game performance

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if i have 504MB of ram and have 23.0GB memory on my local disk(C:) will that be ok for me to get steam and team fortress 2 or get half life 2 deathmatch thank you to anyone who can give me the awnser

Hello, I'm not sure of how to explain this but when playing videos and games on my LCD TV or LCD monitor there is sometimes a tearing of the image, usually during a great amount of movement. I have tried turning vsync on in games and it didn't solve the issue, just dropped frame rates. So...

I recently installed Fifa 2010 on my computer, and just opened it up for the first time. However, it seems as though my computer is constantly pressing the down arrow on the keyboard. I then shut off the game and went in to firefox and it kept on doing the same thing- it kept on switching...

I'm going mad here trying to solve this one. I'm new to Windows 7. I've just installed it 3 weeks ago, and I'm still in the process of installing all my software and small mini-games (shooters, arkanoid-type stuff, bejeweled, etc). I've had virtually no trouble getting my applications to run...

Ok this has completely stumped me to I've come for your help I am experiencing freezing on windows 7 but its a little odd, here are the facts 1) the mouse can still move around the screen but can't click on anything 2) It never freezes when I'm on games 3) pressing ctrl + alt + delete...

Hello all! I have experienced crashes with the BSOD that made me believe it had something to do with a driver that was corrupt, malfunctioning, etc. I would receive the IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL and/or DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. I notice this was happening around the beginning of last...

Okay so for some unknown reason my Call of Duty 4 game crashes my pc and i have to force restart it. Prior to installing cod 4 i played some cod 2 which worked fine in single player and multiplayer without patches but when i installed the patch 1.3 (up to date patch) it would crash when playing...

Hello there, My systems specs are as follows: Epox 9NPA+ Ultra mobo (nForce 4) AMD Athlon 64, 2200 MHz 3500+ 1024 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM) NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS (256 MB) 200 GB SATA 7200 rpm HD I'd like to use win 7 to make use of direct x 10 since win xp lacks the support...

Hi all, great looking site you have here. I discovered it while tearing my hair out trying to look for a solution. Anyway, to the point. Over the past two weeks I have had 4 BSODs. 1 around two weeks ago, and three in the last two days. I had two on the 14th so I updated to the latest ATI 10.10...

Hi all, I install win7 64 bit on the following specs: i5 760 Gigabyte UD3L OCZ 4GB 1333Mhz gold WD Carier green 500GB Sapphire Radeon 5770 After playing for a minute sometimes a little more, the game crashes. It happened with Splinter Cell Double Agent and Prince of Persia Forgotten Sands which...

So, for a week or so i'm having problem whit a bsod that keeps appearing from no where. I tryed reinstalling windows, its the same. I just don't understand why its happening.:( I'm putting here the minidumps and the larg memory dump. If someone can look at them and tell where the problem is...

i use dell inspiron 1525,2gb ram,160gb hard disk,384mb intel video accelerator,32bit windows 7 ultimate.recently i got the split second car game from my friend but it is running very slowly even i reduced the graphics to low and even resolution also.i did the game to run in xp servicepack2...

For the longest time i have been battling a horrible slownes in my win 7 64 bit system. Asus p6t MB i7 -930 2.81 gig overclocked to 3.85 gigs 6 gigs ddr Pny Nvidia gtx 470 over clocked as well. All my games played horribly.. low frame rates etc etc. well when over clocking my grafics...

when i play a game ex crossfire my cpu usage is at 100%, making the game unstable Imageshack - offfcf.png Imageshack - oncf.png

Ok i know theres a 1000 threads about this but instead of having one problem i have 2 now. I started off trying to fix my lag spikes during games and ended up messing up my sound. Computer specs: Windows 7 64 bit. AMD Athlon II X4 620 Processor (4 cpus) 2.6 GHz Memory: 6144 mb ram Graphic...

Hey everyone. I've been having a problem lately where any game that runs on steam crashes after about 10 minutes or so. I've been through all the troubleshooting guides steam has to offer, contacted their support people (who don't seem to care.), and combed through various forums to try to find...

I am led to believe that i have a problem with the video card or the driver for it ! could the driver be the reason for all the flickering, stuttering and constant refreshing ? for instance, when i go to games in my start panel, and play Solitaire, the game stutters alot and freezes ! constantly...

Hello, I'm having some graphical performance issues while simply navigating in windows. Simply by dragging icons or open folders I can notice some stuttering, almost like a framerate issue. Minimizing or maximizing folders is also NOT smooth, it's almost like I don't have video card drivers...

I have a problem where when I minimize any of my games and then maximize them, sometimes they don't have sound and I can't get it back without restarting the application. When I run them normally the sound is fine, but if I minimize them and bring them back up the sound is just gone. Any...