Short-term lag

[j3rMs]

This problem has been occuring for a while..
Everytime i load a game.. the first few seconds or minutes it will be very lag.. however after a while the gameplay becomes smooth...

Its as if the computer needs to "warm up" before every game..
Why is this so?
Are there any ways to solve this problem?
Does incresing the amount of RAM in my system help?
Lastly are there programs to help optimise my graphics card?

*My compaq system has a bios that has very little features therefore tweaking the bios would not be an option.


System Specs :

Pentium 4 1.7 Ghz
256 MB PC 133 SD RAM
256 MB Radeon 9600
40GB Harddisk ( of which i only have 1 gig or so left )

Thanks for your help

 

[muradtalukdar]

If you close down the game and then restart does the lag disappear? This happens with progs like word etc and big progs which use lots of graph like photoshop/coreldraw....

 

[j3rMs]

i turned off every thing b4 running the game but it stilll happens...
Plz help

 

[Traudong]

You said that the gameplay was smooth after few second or minute so I think your hardware don't have any problems. Perhaps it's because of your game.

 

[Apokalipse]

maybe it's still loading stuff to the cache in the RAM, and when it all loads it ends up being smooth

 

[j3rMs]

BUt shoudnt everything be already loaded when the game starts?
Could i change sth to make the loadin faster?

Cheers,

j3rMs.h@h4.ThX

 

[Apokalipse]

it should be loaded, but maybe it doesn't for this particular game

 

[j3rMs]

How come? Issit sth 2 do wif my com?

 

[Apokalipse]

what is the OS?

 

[j3rMs]

Win XP )