Momentary In Game Freezing

Spyware, virus, some other process running in the background...

Sound drivers?

"Frank Jaerschky" wrote in message
...
I have a Radeon 9500 Pro that has been working flawlessly for the past 9
months or so. A few days ago, I started to sporadic momentary freezing of
up
to 1 second in duration when I'm playing games in Direct3D or open GL. I
have tried reinstalling the lates 3.9 drivers and the Omega drivers, too.
I
have tried reverting back to 3.8 drivers as well. I have also tried
re-installing DirectX 9b, and the latest VIA 4 in 1 drivers. Any ideas as
to
what could be causing this problem? Could the card be overheating? I
haven't
checked to see if the card's fan is still spinning, but tht's my next
step.
Maybe overheating? I just find it's strange that this would start suddenly
when I have made absolutely no changes or installed any new software.
System is an Athlon 2400XP, 512MB SDRAM, MSI K7T Turbo 2 M/B, and Windows
XP
Home Edition.
Thanks for any suggestions.

Spyware would be the only thing that I could think of. Norton AV reports no
viruses. I'm using the onboard sound, which has caused no problems so far.

"Phrederick" wrote in message
news:l3qCb.683158$9l5.653516@pd7tw2no...
Spyware, virus, some other process running in the background...

Sound drivers?

"Frank Jaerschky" wrote in message
...
I have a Radeon 9500 Pro that has been working flawlessly for the past 9
months or so. A few days ago, I started to sporadic momentary freezing
of
up
to 1 second in duration when I'm playing games in Direct3D or open GL. I
have tried reinstalling the lates 3.9 drivers and the Omega drivers,
too.
I
have tried reverting back to 3.8 drivers as well. I have also tried
re-installing DirectX 9b, and the latest VIA 4 in 1 drivers. Any ideas
as
to
what could be causing this problem? Could the card be overheating? I
haven't
checked to see if the card's fan is still spinning, but tht's my next
step.
Maybe overheating? I just find it's strange that this would start
suddenly
when I have made absolutely no changes or installed any new software.
System is an Athlon 2400XP, 512MB SDRAM, MSI K7T Turbo 2 M/B, and
Windows
XP
Home Edition.
Thanks for any suggestions.

"Frank Jaerschky" wrote in message
...
I have a Radeon 9500 Pro that has been working flawlessly for the past 9
months or so. A few days ago, I started to sporadic momentary freezing of up
to 1 second in duration when I'm playing games in Direct3D or open GL.

I have a PVR Kyro card that did this before . The problem was a broken fan that
led to overheating. I bet yours isn't spinning anymore.

g'day
youth

For the spyware , get AdAware 6.0 its free and easy to used. Check the
DMA options for your drives.


"Frank Jaerschky" wrote in message
...
Spyware would be the only thing that I could think of. Norton AV reports
no
viruses. I'm using the onboard sound, which has caused no problems so far.

"Phrederick" wrote in message
news:l3qCb.683158$9l5.653516@pd7tw2no...
Spyware, virus, some other process running in the background...

Sound drivers?

"Frank Jaerschky" wrote in message
...
I have a Radeon 9500 Pro that has been working flawlessly for the past
9
months or so. A few days ago, I started to sporadic momentary freezing
of
up
to 1 second in duration when I'm playing games in Direct3D or open GL.
I
have tried reinstalling the lates 3.9 drivers and the Omega drivers,
too.
I
have tried reverting back to 3.8 drivers as well. I have also tried
re-installing DirectX 9b, and the latest VIA 4 in 1 drivers. Any ideas
as
to
what could be causing this problem? Could the card be overheating? I
haven't
checked to see if the card's fan is still spinning, but tht's my next
step.
Maybe overheating? I just find it's strange that this would start
suddenly
when I have made absolutely no changes or installed any new software.
System is an Athlon 2400XP, 512MB SDRAM, MSI K7T Turbo 2 M/B, and
Windows
XP
Home Edition.
Thanks for any suggestions.

Also a good idea to run Spybot Search and Destroy. Each one
(Spybot/Adaware) seems to catch things that the other doesn't, every once in
a while.

-
Jim stood up at show-n-tell, in c8rCb.516875$HS4.3992867@attbi_s01, and
said:

For the spyware , get AdAware 6.0 its free and easy to used.
Check the DMA options for your drives.


"Frank Jaerschky" wrote in message
...
Spyware would be the only thing that I could think of. Norton AV
reports no viruses. I'm using the onboard sound, which has caused no
problems so far.

"Phrederick" wrote in message
news:l3qCb.683158$9l5.653516@pd7tw2no...
Spyware, virus, some other process running in the background...

Sound drivers?

"Frank Jaerschky" wrote in message
...
I have a Radeon 9500 Pro that has been working flawlessly for the
past 9 months or so. A few days ago, I started to sporadic
momentary freezing of up to 1 second in duration when I'm playing
games in Direct3D or open GL. I have tried reinstalling the lates
3.9 drivers and the Omega drivers, too. I have tried reverting
back to 3.8 drivers as well. I have also tried re-installing
DirectX 9b, and the latest VIA 4 in 1 drivers. Any ideas as to
what could be causing this problem? Could the card be overheating?
I haven't checked to see if the card's fan is still spinning, but
tht's my next step. Maybe overheating? I just find it's strange
that this would start suddenly when I have made absolutely no
changes or installed any new software. System is an Athlon 2400XP,
512MB SDRAM, MSI K7T Turbo 2 M/B, and Windows XP Home Edition.
Thanks for any suggestions.

--
Strontium

"It's no surprise, to me. I am my own worst enemy. `Cause every
now, and then, I kick the livin' **** `outta me." - Lit

Also, raise your AGP voltage one notch. This often helps stability problems
like this.

rms

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 21:34:37 -0500, "Frank Jaerschky"
wrote:

I tried all the above suggestions, but no help. (Although I did find an
amazing amount of spyware that I didn't know about!) I'll give the fan a
check tommorrow.
Thanks for all the suggestions.

It could also be a driver issue. I noticed this problem when I went
from the 3.9s to 3.7 (to check for something completely different). I
noticed that the 3.7s were giving me momentary freezes in games. They
were always at the same time intervals.
So I went back to the 3.9s and everything was perfectly OK!

I see you have already tried 3.8 and 3.9 (which are quite similar). I
suggest giving the 3.7s a try, it can't hurt. Oh, make sure you
uninstall the 3.9 ones before installing 3.7.


***
....the Phoenix shall rise...