Long story short, I haven't got an amazing computer (dual core 1.83Ghz i think, 2gb ram, Geforce 210 graphics card.. i know, it's probably got hamsters in a wheel powering it somewhere..) but I was quite happy running TS2010 without TSX and achieving a good frame rate. But, I decided to update my graphic card's drivers for the first time in a year, Biiiiig mistake! First issue is that doing this driver update meant that running in 1440x900 was no longer supported by the card, I have no idea why.. even when I would make a custom resolution through the Nvidia panel it just didn't look right. but the biggest issue was that all the sudden my audio had become super stuttery too and this was without even playing any games, just using my computer for browsing and listening to music on last.fm. Panicked and immediately done a system restore to the day before, which has restored my graphics to the original drivers which I'm happy with, but i've still got this stutter.
Looking into it more I realised that ever since i done this driver update that i'm losing just over 1gb of ram permanently on the system processes when looking at the task manager, even though I barely have anything running, even in the background. And of course this has had a knock on affect to RW now that i'm always getting frame rates at a crawling speed, even with eeeeeverything set to the lowest (it says 14fps but it never displays lower, even when i can count the FPS myself!)
I'm a bit bewildered to what to do, I've done system restores, driver rollbacks etc and the problem remains, I can't do a full computer reinstall either as I've got no windows CDs and would loose too much software that I can't find disks for again (I'm skint before anyone says buy a hard drive to back up!) Is there anything i'm missing out on? Or is my computer completely stuffed?
