Shoutbox

well l8ly my computer has been going weird on me when i play games. while i am playing, when i move the mouse or press a key on the keyboard, it takes about 2 seconds to respond, like  if im playing Warcraft III: Frozen Throne and i press ENTER and type something it will start to type about 1 second after i started.  and i know this is not lag as the graphics are perfect. e.g. i was getting a average frame rate of about 100.8 fps on Counter Strike Source with full graphics, yet it kept on not responding, and when i was walking i couldnt move the mouse. and i know its not from low ram because this even happens on some flash games  (which dont require much RAM). i just recently downloaded my mouse and keyboard drivers (keyboard one wouldnt install, but the mouse on did and the mouse still doesnt work)

does anyone know what could be wrong (and if its a virus or something, how to get rid of it because my computer hasnt detected anything after security scans)

my graphics card is Nvidea 8500GT
1.0gb Ram
AMD Athlon x64 3200+
Keyboard: Microsoft MultiMedia Keyboard 1.0A
Mouse: Microsoft Comfort Optical Mouse 1000

is the monitor turned on?

LOL what do u mean by that, off course is turned on i can see the image it just takes a while to respond

Look at your CPU usage and processes while this is happening and see  if a particular process is causing the problem.

This probably isn't the case but you never know (plus it's the only thing I can think of).

thanks i'll try that, and i dont want to format my computer anywayz cus my dad wont let me, cus hes got important documents on this comp

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Originally posted by rm rulz
thanks i'll try that, and i dont want to format my computer anywayz cus my dad wont let me, cus hes got important documents on this comp

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Backup?

Perhaps something is eating up your RAM

umm i dont think so because it is consistent with pretty much any game, and the only thing that slows my computer down that much would be java

Interesting. I think we've all had similar lag at some point, but for different reasons. The last time I recall significant clunkyness, I was using ZoneAlarm on XP, on a fairly dated laptop. Disabling AV and killing any orphaned or pointless processes [such as update schedulers] helps a lot. Making sure you have plenty of disk space for swap, and that the swap is free of fragmentation, can help too.