Slow PC?

[mr_roy]

I'e been experiencing particularly slow game play of late and was wondering if it was just down to my hardware going out of date.

I currently run a Athlon 2200+ processor, with a GF3 Ti 200 graphics card (64Mb) with 512 Mb DDR RAM, I know this is hardly cutting edge, but I'm getting very bad slow down on titles such as Medieval: Total War even at the lowest resolutions. Is it possible that the hardware isn't just responding very efficiently?

Cheers

Nick

 

[Cartman00]

close other running processes, maybe try a defrag, your computer is fine it is just probably your memory being used by start-up programs if you think its this type: Msconfig in Run and go startup tab and uncheck all unused programs.

 

[killerdoberman]

Did you update the video driver lately?

If so, then it might be set to higher settings then you are use to using, i.e. AA and ANISO.

 

[Lord Kalthorn]

Medievel Total War should play fine on it; is it still under Warrenty?

 

[iamroot]

Chances are your registry is bloated. Download some registry cleaners. I have faced lagging due to the registry before.

 

[Lord Kalthorn]

Yeah, its always good to clean the Registry every now and again. Tell us how it goes though.

 

[mr_roy]

After a registry clean out there has been a distinct, if unspectacular, pick up in performance, thank you kindly for your ideas.

Might try a defrag later, but I've never had much luck before, often end in disaster, cheers again.

Nick

 

[Lord Kalthorn]

Lol, well glad to hear its worked, Good luck with your Defrag - don't know why they always end in disaster though.

Try doing it in Safe Mode to stop everything else using the Hard Drive while its shuffling.