Sudden slowdown in framerate
My PC is a Pentium 4 processor with 3.0 ghz, Alienware, with 2 gigs of Ram, ATI Radeon 9800 256 MB video card. I can find the more detailed information if its required, but if not..
With no real event signaling why it's happened, for some reason, the three games I play (Counterstrike source, RTW as the EB mod, and Mount and blade) have suffered tremendous slowdowns on settings which once carried themselves perfectly. In counterstrike source, if I run the system on its suggested stats, I don' think its at all possible, and in any server I play, the moment a player nears me or a firefight starts, a tremendous amount of FPS lag happens, which never used to occur.
RTW is the worst, where in EB, unless I am zoomed all the way out or all the wya in, the game moves practically as a slideshow. And this is with almost every setting off, running it on 1280x760 resolution with 32 bit, and medium detail for most of the sliders. Once more, this never used to happen. I could run 6,000 size battles in RTR or EB with good speed, and once ran 10,000 in RTR with good speed (how, I dont know). For some reason, now, even if I have below 1,000 men total on the battlefield, My game runs at an extreme crawl, and seems to do so, I think, because its frequently switching from sprite to 3d model.
And lastly, M&B, which used to run perfectly unless I made it allow more than 40 people, is dropping its framerate substancially, and I have no clue as to why this and the other two games are suffering so much. I do have a limited supply of hard drive space, being at 16 gigs so far, but I'd been near that area for awhile and this problem never occured. I'm expecting its spyware, but I've done some preliminary scans for it and figure I cleaned it up. I'm thinking its my Drivers, but I don't know how to update it, so I could be using advice.
But otherwise, I really don't know why its experiencing such tremendous slowdowns. I make sure there are few programs running in the background to hog up space, not running winamp or firefox or instant messengers. Does anyone have a clue on how to fix it, with a rather medium or novice approach to it? (Nothing too extreme).
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