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DooMBoy

Something's Not Right Here

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I've noticed that as of late all my games on the computer (Doom, Doom2, Heretic, and HeXen) have been running somewhat slowly. There's also unbearable choppiness when I'm playing, say, Alien Vendetta's map32 (which has a lot of monsters). Before I formatted, I had no problem with Doom, Doom2, Heretic or Hexen being choppy or somewhat slow.
Everything will be fine, but suddenly there will be a slight pause, then everything will go back to the way it was.

Before I formatted my hard drive, everything was fine. Now, game-wise, everything is not fine.
This sucks.

System Specs:
PIII 450 mhz
Voodoo3 Gfx Card
64 megs RAM
Windows98SE is my current OS

Oh yeah, only thing that's running right now is AIM.

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You know better.

System specs.

Name your OS.

Check what's running now. Sounds like you reinstalled Windows and got something in the background humping your Pentium.

When you have a sudden computer problem you'll always get answered faster if you're more descriptive.

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It's your system resources. When you reformatted, a bunch of BS program fluff got re-initiated in the background. Once I found out about this, I quickly mastered squeezing every bit of pentium juice out of my PC and now get 97% resources on it.

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Fredrik said:

Maybe if you delete a lot of Windows files, it will run faster.

Yes, Doomboy, make a folder for just DLL files on your local drive, then put every DLL file on your computer in there. =P

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Check out what's running in the background. I recently found out I had a lot of spyware active while I was surfing around. It made my computer a lot slower. Anyway, you're referring to gaming-problems, but unnecessary programs running in the background always slow your computer down, sometimes a little, sometimes a lot.

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Ok, I got a question for you. When you hit Ctrl+Alt+Del in windows and get that Close program prompt, you see two main programs; Explorer and Systray. I know waht explorer does, but what about systray?

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Systray is your taskbar/start menu stuffage.

Doomboy: you might also try running scandisk and defrag. Also check for viruses.

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DooMBoy, I suggest installing the memory manager that I recommend here:

http://www28.brinkster.com/mykdoom/command.htm

You can download it from my page there. It's a free version that isn't being distributed by the manufacturer anymore (the newer versions are free only for a limited time.) It helps a lot with the kind of problem you describe.

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DooMBoy said:

System Specs:
PIII 450 mhz
Voodoo3 Gfx Card
64 megs RAM
Windows98SE is my current OS


...*cough* I see your problem. *cough*

=P

Honestly, however, I do agree with stphrz - defrag your hard drive and check for viruses...

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Also I suggest you reformat your hard drive, and put it in the freezer. After a few hours, take it out and wash with soap and hot water. Check your Windows CD for scratches. Have you looked at porn recently? Sometimes a computer gets slow just because it's unhappy; looking at porn might make it happy again. Don't forget to remove old shortcuts from the desktop, as they not only take up resources, but prevent the computer from seeing you clearly. If nothing helps, try rebooting the computer; it might take a few dozen times, but you will certainly see some improvement.

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That card is actually too sexy for that pc so watch what you say. I am a voodoo 3 fan.

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if it was up to my sister, she would say having 2 columns of icons on the desktop would be the problem...


indeed, memory usage.

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lament said:

Also I suggest you reformat your hard drive, and put it in the freezer. After a few hours, take it out and wash with soap and hot water. Check your Windows CD for scratches. Have you looked at porn recently? Sometimes a computer gets slow just because it's unhappy; looking at porn might make it happy again. Don't forget to remove old shortcuts from the desktop, as they not only take up resources, but prevent the computer from seeing you clearly. If nothing helps, try rebooting the computer; it might take a few dozen times, but you will certainly see some improvement.

Smartass :P

EDIT: Now I know something's not right. I tried running Defrag, and it told me there's not enough memory to run it. Never before, in my experience, has Defrag said that before. I checked how much memory I had. 88% free memory. OK WTF? What do I do now?

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I tried running Defrag, and it told me there's not enough memory to run it.


I've seen that error when I disabled virtual memory on a machine with 16MB of RAM (part of a failed experiment). You might want to look at your VM settings. If Windows is set to automatically allocate VM and you have low HD space I could see how that might happen. Although if recently reformatted you shouldn't have that much junk on there...

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DooMBoy said:

Everything will be fine, but suddenly there will be a slight pause, then everything will go back to the way it was


This exact same thing happened to me. Your computer is so low on memory that it is mem swapping (hence the occasional pause).

If your playing a FPS that has jumping, don't risk it, or you will wind up dead if you jump while it freezes.

some things to try:

-partition you HD
-scandisk, then defrag
-deleating or moving all useless files
-deleate your Temporary Inetrnet Files.
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There's a problem with running Scandisk - I can't. It won't let me. Just like Defrag, it says there's not enough free memory. I just checked, and it's at (/me checks again) 85% free memory. WTF?

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ok ok ok. check your virtual memory. if you dont think it has enough, add more. shit, i have 1 gig of it and i never have a probleemo. also, i would get more ram. up to 98 or 128. are you able to upgrade to a newer os such as winblows 2k or xp? i would suggest 2k (not me)

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If it all worked satisfactorily before, then there is no point in upgrading it.

If virtual memory is somehow disabled (it is enabled by default when installing Windows), then enable it. Otherwise run a virus scan or examine the start up program list very carefully.

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