XP video problem

[shockX]

i just did a clean install of XP about a week ago, and so far its really great, except for this one problem.

the problem is that no matter where, the screen seems to freeze for half a second, about every second. its not noticable at first, but after a while it really gets on my nerves, especially while playing games, when games that used to be smooth get really choppy (cus of the freezes about every second).

it doesnt just freeze on 3d stuff, it freezes on anything, from dragging around windows to watching a video to playing games.

u can look at my system specs on the link below (in my sig), i have all the latest drivers, (my nvidia drivers are the latest official ones, i've tried the beta ones too it does the same thing). i'm thinking that i need more ram.... i only have 128MB PC133 SDRAM on this computer, i dont know... any opinions?

thx

 

[shockX]

bump

i just borrowed a stick of 128MB ram from a friend and its still the same... any ideaS?

 

[Alex]

shoddy drivers perhaps?

maybe you have too much stuff enabled like FSAA and anistropic texture filtering and all... this causes major lags in my games

 

[Insidious]

That sounds like you have more than one app. fighting for resources.

might wanna use task manager (cntrl-alt-del) to see what is running and

try experimenting with ending tasks and see if it helps you identify which

one is the culprit.

Are you listening to music when this is occuring?
Have you disabled automatic error reporting and updating?
Are you on a local network and accessing another computer (or vise versa)?
You might try disabling file indexing (OS might be building/maintaining catalog
causing interruptions)
what happens if you remove that zip drive (or at least kill the silly software
so many of them want to run in the background so you can see their advertisements)

etc.
etc.
etc.

 

[shockX]

thx 4 the replies so far..

i tried closing down all the processes (cept for vital system ones), i turned off automatic reporting, i disabled indexing, and tried removing the zip drive too...

i also tried turning off all those effects in winxp (so it looks like old windows, none of that flashy fancy stuff), and its the same thing...

anyone got any ideas?

 

[Insidious]

You might take a look at:

System Properties (right-click my computer) => Advanced => (Performance) Settings

and see if there is anything worth experimenting with in there.

(careful to remember what you did so you can go back)

It seems like the computer you are on (PIII 600) should be Plenty to run XP smoothly

NOTE: I have noticed that when my computer is idling, the hard drive light flicks at a
rate of about once a second. (never have figured out what this is) Possible that your
screen hickups when HD is accessed???