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Really Slow PC Games

The Magnificent ManCookerThe Magnificent ManCooker Registered User regular
edited October 2010 in Help / Advice Forum
Hey everybody

Well all of a sudden whenever I play a game(Most notably Team Fortress 2) the game starts to get really slow. Its not necessarily choppy but as if the game was moving in slow motion is more accurate of a description. This happens even when I play offline. My computer could run it totally fine on high settings and lowering the graphics doesn't seem to make a difference.

Ok well if anyone could help with this it would be great

Oh and I did defrag Team Fortress 2 and no dice

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  • BartholamueBartholamue Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I could probably guess this, but you may have some overheating issues.

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  • Seattle ThreadSeattle Thread Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Spyware & virus check. Could be something running in the background, sucking up all of your RAMs.

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  • CasualCasual Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle Flap Flap Flap Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Go through all the usual fixes first like updating your graphics card drivers. You would be surprised how often this fixes the problem.

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  • The Magnificent ManCookerThe Magnificent ManCooker Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Well I opened my case dusted it and moved it to a more air ventilated spot and now it works mostly fine.

    I also clicked pretty much every maintenance related program too.

    To be honest I'm not sure it was heat related due to the case being relatively cool, but hey I'm not complaining.

    Thanks you guys =D

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  • urahonkyurahonky Cynical Old Man Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Try this, open up task manager (ctrl+alt+del) and go to performance. Check the average % used. Now keep it open, open up TF2, join a server, then quit and see what it jumps to. Basically see if it's your processor that's bottlenecking your computer.

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