Okay im on the verge of dropping PC and turnin to consoles!!

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Im just fed up of having to re-install (windows) my gaming system literaley every 2-3 weeks when the performance just suddenly drops (only on gaming) and i cant play my games at max detail ant more!!!!! It just dosnt make sense! How can a PC, after a certain amount of time passed, just suddenly slow right down and give me unacceptalbe 7800GTX framerates just like that!!? :evil: Of corse when i do a clean install (which i have to do aprox. every 2 weeks) the gaming is back to the right speed..... for 2 weeks, when it starts again!! I take such good care of my system and have never, ever had any spyware or viruses so what is going on!? All this is starting to make me hate pc gaming!! Plz help!
 
Personally I can't imagine what would be happening your system that every 2 weeks you require a clean install to play games. After every clean install you do your games become unplayable? If I have to guess it some software that is being loaded is affecting the system. Do you load everything the same way each time? Or do you vary your install? Maybe try loading only some of the basics with one of your current games and see it still dies in 2 weeks. Maybe then you can narrow it down.
 
mmm goats and grannies 😛
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dunno what ur lookin at tbh lol, well anyways id say there is some software that ur putting on ur machine thats putting ur pc on a "go slow" is it a manufacturer's pc or a custom system?


possibly are u running loads of scanning software like registry cleaners, anti virus or anti spyware progs, the reason y i ask a friend of mine uses too many and finds himself doing the same thing as u tho not as often as every 2 weeks
 
No see the thing is, as i said when i do a clean install my games run fine again, framerates etc. back to normal. Upon re-install i only install most recent official graphics card and chipset drivers. Everything goes fine until about 2-3weeks later when, like i said, the performance just drops for no reason. This time when it happened i had done nothing to alter the system!? I have already replaced my graphics card once before so surely that coudnt be faulty?? Did chkdsk and it reported no hard drive errors! Couldnt fgure out how to get memtest to run so memory has gone unchecked but if it was a memory problem i would probly notice slow downs in general windows usage, which i dont. Only gaming. Any more advice, suggestions?
 
Hate to break it to you but this is just the nature of Windows XP gaming. If you do not want to deal with it... well either be a console gamer... or do what that guy said:
fresh install. disable automatic updates for windows. also make sure you have no connection to the internet execpt for activating windows. now install only ONE game. do not install any other software apart from windows and the game. now play it and see if the the performance drops. dont use the internet at all.

if it still happens its hardware.
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Basically the thing you have to realize about windows is that every new installation of software will cause it to slow down or become less reliable. So you have to try and install as little as possible
 
Seems to me that you probably have scanners running in the background or some other software holding your performance back. I have no such problem myself when it comes to gaming on a pc. Do you have very many scanning programs loaded?
 
Howabout peripherals? Some mouse/gamepads have compatability issues that can cripple performance (drivers?).
Does your system just slowdown a lot or do they become completely unplayable, and/or crash to desktop?
 
Okay so i updated my g driver to 91.31 and my performance in FEAR is better than ever. It shot up! In the built in fps test i got 39min, 71avg and 165max! Everything max cept for Vol. lights medium. Thats compared to 36min, 65/66avg and 159max which i was getting an hour ago.... I only ran the test once so it could be a mess up but i sure hope not!!! Anyway so performance now is better than what i was getting even after a clean install! So could it just be that i need to update my driver every couple of weeks or so?
 
Umm.. well all i know is that after updating my gdriver today fixed the slow downs. Also i have never tried running my games with no updated drivers on a clean install. Ive always downloaded the latest chipset/graphics drivers first thing. Then tested. If thats the answer to your question. Why do you ask?
 
lol, you won't have to update your drivers every 2-weeks 😛 Hell I'd be shocked if their were even significant, stable, updates on Nvidias driver tree every 2-weeks.

Good to hear the new driver is working well, and it should continue to work fine. I can't see any reason why the driver would "degrade" over time.
 
Hell I'd be shocked if their were even significant, stable, updates on Nvidias driver tree every 2-weeks.
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Lol i didnt think of that.
I can't see any reason why the driver would "degrade" over time.
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Yeah but i cant help but think that thats exactly what happened with my previous driver (84.21)... Kinda weird isnt it.
 
