[Morts]

Originally Posted by CaptainHaplo

Morts - we will need more info - specifically what OS are you running, driver versions, etc.

A couple of easy things to check - would be get a good process viewer application (or just use taskmanager) and find out what all is running in the background. Often, there are a hundred things running that don't need to be.

Also - see if you can check temps on the machine - cpu, bridge and gpu temps are really the criticals.

Once you get more in depth - things to check would be memory timings, cache status (enabled/disabled), processor affinity (as some software runs better if you set this), etc.

If you can, let us know what OS your running, what version of dx (if its 9 what release date), the driver versions for both your video and sound, the temps of the pc, and also the specs on you HD (free space, sata or IDE, one or 2 drives), and where your swap file is if you have multiple drives.

ow, lotsa stuff
gonna have to wait till tomorrow as im busy now