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Framerates bit the dust

Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 7:29 pm
by Red_5
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!

Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 8:17 pm
by Duper
was ANYTHING installed between those times?

Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 8:20 pm
by Krom
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.

Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 8:54 pm
by Red_5
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

Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:16 pm
by roid
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)

Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:20 pm
by Red_5
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.

Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 10:47 pm
by Duper
any crashes lately?

Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 7:56 am
by Krom
The amount of free space on your C: drive matters as well.

Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 3:53 pm
by Red_5
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...

Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 6:43 pm
by Red_5
Alright, uninstalled Norton Internet Security and that fixed it instantly.