have a dell inspiron with 768 mb of memory and am not sure why a game will sometimes lag and not work. I am not sure if there is anything i can change or turn off to help it run better. The game says all I needed was 256 memory but for some reason it still lags. My video card is ATI Mobility Radeon 9000. The game says it only needs an 8000. So I am not sure why this is happening. Is there any programs to help with this? Anything would be helpful. Thanks!!
2007-01-07 10:28:15 · 6 answers · asked by mikedee 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
turn your virus scanner and firewall off.. and see the difference
i tried this to improve my framerates in fsx
2007-01-07 16:49:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is your vide coard. When it says it only needs 8000, that means that is what it needs to start up and give you crappy performance. To actually play the game with decent performance, you need a much better video card than what the game states. If they listed what is actually required to play the game with good performance, they would sell a lot less games, hence they list the bare minimum.
2007-01-07 20:16:54 · answer #2 · answered by mysticman44 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It could very well be your computer is trying to run above it limits. However lets try to clean it up a bit to see if it helps. Surely it will not hurt a thing.
A clean computer is key to a faster computer. Run the 3 scans below.
Update and run your Anti-Virus program. Don't have one? You can run a free online scan from Trendmicro. When I have tested it it takes some time to run it but it may be time well spent if it can fix any problems.
Download and run http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
Download, update and run Spybot---http://www.safer-networking.org/ . Don't forget to use the Immunize feature.
Download, update and run Adaware---http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/products/select_your_product.php
Now lets clean up your registry.
Download RegScrubXP--http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?d...
Safely cleans junk out of the Windows 2000/XP system registry. All changes made to the registry are fully restorable to it's original condition. You can make an exclusion list of registry entries that RegScrubXP will not display as problems. You can sift through a list of file extensions, company names, run upon startup programs, Internet Explorer history, and uninstall programs to delete what you think is junk.
Download CleanUp---http://www.stevengould.org/software/clea...
Free disk space, make your computer run better/faster and protect your privacy - all in one easy solution. All for free!
Now lets clean up your disk.
Do a Disk Cleanup and Disk Defrag. You can find both of them by following the path below.
Start>all programs>accessories>system tools>Disk Cleanup. Let it do its thing. You can check every box that has something to delete.
Now follow the same path and do a Disk Defrag. Again just let it do its thing.
Now lets tweak your connection. There are many programs out there to do this. I will give you 2 of them.
The first one is TCP Optimizer.
Description: The TCP Optimizer is a free, easy Windows program that provides an intuitive interface for tuning and optimizing your Internet connection. There is no installation required, just download and run.
http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php...
You can get support for the best way to set it up right from their forum http://forums.speedguide.net/
The second one is Cablenut.
Windows XP tested and approved
CableNut is a tool for optimizing your Internet Connection. We have provided a way to tweak any option you may want to in the adjuster. You can load "CableNut Custom Setting" files that are included with the program to tweak your Internet connection.
http://www.cablenut.com/
Again support is available right from their forum.http://www.broadbandnuts.com/index.php?p...
2007-01-07 18:49:03 · answer #3 · answered by rlh242424 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Make sure you close all other programs... programs like iTunes or AIM could be running in the background... go to the "Start" menu then "Run" and type in "msconfig" - there's a tab that says "Startup" - I uncheck everything. That way there aren't any programs running in the background when I startup my computer... you'll need to reboot for this to take effect... spyware could be to blame too. I use Ad-Aware and Spybot which you can get from www.download.com - run them every couple weeks :)
2007-01-07 18:33:31 · answer #4 · answered by amandahill03 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Laptops weren't really designed for gaming (unless you dropped 2k on one)...it could be your video card or the video card using shared memory.
2007-01-07 18:31:12 · answer #5 · answered by imppilot 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
amanda..... is checking off everything for start up recommmended? will it prevent from running new keyboards and things like that?
2007-01-07 19:31:59 · answer #6 · answered by RaveN the knife freak 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