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Lag while my computer is good.
Name: Jordan Date: January 29, 2009 at 17:54:09 Pacific OS: Windows XP Subcategory: General
Comment:
Well, im playing games like Left 4 Dead and warhammer online, and im lagging quite bad.Ive checked where the server was on Left 4 dead and it was resonibly local.My specs for my computer are: Nvidia GeForce 9800GT video card, 3.1GHz Processing, 2GB of ram, Dual core processing...etc. Its a bran new computer but im still getting tones of lag in-game. If anyone can help me please.
Name: Martin Crandall Date: January 29, 2009 at 19:05:58 Pacific
Reply:
How many processes are you running.
What antivirus are you running?
What anti-spyware?
XP with 2 gigs of RAM should be plenty!?!
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Response Number 2
Name: Jordan12 Date: January 30, 2009 at 15:30:31 Pacific
Reply:
I am also lagging in counterstrike source which is weird because my 7 year old laptop can run it with 0 lag... AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+, MMX, 3DNow (2 CPUs), ~3.1GHz its a bran new computer and im lagging this much i dont understand
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Pls help me out! :)
