Just how fast should this computer be?

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Pyrox920

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Okay, to start, ill give my system specs (it's old, I know):

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Pentium 4 2.0 Ghz processor

ATI radeon x700 pro

hds722525vlat80 | 233 total giga-bytes, 299 giga-bytes free

768 MB of ram

Windows XP home edition

Samsung SD-612 DVD-ROM

(Don't know mobo, or how to find out)
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I can't play warcraft 3 without significant lag. I know its not my internet, because my parents comp (http://compreviews.about.com/od/budgetdesk/gr/eMachinesT2984.htm) runs it fine, despite being a budget e-machines comp. Which leads me to my next point, if that comp can handle the game without a problem, is it more powerful? I'm kind of a newb with system specs, but i'm pretty sure that it's not any better then mine. Which makes me think something is wrong with my comp.

So I Quick-deleted everything and re-installed windows. I say quick-delete, because I did not reformat it, I just deleted the partition. But my comp still lagged when playing Warcraft 3. So I did free virus scans with AVG, Spybot, and NoD32, all of them coming up with nothing. However, I did do a free scan with RegCare, and it came up with about 380 corrupted files or w/e they where.

What should I do to get WC3 to run well? Do i need to reformat my computer? Is it older/crappier then I think it is? Or is it possible that there has been a hardware failure, like some ram getting fried.

Also, the only things I installed after clearing everything was the driver for the graphics card, Firefox, and WC3. Is there another driver or program that I have to have for my system to run properly?

Last tidbit - When i installed windows, it said some sort of file was not found, then canceled installation several times, each time giving a different file not found. The final time, it still said a file was not found, but it continued installing. Would this mess anything up? If it where crucial, wouldn't windows not continue? And why did it mess up so many times?



Thanks very very much to whoever decides to try to help me. I know its a lot of crap to read, but I wanted to be thorough.

Thanks again.
 
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Your parents computer isn't better than yours, yours is the better PC!

Is it your internet has a slower connection than your parents, because your PC should be able to run it fine! Try turning the options down a little :)
 
I've played it with the options turned all the way down/off, but it doesn't make a difference. Also, another way I know its not the internet is that when we Lan (4 people, no internet), it still runs just as slow.
 
Try and run virus/spware/spbot scans and make sure you don't have loads of proceses running while you play the game.
Also check nothing else is using your bandwidth.;)
 
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