System Trouble

LucaZone · Post by **LucaZone** » Thu Sep 19, 2002 6:06 pm

Found what might be causing the lag i get ingame.

Now although there is a virus program and zone alarm running, switching either off has no effect on this wierd thing that happens. See here. My system is idle and yet i get a performance graph like that.

Ive run both upto date virus scans and defragging on all drives. Anything else that could cause this effect? on an idle pc.

johnbrooks · Post by **johnbrooks** » Fri Sep 20, 2002 9:12 am

Just an idle thought - you haven't got MSOffice installed with Find Fast enabled have you?

John

daveannjon · Post by **daveannjon** » Fri Sep 20, 2002 10:21 am

I got something similar and traced it to my printer which was connected to the parallel port. Changing it to usb cured the stuttering which was occuring every 4 seconds or so. Hope you find a cure.
Dave W

LucaZone · Post by **LucaZone** » Fri Sep 20, 2002 7:06 pm

I do have MS OFfice installed and would be quite keen to know how to turn find fast off.

Also about the printer, that could also be the problem, but then this problem has only started recently and ive had my printer ages.

Ive managed to reduce it by about half (half the peaks, not have the cpu power), but running ad-ware to trace out any dodgy stuff. It only picked up cookies but it still had at least some effect on this dodgy thing thats happening to my system.

Fodda · Post by **Fodda** » Sat Sep 21, 2002 12:07 am

Very interesting... I have all sorts of apps etc running when I first turn on the pooter. I'll have a go at disabling most of them and see what happens to my frame rate...

daveannjon · Post by **daveannjon** » Sat Sep 21, 2002 12:08 pm

I found out my problem was parallel port related by using the system performance tools on Windows XP. It was rather time-consuming, but allowed the identification of exactly what was causing the spikes. If you do a search on google groups you might find people who have had similar probs.
Good Luck
Dave W

johnbrooks · Post by **johnbrooks** » Sat Sep 21, 2002 12:35 pm

To turn find fast off search the MS knowledge base for Q282106. This also explains the problems it can cause.

John

Jonnie1972 · Post by **Jonnie1972** » Sat Sep 21, 2002 6:25 pm

Hi

Sometimes you cannot whack a good system format, gets rid of all the ., yes you may well have to install everything again, but it saves all the hassle with problems etc.
Like me back up your trains folder in MSTS, saves you installing all the models again if MSTS is run from your C: drive (bad idea anyways).
I experienced an alomost unexplainable slow down in system performance once, took ages to open windows explpoer even,, I looked into everything, and came to the conclusion it was screwed and formatted my comp, all was well after that.

Jonnie

LucaZone · Post by **LucaZone** » Sat Sep 21, 2002 6:28 pm

Well this has come about after i formated last week. :/

Jonnie1972 · Post by **Jonnie1972** » Sat Sep 21, 2002 6:28 pm

Hi

Me again, by pressing Control-Alt-Delete on your desktop should only have Explorer ans systray running.

Jonnie1972 · Post by **Jonnie1972** » Sat Sep 21, 2002 6:33 pm

Hi

After looking at your graphs, I see you XP, I dont use it and if something in XP is causing this...........I draw a blank.
I always say after a system format put things back on gradually, and see how your system performs, if it then goes bad you can identify a program that may be causing a problem.
Beleive it or not I used a bit of CD Writing software called Prassi CD, makes your D-Rs work like a floppy, just copy stuff across and it copies.
This actually caused problems with ones CD Writer and Scanner and caused slow down, why I dont know, but never used it again.

Jonnie

yorkie2k · Post by **yorkie2k** » Sat Sep 21, 2002 8:54 pm

This may help us to find a solution: In task manager, go to the processes tab, sort the processes by CPU usage and paste a screenshot here.