Framerates bit the dust

Red_5 · Post by **Red_5** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 7:29 pm

So I played and beat the entire campaign of Halo PC with all the fancy graphics turned on, no problem. Smooth as a baby's butt.

Since monday, I can't get my Halo framerates above 9fps. Haven't changed any settings, and turning all the graphics fanciness off doesn't help.

My Norton subscription runs out in 27 days, if that matters.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 8:17 pm

was ANYTHING installed between those times?

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 8:20 pm

System specs and any recent changes you have made would help. For instance if you are using a Nvidia video card then you need to be aware of this.

Red_5 · Post by **Red_5** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 8:54 pm

No recent changes whatsoever, should have posted specs. My bad.

ATI Mobility Radion 1150 320MB, yes the drivers are up-to-date

1.7GHz AMD Mobile Sempron (or something like that)

1GB RAM

60GB hard drive

Windows XP Pro SP3

roid · Post by **roid** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:16 pm

download and run this
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysi ... 96653.aspx
It is a more powerful version of windows task manager, that breaks down all running processes into useful information. It tends to show more than the normal Windows Task Manager does.
(don't worry, it doesn't replace it, it's will only run when you manually run it)

order the list by the CPU column (just click CPU) so that the largest numbers are at the top.

See if anything other than \"System Idle Process\" is using much CPU resources.
(just as an example, my computer tends to unpredictably start up video-conversion processes that use up a lot of CPU resources and make it run hot. With Sysinternals Process Exploder i can find em real fast.)

Also, how much System Memory and HDD space do you have free?
(To check memory, goto the normal Windows Task Manager - then the \"performance\" tab)

Red_5 · Post by **Red_5** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:20 pm

Sweet. I'll give it a shot.

RAM and free space: I've got 40 out of 46GB free on my D drive where all my data is, and the RAM usually hovers around 700mb free.

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 10:47 pm

any crashes lately?

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 7:56 am

The amount of free space on your C: drive matters as well.

Red_5 · Post by **Red_5** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 3:53 pm

C: is a 10gb drive and has had 2gb free since I installed Halo... No crashes lately either. Did one forced shut down once when Finale 2006 froze...

Red_5 · Post by **Red_5** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 6:43 pm

Alright, uninstalled Norton Internet Security and that fixed it instantly.