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HappinessMan
06-09-2008, 2:04 AM
My emachines never used to freak out and freeze briefly, but lately its become a habit. I don't know if its because its almost 3-years old, or just because emachines is shitty. My hard drive (200 GB) only had about 25 GBs left, and this is when the problem started. I was playing Halo: Custom Edition, and realized my controls were lagging, my character would either stop, the game would freeze for a second, or anything I controlled was delayed, or strung out (Example: I would press the fire button, or jump while moving, and he would continue to move, and then start firing randomly or jumping while only moving in one direction). I thought freeing up some of my hard drive would fix the proble, so I managed to get it back to about 55 GBs free. The problem is still here, but less pronounced.

It's now happening outside the game too, my iTunes freezes up while syncing, music halts suddenly, mouse stops responding. Its really annoying, and I would really love to see if there's any type of fix for this.

System Specs:

Processor Information:
Vendor: AuthenticAMD
Speed: 2188 Mhz
1 logical processor
1 physical processor
HyperThreading: Unsupported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported


Windows Version:
Windows XP (32 bit)
NTFS: Supported

Video Card:
Driver: ATI RADEON XPRESS 200 Series
DirectX Driver Name: ati2dvag.dll
Driver Version: 6.14.10.6755
DirectX Driver Version: 6.14.10.6755
Driver Date: 5 Dec 2007
Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
DirectX Card: ATI RADEON XPRESS 200 Series
VendorID: 0x1002
DeviceID: 0x5954
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
No SLI or Crossfire Detected
Primary Display Resolution: 1152 x 864
Desktop Resolution: 1152 x 864
Primary Display Size: 12.60" x 9.45" (15.75" diag)
32.0cm x 24.0cm (40.0cm diag)
Primary Bus Type Not Detected
Primary VRAM: 128 MB
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 6x


Sound card:
Audio device: Realtek AC97 Audio

Memory:
RAM: 894 Mb

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
Microphone: Not set
Media Type: DVD
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 190763 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 53588 Mb
OS Install Date: Sep 09 2007
Installed Packages: Firefox

Pingu
06-09-2008, 2:18 AM
Try downloading and running CCleaner, it tends to clean the crap out of computers and they usually run much faster.

lostos
06-09-2008, 2:27 AM
Post a task-manager screenshot of all processes running. Make sure CPU usage is displayed.

Beefynick
06-09-2008, 10:33 AM
I would clean your drive (using either the built in Windows disk cleaner or a third party utility) and then defragment it. It sounds like your drive is fragmented and is having to access files from all over the disk.

HappinessMan
06-09-2008, 3:27 PM
After using CCleaner, my computer is running like it should be. I'm defragmenting it again later on, because after leaving it on from 4:00 AM to 1 PM, it was only at 33% and I accidentally closed out. Thread Over.

Thank you guys for all the help, I was worried I was going to have to Restore it again.