I'm not trying to be annoying here or anything, but as I stated I've had this problem for well over a year now and I figure if anyone can help it's you people. Original Message Name: i_effin_rule Date: April 10, 2006 at 09:46:53 Pacific Subject: Serious Lag Problems OS: XP Pro CPU/Ram: 512 Manufacturer/Model: Compaq Comment: For about a year now I've had a problem with my computer lagging for no real reason. It happened shortly after adding a new harddrive and installing the Sims 2 University. I was able to score a copy of XP and formatted my C drive about 6 months ago or so thinking that might fix the problem, but no it still goes on. I even tried unhooking the new harddrive and just using the old one to see if maybe it was the new harddrive, but again nothing. I had read something on here about the sasser virus and how it can do things like this, but not get picked up on spyware or antivirus. I suppose it could be this but I assumed after formatting my windows drive that it would have taken care of that. My computer lags on just about any game including The Sims 2, old games from like 99, and even some text based games. Any help with this would be very much appreciated. Thanks. www.myspace.com/blueskytomorrows www.myspace.com/sarahcoleman www.myspace.com/bakercourtrecords www.blueskytomorrows.com Report Offensive Message For Removal Response Number 1 Name: Badboy Date: April 10, 2006 at 10:54:20 Pacific Subject: Serious Lag Problems Reply: I'm not really sure what it is that your computer is or isn't doing. Report Offensive Follow Up For Removal Response Number 2 Name: i_effin_rule Date: April 11, 2006 at 06:42:27 Pacific Subject: Serious Lag Problems Reply: Does anyone know if it could be hardware related? Video Card? Power Supply? Mother Board? Processor? Thanks again. www.myspace.com/blueskytomorrows www.myspace.com/sarahcoleman www.myspace.com/bakercourtrecords www.blueskytomorrows.com Report Offensive Follow Up For Removal Response Number 3 Name: Ridder Date: April 14, 2006 at 10:50:39 Pacific Subject: Serious Lag Problems Reply: Well, I have The Sims 2 and it lags for me. It's probably your graphics card you may have your GHz refresh rate too high, or when your playing sims check what you have the graphics set on if there set to high it may be causing the lag, or it could alos be lack of space, multi tasking, downloading something, having another game running. Report Offensive Follow Up For Removal Response Number 4 Name: i_effin_rule Date: April 16, 2006 at 05:19:02 Pacific Subject: Serious Lag Problems Reply: I was just using the Sims as an example of something my computer should(and did) run fairly easily. I can't run any game now without major lag. Games I use to play with ease like Dungeon Siege and KOTOR no longer can be played because of the crazy slow down and jumpiness. www.myspace.com/blueskytomorrows www.myspace.com/sarahcoleman www.myspace.com/bakercourtrecords www.blueskytomorrows.com www.myspace.com/blueskytomorrows www.myspace.com/sarahcoleman www.myspace.com/bakercourtrecords www.blueskytomorrows.com

What is your Compaq Model number ?? Mine is a Presario 5320US. With mine I find that my video card does not meet the System Requirements of about 90% of any game on the market. Only thoughts I have is to try the following to see what is slowing you down-- How to Perform a Clean Boot in Windows XP How to perform advanced clean-boot troubleshooting in Windows XP Print the articles for reference. To find out what each Startup(or Process) item does or means, and any recommendation as to if you should close the process: Task List Programs

Some more info that is basicly the same-- Games: How to perform a clean boot to prevent background programs from interfering with play http://support.microsoft.com/kb/331796/en-us

Have you tried updating the drivers for the graphics card? 512mb ram should be OK, so it could be lag from the video ram.

Have you tried de-fragging your hard drive to see if that improves anything, also, as always, make sure you have the latest graphich drivers installed. "PARIAH" [British By Birth]