Lag?

[I)eadnerzhul]

Hello guys! Well, turns out my motherboard had a burn on it (which was causing the crashes... GOSH). Well, I got a new one. It was messed up. I downloaded/installed EVERY DRIVER I WAS TOLD TO. And still... I get lag whenever I play a game. ANY game. Even if it's WARCRAFT! This is really ticking me off. I actually thought I fixed the problem before (I installed a special driver and was able to play a flash game with no lag!), but when I played Warcraft III, there was a lag that occurred every few seconds! GOSH!

 

[GoSu.SpeeD]

it could be a problem with your graphics card, depending on how long you've had it for.

 

[Eleandor]

Try playing in windowed mode with task manager turned on, monitor your cpu and memory usage (as well as paging files) and see if anything goes wrong there. I recently *pimped* my old pc by doubling the paging memory, it helped a lot. If nothing of that causes the problem, it's probably your videocard...

 

[Steel_Stallion]

Are you sure you bought a compatible mother board? And yes, make sure all the drivers are up to date.

 

[I)eadnerzhul]

I probably didn't, and it's probably the motherboard. It worked fine before it. I'm going to get it replaced tomorrow.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Make sure you have a graphic driver installed. Also saying what your other specs are may be useful.

 

[I)eadnerzhul]

Took it to a technician and he fixed it- the problem was the CPU. It was TOTALLY fried! He gave me a cooler CPU (AMD 5200 as opposed to 6600) so now it's all good. And yeah- the graphics driver was installed for a while.

 

[The_wand_mirror]

lol always be sure your hardware is equal?

 

[I)eadnerzhul]

The system overheated and a fuse blew, causing burns on my Motherboard and CPU.

 

[Dr Super Good]

It should have crashed instead of running slowly. Atleast that is what happens with my PCs when any component takes damage.

 

[I)eadnerzhul]

When I replaced the motherboard, it stopped crashing. When I replaced the CPU, it stopped malfunctioning completely.