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Title: BF1942 is startin' to act sluggish...
Post by: SSCF-LeRoy on August 13, 2004, 09:11:33 pm
... and the missions won't load. The only thing that has changed about my computer recently is the fact that I put my tower and peripherals into plastic bags in anticipation of Hurricane Charley and then put the whole system back together when the threat had passed.
Title: Re: BF1942 is startin' to act sluggish...
Post by: Iceman on August 13, 2004, 09:33:25 pm
spyware and/or heat issues. Did you take the heatsink off forsome reason?
Title: Re: BF1942 is startin' to act sluggish...
Post by: Sirgod on August 14, 2004, 10:14:57 am
That's what I was thinnking. also make sure your Cards etc. are Fully seatied in the appropriate slots.

Stephen
Title: Re: BF1942 is startin' to act sluggish...
Post by: Iceman on August 14, 2004, 10:31:09 am
OH! It could also be a power supply problem of some kind. If too low a voltage makes it to the CPU, it'll slow right down.
Title: Re: BF1942 is startin' to act sluggish...
Post by: Aldaron_Nirantani on August 14, 2004, 01:09:41 pm
... and the missions won't load. The only thing that has changed about my computer recently is the fact that I put my tower and peripherals into plastic bags in anticipation of Hurricane Charley and then put the whole system back together when the threat had passed.

I hope they were static free electronic plastic bages and not just regular ziplocs
Title: Re: BF1942 is startin' to act sluggish...
Post by: Iceman on August 14, 2004, 01:16:50 pm
That could do it too, though if you fried one component none of them would work so I doubt thats it.
Title: Re: BF1942 is startin' to act sluggish...
Post by: Sirgod on August 14, 2004, 01:40:17 pm
... and the missions won't load. The only thing that has changed about my computer recently is the fact that I put my tower and peripherals into plastic bags in anticipation of Hurricane Charley and then put the whole system back together when the threat had passed.

I hope they were static free electronic plastic bages and not just regular ziplocs
That could do it too, though if you fried one component none of them would work so I doubt thats it.

That's very true. He'd still have to do a systemic system check, by first installing CPU, Memory, and Vid Card to see IF it comes to post. then add each component to see IF It Post, IE. Modem, Hard Drive, Sound Card, etc.

Stephenj
Title: Re: BF1942 is startin' to act sluggish...
Post by: SSCF-LeRoy on August 14, 2004, 06:15:42 pm
I didn't totally dismantle my computer tower, although I did remove the harddrive. Monitor, tower, printer, etc. where put into garbage bags and stashed in a closet fer while until we realised that the storm wouldn't hit us. What's wierd is the game ran great up until yesterday. Don't know how movin' the computer around would effect it.
Title: Re: BF1942 is startin' to act sluggish...
Post by: SSCF-LeRoy on August 15, 2004, 02:52:50 pm
Update: Fixed that problem. Now I'm lookin' fer a good tool to improve my ping fer online gamin'. Any recomendations?
Title: Re: BF1942 is startin' to act sluggish...
Post by: SSCF-LeRoy on August 16, 2004, 08:55:47 am
<taps microphone> Uh, is this thing on?
Title: Re: BF1942 is startin' to act sluggish...
Post by: Javora on August 16, 2004, 05:42:28 pm
Update: Fixed that problem. Now I'm lookin' fer a good tool to improve my ping fer online gamin'. Any recomendations?


I'm not sure what you are looking for, your ping is pretty much controlled by the lines outside your house.  You could however try PC Pit Stop (http://www.pcpitstop.com/pcpitstop/default.asp) and test your whole system.  That site does a good job of testing your system and finding where the possible slow downs might be.  Hope this helps.
Title: Re: BF1942 is startin' to act sluggish...
Post by: Aldaron_Nirantani on August 17, 2004, 11:37:38 am
Also a good place to test is dslreports.com