when i play games my comp lags like crazy... what would make it not lag? would i have to buy a new graphics card? or something can someone tell me what would help my comp not lag when i play games
You might wanna check if you have enough RAM.
For Windows XP/2000 Systems I recommend a minimum of 384MB of RAM and strongly recommend 512MB of RAM. 256MB is not enough and Windows will try and use ALL of it so if you try and run Waracraft III on it and then close, it will take some time for windows to swap info in and out.
For Windows 9x/Me sustems I recommend a minimum of 192MB of RAM and strongly recommend 256MB of RAM. This is because Win9x/Me systems require less RAM to sustain operations.
Or what you can also do is check your internet connection. For example if you have broadband but share it by using a router, other people might cause some periodic lag since they're using the internet too.
Operating System System Model
Windows Millennium Edition (build 4.90.3000) 00101680 7920 15405300051270 2
System Serial Number: 9507HPPAV3
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
900 megahertz Intel Celeron
32 kilobyte primary memory cache
128 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: Trigem Computer, Inc. Cognac
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies LTD 2.09 04/14/01
Drives Memory Modules c,d
30.00 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
14.56 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
LOL too much info. But it'll do
But anyway, look. Basically, a Celeron 900MHz is the potential cause of the problem.
Celerons are budget CPUs. Essentially, they are 86ed Pentium III CPUs. They have like 4 way assosicative addressing compared to the Pentium III's 8 way (reduces performance about 33% or so) and their L2 cache is havled. Meaning more performance bottlenecks.
2nd, Windows Me = Bad bad bad!
3rd, 128MB of RAM is the minimum for Warcraft III. There's your main problem.
I would suggest getting 256MB of more RAM or 128 at the least. You should see performance increase dramatically. Oh, and it owuldn't hurt to upgrade your OS and CPU sometime... especially OS, Windows Me sucks. Period.
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