triforce_keeper Posted July 16, 2007 Posted July 16, 2007 Ok, whenever I play games on my pc (usually Black + White 2, Sims 2, Oblivion at the moment) after about 10 minutes it slows down, alot, it's really really laggy. So I press the windows key, and I have a program called FreeRamxp pro which tells you how muhc ram you have left or somthing, and it's usually on 1300mb + and after this slowdown happens it's between 200mb - 700mb. So I free the ram up, and it goes back to 1300mb +. But then 10 minutes later is goes back down again to lag hell! Now I presume this is the cause of the slowdown, but what confuses me is a few months ago this wasn't happening at all. I have ran virus scans etc and everything alright. I run the games on max settings but I also did few months back when it was fine. Heres my specs if it's any help Windows Vista AMD Athlon 3700+ 2gig ram NVidia GeForce 7600gt Any help would be appreciated.
triforce_keeper Posted July 16, 2007 Author Posted July 16, 2007 Yeah, I know it's not Vista because I was using it when I didn't have the problem.
Konfucius Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 I just read that the GF8800 has the problem that it doesn't free up the ram so it gets totally overloaded. I don't know if it's the same with your card but chances are it is. Maybe due to a faulty driver-set by nVidia, I don't know. Apparently they are working on it so hope that the next update will fix it. Sorry i can't give you any other advice but maybe you get lucky when googling it.
Jackster Posted July 27, 2007 Posted July 27, 2007 Something probably has a memory leak, try quiting FreeRamxp pro when you're gaming and turn off any other programs (anti-virus, firewall etc)
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