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What's up with my computer?
Synthetic Orange
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Okay, my computer's been not behaving too well recently. After any heavy activity, either a long session of CPU intensive gaming or rendering out stuff, the response time is very very slow. Programs take forever to load up, though once loaded, they work fine. Shutting down also does something similar, it hangs around on the shutting down screen for 10 minutes or so before powering down.
Time doesnt seem to be an issue, just how much activity it's been doing. Several hours playing Solitaire, just browsing or typing up stuff wont bring this on, but doing 3d, or running a newish game for awhile will.
I first thought it might be virtual memory doing this, but I've freed up about 10 gigs for that with no improvement. Does anyone have anything else I can try or should look out for?
Specs: Ath64 3500+, 2 gigs ram, 140 gigs of space, 10 of that unused.
Main culprits: 3DS Max when rendering out large scenes. Zbrush when working on big objects. Dwarf Fortress when running a 200+ dwarf fort, Oblivion.
Time doesnt seem to be an issue, just how much activity it's been doing. Several hours playing Solitaire, just browsing or typing up stuff wont bring this on, but doing 3d, or running a newish game for awhile will.
I first thought it might be virtual memory doing this, but I've freed up about 10 gigs for that with no improvement. Does anyone have anything else I can try or should look out for?
Specs: Ath64 3500+, 2 gigs ram, 140 gigs of space, 10 of that unused.
Main culprits: 3DS Max when rendering out large scenes. Zbrush when working on big objects. Dwarf Fortress when running a 200+ dwarf fort, Oblivion.
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At a guess it could be a motherboard-ram relationship issue, as in compatibility. Or damaged sectors on HD/RAM.
Or plain old spyware.
Faulty/dead/dying fans are really a silent killer for GFX cards.
The fan's running and seated properly on the GFX card.
Sounds like some part of your hardware has degenerated. You could just take it down to a computer store for an inspection if you believe this is so. Usually they give pretty simple solutions; I had a case where my HD had a corrupt sector, they sold me a new HD with my old data on it for a decent price.
Oh, try cleaning your registry too. Search Google for registry cleaning software, won't take long to find a free alternative. When you open software I'm pretty sure it has to have a hunt through your registry (which is clogged which programs that didn't quite uninstall, most of the time.)