Get a Mac mini for browsing the web, using Word etc... and leave your PC for gaming (away from an internet connection, if you can help it)

My PC isn't exactly the greatest, but it was a lot worse when I was using it for everything. Now that it's just games (and tinkering) it's much happier, and the Mac is better for all the 'boring bits' anyway.
 
I actually have a Mac but its so old... 1996/97 or sumthin! I would never touch that again though, in this day and age!
 
You must be going where you shouldn't be going without protection. Even my worst customers don't have to come in and have that done so often, and their job it seems is to screw it up beyond use every chance they get.
Your problem may be not thinking, not enough anti spyware programs, or you think you can view porn without paying a price.
You got other issues if you have to load drivers all of the time, get someone that knows that stuff to go over your system.
 
Im just fed up of having to re-install (windows) my gaming system literaley every 2-3 weeks when the performance just suddenly drops (only on gaming) and i cant play my games at max detail ant more!!!!! It just dosnt make sense! How can a PC, after a certain amount of time passed, just suddenly slow right down and give me unacceptalbe 7800GTX framerates just like that!!? :evil: Of corse when i do a clean install (which i have to do aprox. every 2 weeks) the gaming is back to the right speed..... for 2 weeks, when it starts again!! I take such good care of my system and have never, ever had any spyware or viruses so what is going on!? All this is starting to make me hate pc gaming!! Plz help!
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Completely agree. iv been a pc gamer for years and years, but hardware prices are insanely high for crappy performance..i have a 7800gtx, which is a 450 dollar video card( complete with 2 gigs of ram and fx 55), and gives me a whopping 33 fps in outside environments in oblivion, thats just unexceptable after paying that much. Even the "awesome!" 7950gx2,gives you a HUGE 37 fps in outside environments, if your happy with that, after paying 600 bucks for a video card, theres something wrong with you. And after play oblivion on a friends 360, it was pretty amazing getting a constant 60 fps, hdr and AA at the same time. for a consol that mearly runs 399 bucks, and ran it on a pc monitor and looked awesome. The only reason i havnt gone to a consol, is cuz they dont have keyboard mouse support for Fps's n such, if a 360 or ps3 got keyboard mouse support for all their games, that would be the end of PC gaming. And also, its like you guys are making up excuses of why his computer is running crappy with games..."drivers, peripherals plugged in and how many programs your running" .....No, has nothing to do with any of those, its simlpy the fact that Manufacturers want your money. They are selling these new "Great" video cards for 600 bucks , just so you can get crappy frames if turned up to higher resolutions. (im sorry, 30 fps is just not exceptable by any means unless you have a video card like a 9800 pro) THey have the technology to make one video card, and make it work for every game at a steady 60 fps, but they dont, they do very small upgrades on each new video card, to make sure that you will come back and buy more, which is smart on their part, dumb on the consumers part.
 
I commend you for wanting to go the console route. That is exactly what their made for, GAMING.

PCs were never meant to be toys, but when you hang around enthusiasts any and everything is bound to happen.

I suggest following you heart. Since most consoles have online multiplayer gaming you will still be able to get your "frag on" in the universe. Leave computer work to the computer and gaming to the console.

Peace Out!

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I didn’t read all the posts so sorry if this has been mentioned, but the once over I gave the thread I didn’t see it.

of the games you install do any of them have starforce 4 protection or use steam valve protection (ect half life 2 for steam or ToCA 3 for starforce 4)

I know from personal experiance that thoes 2 protection systems FU*K up a pc. Now to fix this small problem you just need to treat the game install like you downloaded the game illegally. I do this all the time, make an image of my cd or dvd, mount it, get a no cd crack or what ever crack I need then boom no prob with the pc.

I haven’t tried anything with getting around the valve stuff bc after I got Half life 2 I promised never to support a company that effs me over like that. After I beat hl2 I reloaded windows and never touched that game again. I might buy hl2 episode 1 after I find a way to crack it but not until I know I won’t have to put up with valve crap

Those protection systems accomplish nothing but screwing over the people that legally buy the game to play it, those that want to steal it, the protection only slightly inconveniences them.
 
Hey guys, yeah just to say my good framerate didnt last..... Back to shitty performance now!! :evil: I just dont believe it! Installed the new forceware driver - great performance, 1 hour later its slowed down again!!? Okay there is definately something wrong here and it just does not make sense! I give up.
 
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