triforce_keeper Posted July 16, 2007 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emasher Posted July 16, 2007 Share Posted July 16, 2007 were you using vista a few months ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triforce_keeper Posted July 16, 2007 Author Share Posted July 16, 2007 Yeah, I know it's not Vista because I was using it when I didn't have the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triforce_keeper Posted July 17, 2007 Author Share Posted July 17, 2007 *BuMp* *bUmP* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konfucius Posted July 19, 2007 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackster Posted July 27, 2007 Share 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) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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