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

I'm not really sure what it is that your computer is or isn't doing.

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

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.

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

Theres one last thing i can think of, do you hav any programs such as morpheus or safe share, if you do and you have highspeed people could be downloading from you, or if you have a network it might be causing you to lag. xl_GoD_L3ke_lx