A few months ago I began to experience some very hefty lag (computer and internet) when playing certain games. They'll start out fine as they always have but after about 5-10 minutes, depending on the game, it all goes to poop in a very bad way and renders the game unplayable. Some of the games will fix themselves after around about the same amount of smooth playing time but it just continues through this cycle. The games affected are both COD:MW's, Farcry 2, the recent MOH beta and Civ5 and it's driving me nuts. I'm running a quad 2.8ghz, 3gig ram and a now aging Geforce Go 7950gtx on WinXP SP3. Besides MOH and Civ5 the other games used to run perfect, but now they're the worst ones with MOH and Civ5 experiencing a somewhat lesser effect. I've defragged the game folders, am free from an viruses, have plenty of room to spare and I don't think it's a heat issue (started mid-winter, plus it doesn't heat up anymore than it ever did) so does anyone have any ideas on what the problem is? I'd like to steer clear of a format because I have ALOT of the kids photos and gigs of other stuff, and money's tight so buying a HDD to put it on will take a little saving unfortunately.
Cheers.
Cheers.
