[10068]

Now keep in mind I have a computer that I custom built in 2003/2004, so it obviously won't play the newest games and all that (although I play Doom 3 and Oblivion on it)... however, that being said, my system is overall very snappy and works very well for what I need it to. I am kind of a tweak junkie so it runs probably a lot better than it "should" for only having a Radeon 9800 AIW and P4 3.2Ghz w/HT. I will be upgrading soon but I have more important things to spend my money on at this juncture.

Is there a reason that the programs are so laggy? With the newest driver version, even when right-clicking on the tray icon, I get like 5 seconds of lag before the context menu pulls up. What the hell?

The more important actions cause considerable lag as well, considering it's just a freaking control panel for audio drivers. The worst is if I open the "Console Launcher" (turquoise icon) and switch between Modes from there instead of the systray icon. The lag and stuttering/"smearing" when it animates the transition it just horrible. I have tried setting my DirectX/Direct3D/DirectDraw graphics drivers' settings all to "High Performance" profile which doesn't change these symptoms at all -- also I should mention that I’m using the minimal ATI drivers (not the CCC since that thing is crazy laggy as well) and have ATI Tray Tools installed, so again my graphics run a lot better than they "should" if I was using default drivers and setup.

Could this issue be dependant on RAM speeds? My CAS Latency(s) are set to 2-2-2-5 and Dual Channel mode etc.; however it is only PC2700, 166 MHz bandwidth at the moment.

Screenshots of system specs, courtesy of CPU-Z, are below:
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/478...stemspecsj.png

Help

EDIT: I search for about 15 minutes on Google and found virtually nothing about this issue, and nothing at all that was helpful to me.


Thanks,
--Sdu/DK

 

[10068]

No thoughts?

 

[Ares]

What do your memory usage and CPU usage at? Is your hard drive thrashing and is the LED blinking all the time?

 

[leeperry]

XP SP3? show us your taskmanager w/ the processes

 

[10068]

Quote:

Originally Posted by leeperry /img/forum/go_quote.gif XP SP3? show us your taskmanager w/ the processes

Usually <20, lately is @ 21 once the startup stuff goes away (Winlogon and all that). I'll grab it once i'm at my home PC...


Quote:

Originally Posted by Ares /img/forum/go_quote.gif What do your memory usage and CPU usage at? Is your hard drive thrashing and is the LED blinking all the time?

On boot, mem usage is at about 250MB. CPU like 0-2%.. ish. Y'know on High update speed it always hops around Sometimes this idling can go as high as 4%.

HDD and LED, nope.

 

[leeperry]

on XP SP3? there's still a few tricks I could think of, but maybe you could use Camtasia to give us an overview of just HOW slow the damn thing is.

and benchmarks work fine? 3dmark/superpi/etc etc? you tried a clean reinstall+defrag, right?

 

[10068]

Defragged recently, did a Repair Install recently but it's been a few years since a clean install

Honestly I might just be getting a new computer soon. I was poking around on NewEgg and you can set yourself up with some fast crap for like 500-600 bucks these days. Crazy how cheap computers are getting. Mine was about 1500-2000$ when I built it, when you include everything including mouse, keyboard, good quality monitor, etc.

 

[leeperry]

buying a new system instead of installing a clean XP SP3, that makes a lot of sense to me!

 

[silverskull]

my xfi prelude GUI is kinda slow as well.especially when switching modes.but its not unbearable :S

 

[10068]

Quote:

Originally Posted by leeperry /img/forum/go_quote.gif buying a new system instead of installing a clean XP SP3, that makes a lot of sense to me!

lol. Well it's also a 5-6yo computer, that's part of the equation. dork

 

[leeperry]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sduibek /img/forum/go_quote.gif lol. Well it's also a 5-6yo computer, that's part of the equation. dork

and now, I'm the dork...damn you're good

may I suggest installing even more bloatware in your systray? you need one or two antivirus app, then MSN, then Yahoo Messenger, then I dunno.....I'm sure you can work your way through download.com

 

[10068]

Ohhh man don't even get my started about Toolbars. Those things are like viruses in sheep's clothing.


EDIT: Also notice how "most" major softwares these days come with all sorts of crap that you don't even have a CHOICE about installing?

Adobe AIR
iTunes' Bonjour
Daemon Tools toolbar
Java Update Scheduler
Java Quick Starter
QuickTime Task
WinZip Task
ATI Hotkey Poller

The list goes on...

 

[10068]

Screenshots.

Links:

List of Processes running from Windows Task Manager. This is after the computer has been running for most of the day, but it very closely matches how it looks a couple minutes after a cold boot.
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/841/processesf.jpg

View of the "Performance Tab" in Task Manager.
http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/496...tabtaskmgr.jpg

Full list of my Services from Administrative Tools (Control Panel). This is a cut-and-paste job so apologies if any of the display is off.
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/5476/servicesp.jpg

List of msconfig Startup items.
http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/7007/msconfig.jpg

 

[10068]

Come on lee perry respond bish! I want your input :-O

 

[iriverdude]

Crap creative drivers? I've used computers like yours, P4 with 1GB RAM and they seem incredibly slow, compared to even a AMD X2 with 2GB of RAM even doing typical windows. My brother's got a P4 with 1GB RAM.

Peak usage on my PC is now 888MB and that's just running the usual things.