why am i lagging

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98vert6spd

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I just got civilization 4
ive been waiting for this game forever

sometimes i get lagging issues when im playing and thats not acceptable

heres my system

3.0 prescott
2 512 corsair value 3200s

6800gt


shouldnt that be enough?

I am thinking it may be time for an overclock
i know my ram is the weak spot how do i set a partition or whatever its called so i can OC the video card and the proc but not the ram?

oh also i have 32 processes running in the task manager.
I want to make it so nothing except sound and vidoe drivers load maybe internet if i can but i dont know what any of the crap is when i run msconfig
 
its defiantly those processes slowing it donw, kill them and tell me if it improves
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You dont even know what processes are running! I've got FEAR running with 50processes in the background on a CeleronD2.8 and it plays fine -- granted that's a GPU bound game but it's just its and example :)

And when you say "lag" do you mean lag or do you mean framiness?
 
Praetor said:
You dont even know what processes are running! I've got FEAR running with 50processes in the background on a CeleronD2.8 and it plays fine -- granted that's a GPU bound game but it's just its and example :)

And when you say "lag" do you mean lag or do you mean framiness?
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okay? i'm just saying that from past experience, I'm hear to learn so don't have to be a jerk
 
okay? i'm just saying that from past experience, I'm hear to learn so don't have to be a jerk
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Hehe, i'm not trying to be a jerk: just making a point that, yes, you are correct that background processes DO dampen gameplay but on the otherhand, the converse is not necesarily true :)
 
no i dont think its the processes. i play bf2 on all high settings on a high resolution with my rig with about 45-50 processes. its definitly not accpetable with ur system. if u have less than 5 gigs left on the hard drive u are running off of that could maybe possibly be the problem.
 
If that Prescott is a socket 478 it could be overheating, which would kick in thermal throttling (and lower performance). Does it lag right from the get-go, or does it take a little to kick in?
 
its deffinately not overheating

i have a slient tower and i idle around 34 and get to 40 under heavy heavy load


I have 13.4 gb left o nthe main hard driver and 159 left on the one im not really using

it is a 478 prescott though

I am thinking i am memory choked

I looked at the task manger while iw as playing and i had about 75000 left

civ4 is apparently very memory intensive

its using nearly800000 on its own

maybe 2 more sticks of memory are in order
 
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