured differently than before?

- I don't believe so. The only thing changed would be the drives they are scanning.

2007-11-26 12:52:02

#5

The_Sniper_NM: Official EVGA Fanboy; +94|6591|SC | USA |

May be the hard drives haves something to do with it? What are the specs of both?

Only thing I could think of.

2007-11-26 13:20:14

#6

ig: This topic seems to have no actual posts; +1,199|6999

you should be happy with 70 fps with that rig

2007-11-26 13:53:00

#7

aimless: Member; +166|6602|Texas

The_Sniper_NM wrote:
May be the hard drives haves something to do with it? What are the specs of both?

- All i know is that the first one was an IDE 160GB 7200 RMP Maxtor, the new one is a PATA(IDE) 120GB 7200 RMP WD Caviar. I will try and find more detailed specs about them later.

ig wrote:
you should be happy with 70 fps with that rig

- It's 70fps in call of duty, a palm pilot could play that game I used to be able to hit 125 fps constant in regular gameplay.

Last edited by aimless (2007-11-26 13:53:29)

2007-11-26 13:56:12

#8

Catbox: forgiveness; +505|7193

backup important files... and reformat... Windows xp gets cluttered... and you can always defragment... and run crap cleaner...

Love is the answer

2007-11-26 13:57:06

#9

aimless: Member; +166|6602|Texas

[TUF]Catbox wrote:
backup important files... and reformat... Windows xp gets cluttered... and you can always defragment... and run crap cleaner...

- This hard drive is brand new!

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