Games are screwing up for friend

[diabloII]

His specs:

Intel 2.4Ghz
768MB of ram (512,256)
nvidia fx5700 ultra

for him, the first 10 minutes or so of games are fine, but after that, it starts screwing up and he gets like 3fps in any game

he has 71.89 drivers and his card doesn't support temperature monitoringfor some reason

also, he says that almost any program he's in takes up 100% CPU tuilization

 

[SHAWN]

Scan for spyware and virus's. What Anti-virus does he have?

 

[diabloII]

he has norton and AVG

i just to him to run ad adware//spybot s&d and avg, i'll see what i can come up with (so far he's gotten near 100 on ms anti spyware and 50 on ad adware)

 

[Troubledyouth]

that is most likely the problem and tell him to keep the anti spyware updated and to use mozilla from now on cause i don't near as much spyware since i started using mozilla

 

[woot7800GT]

Could be overheating, I suppose.

 

[Dana69]

I agree with Woot. Make sure theres enough cooling and it runs at a good temp.

I doubt spyware can cause that much of a problem... Unless he hasn't scanned for it in oh... 5 years.
Virus - Nah, not if he has an updated antivirus software.

Have him update his mobo drivers, as it could be an issue there as well.