I think it all started after a power interuption. my start up is slow, looong black screen, and XP sound comes on well after the desktop has completed loading.
I've done:system restore, defrag, disk clean, ran system mechanic 6.
I have lag in BF2 and that's what's got my goat. Any ideas besides trash my Dell today ?
Does you sound seem like it's skipping? When I was having hard drive problems mine was doing that. I found the HD instead of running on UDMA 5 it was in PIO which is the slowest mode.
You can check by going to device manager and checking properties of your IDE controllers. Mine shows Secondary for my CD Rom as UDMA 2 and Primary for my hard drive as UDMA 5.
If you right click on the Primary IDE Channel in Device manager and select Uninstall and then restart it should reinstall it in the fastest DMA mode your hard drive is capable of.
Here's a thought....Have you adjusted your Virtual Memory lately. Sometimes this may need tuning.
It's under Control Panel/System/Advanced tab/Performance/Advanced tab/Virtual Memory.
There should be a recommended size there for you computer......Select a Custom Size and set the Maximum and Minimum to that size or a little higher. I have mine @ 2500.
Do NOT select "no paging file"
If this doesn't help, you can always set it to "let Windows manage"
Just go out and get a new computer. You've been having problems with BF2 on that machine anyway, and with the new one comming out you don't want to struggle the whole time.
Having problems with PC and game lag
Posted - Jul 22 2006 : 09:29:06
