Hello
Recently (for about the last 2-3 weeks) I am experiencing my framerate dropping to single-digits, almost on a 10-30 min schedule, essentially causing a slide-show, pretty much making the game unplayable for like 30 seconds at a time. I am wondering if anyone has any idea what could be causing this? I check my task mgr while it is happening & nothing else appears to be running, even though it looks & feels like a scan of some sort is running. Turning down Material Detail helped for about a day, no slideshow. Then the next day it went right back to doing the same thing after an hour of play. Virus scans & Ad-Aware show nothing. I regularly defrag my system as well.
Any ideas welcome, I'm really at a loss. Thanks in advance!
My system is pretty old but it ran this game fine on med-high settings up until recently:
Intel pentium 4 CPU 3.40 GHz (2 CPUs)
2 gigs RAM
Windows XP
NVIDIA Gforce 7600 GS
Recently (for about the last 2-3 weeks) I am experiencing my framerate dropping to single-digits, almost on a 10-30 min schedule, essentially causing a slide-show, pretty much making the game unplayable for like 30 seconds at a time. I am wondering if anyone has any idea what could be causing this? I check my task mgr while it is happening & nothing else appears to be running, even though it looks & feels like a scan of some sort is running. Turning down Material Detail helped for about a day, no slideshow. Then the next day it went right back to doing the same thing after an hour of play. Virus scans & Ad-Aware show nothing. I regularly defrag my system as well.
Any ideas welcome, I'm really at a loss. Thanks in advance!
My system is pretty old but it ran this game fine on med-high settings up until recently:
Intel pentium 4 CPU 3.40 GHz (2 CPUs)
2 gigs RAM
Windows XP
NVIDIA Gforce 7600 GS