New
#1
Weird lag in seemingly ALL applications.
Hi everyone, sorry my first ever post here is a technical problem. Its quite a long one so sorry about that aswell ^^;
Ok, I recently installed Windows 7 Ultimate x64. Previously I had a fantastic working version of XP but the things I have heard about Windows 7 as far as gaming goes tipped me over the edge and I finally gave in and grabbed myself a copy.
I formatted my old XP drive after backing everything up onto my other drives and set to work installing 7. Once the installation was complete I went straight to windows update and installed all the updates available, except for a few optional ones.
Now I am an avid gamer so I bought a copy of Just Cause 2 along with my new OS because I wanted to make use of my new Direct X toy. So this is the first thing I installed and got straight into playing. It worked, but not very well, which was disappointing to say the least - my PC can handle it as far as I am aware. I played to begin with on the recommended graphic settings, but everytime I looked at something that had a lot of detail, moved my camera around or even moved my character I would get this weird slowdown, not exactly FPS loss... but 'smoother'. Its hard to explain really, almost as if the game was running in slow motion but without the choppiness of normal FPS loss.
Well anyway, I put it down to a possible hardware issue and decided to try something less demanding. I have played World of Warcraft for a number of years and it always worked perfectly on XP so I set about installing that. I logged into WoW and had the same problem, very strange lag. I usually listen to Winamp while playing WoW and whenever the game lagged, my music would slow down aswell. Very odd.
By this time I was getting worried, I also like to paint so I use Photoshop on a regular basis. I installed CS4 and got to work trying that out, same issue. Really horrible brush lag/delay, not *that* noticeable at first but when you get into minute detail it becomes a huge problem.
I've made sure all of my drivers are up to date, I have installed 64 bit versions of them all, including the newest wacom drivers.
One thing I will mention though is I had an extra module of RAM lying about that I thought I would try using. I'd been using 3GB for ages so I figured 1 extra GB would be a welcome change to go with my new OS. So I installed that, however when I did I started getting the dreaded BSOD so I figured the module was faulty. I downloaded the Windows Diagnostic Bootable tool and used that to confirm my fears, the RAM was faulty. So I took it out.
While I was fiddling around with my RAM I noticed something I'd never noticed before, the timings on my RAM were all different (off the top of my head, 5-5-5-12, 5-5-5-18 and 4-4-4-12) So this got me wondering, could this be the cause of the problem? Although I had never had any issues while using them in XP.
So yea, i'm kinda stumped guys. I've reinstalled 7 three times now trying different things, wondering if maybe the drivers on windows update were the cause. To no avail.
Phew, so yea, if any of you have any suggestions or agree that my RAM could be the cause of the problem. Please help!
~Fletch
(Also, if this is the wrong forum for this I apologise. Could a moderator move it if that is the case? Thanks)