Slow performance with games

[dweep]

if i remember correctly this is normal for windows.
perhaps you should test with some benchmark tools to see if performance for each subsystem is in the expected range.

this is definitely a time consuming approach but you should be able to track down, which subsystem of the pc is responsible for the bad performance.

so benchmarks for
- cpu
- memory subsystem
- harddisk
- gpu

could be tested seperately.
As to where to get those benchmark tools i don't really have an answer. i do most things under linux...
anyway you need some reference benchmarks to see if you get "normal" performance or not.
on http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu.html you can get data for cpu , elsewhere on the site gpu. They should have also links to the benchmarks they used.

ah, and did you try and check the bios settings for memory speed. there should be something like "auto". perhaps even try to reset bios to defaults? (second opinions anyone) which at least shouldn't be completly bad.

i hope that helps

[Urmel]

disable system recovery on all drives

[GreEn`mArine]

could you test your voltages again ? Since you've got a new PSU they should be normal again. And as already mentioned, try to get a program that can present results separately for cpu and gpu

[old_codger]

hello again..got a psu ,games stil run slow but the main problem i think is what is causing the games to be slow might be this: please help me out with this..

i open a window of any app say-explorer,firefox,notepad etc any application..
when i hold the mouse on the applications window and move the applications window around on my screen,the cpu usage jumps to 100% and stays there...then i stop it moving it around the cpu usage drops to normal...this is wierd because it is only like 2d...so my 3d games obviously are running slow because of this ''bug'' or whatever i have...i have scanned for everything using every utility for viruses,malware,spyware etc..installed windows,,latest drivers...what do i do ...once i solve this issue games should/will run swiftly...
PLEASE HELP ME IN ANY WAY YOU CAN...

thankyou very much ='(

Almost certainly this is absolutely nothing to do with your psu or any other piece of hardware. Almost certainly the problem is your operating system or, rather, some driver or other that's buggered up. You can't rely on the cpu usage thingie in windows. It doesn't provide enough information.

Download a copy of procexp from http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/P ... lorer.html and have a look at what's doing what. You'll probably have to trawl around the internet for a while once if you find anything that's eating your processor time. Don't forget that if you HAVE got a virus, worm, whatever, it will nobble your anti-virus before it does anything else so you can't rely on that anyway.

There's a load of other interesting stuff at the sysinternals website and it's the sort of software I like... FREE!!!

I notice you've got bad sectors on your hard disk. That's pretty unusual for modern drives and it might be that the controller is having problems 'paging' data onto disk during normal operation. This will slow it down drastically. Might be a squiffy controller but, again, that's unlikely.

Have you got another hard disk you could try in the machine. It only need be 4Gb for testing purposes just to put XP and the drivers on it.

Alternatively I'd download a copy of GParted or similar and divide one of your hard disk into 2 partitions. I haven't used GP'ed for a while and I can't remember if it also handles boot menus but there are other things out there as boot managers such as OSL2000. They can all be downloaded from http://www.download.com

However. beware!!! Once installed you have to know how to reinstall your master boot record, (MBR), after you put your partition back to it's original size and take them off again. Actually, it's pretty simple. Have a look at the MS website... that'll tell you how to do it but you'll need the administrator password so make sure you've got that before starting anything. Also have a look at this article if you have any problems:-

http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... -US;308402

Ah, the joys of Microsoft, eh! LOL

Assuming you've got the admin password, (and you can try this BEFORE you do anything, don't forget), and are sure you're comfortable with partitioning software then an extra partition of about 2-3Gb ought to do it for these purposes. Install windows onto the second partition and load the drivers from the original disks and see what happens when moving a screen around then.

Regarding the drive... Frankly, in my experience 200 watts is sufficient to run two drives where most of the load will be used during the start-up and, in any case, you've already changed that so that can't be the problem.

[old_codger]

perhaps even try to reset bios to defaults? (second opinions anyone) which at least shouldn't be completly bad.

Some motherboards default to lower speeds for the cpu speed so it might reduce his cpu to a core speed 30+% slower than it can actually handle. Should work but, like I say above, I doubt it's a hardware problem anyway.

[tZork]

hello again..got a psu ,games stil run slow but the main problem i think is what is causing the games to be slow might be this: please help me out with this..


i open a window of any app say-explorer,firefox,notepad etc any application..
when i hold the mouse on the applications window and move the applications window around on my screen,the cpu usage jumps to 100% and stays there...then i stop it moving it around the cpu usage drops to normal...this is wierd because it is only like 2d...so my 3d games obviously are running slow because of this ''bug'' or whatever i have...i have scanned for everything using every utility for viruses,malware,spyware etc..installed windows,,latest drivers...what do i do ...once i solve this issue games should/will run swiftly...
PLEASE HELP ME IN ANY WAY YOU CAN...

thankyou very much ='(

Ok first of all, how do you define "bad preformace" ? try enablening the fps display in nexuiz (effects menu) and see what it says. Secondly, moving a window should not require 100% cpu load, theres something strange abt that (my cpu load goes to abt 10% from moving a window), what OS?

Another thing to try is a clean install of everything, if you have a spare hdd to try that on or feel confy formating your current one. just make sure you have all drivers needed to get the system running on a cd before you start.

[Urmel]

Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\cmaudio.sys (5.12.01.0639, 370.83 KB (379,726 bytes), 25/06/2006 8:51 PM)

Should answer one of yours quiestions

[old_codger]

Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\cmaudio.sys (5.12.01.0639, 370.83 KB (379,726 bytes), 25/06/2006 8:51 PM)

Should answer one of yours quiestions

Is there some particular problem with the cmaudio driver?

[Urmel]

Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\cmaudio.sys (5.12.01.0639, 370.83 KB (379,726 bytes), 25/06/2006 8:51 PM)

Should answer one of yours quiestions

Is there some particular problem with the cmaudio driver?

nope. just wanted to show up which OS phil55au uses.