Computer problems..

[Frothyliquid]

while playing D2 i have encountered some problems with my RAM or CPU... not sure wich, maybe my vid card or my sound card... but i have getting really bad frame rates and everyonce in a while.. im not sure what my computer is doing.. but d2 totally stops loading frames.. and my HDD 'spinning' light comes on... for some reason i think that it is looking for free RAM or CPU usage. this has also happened while using winamp with visualization studio in full screen mode, this has never happened before until recently. im rather confused on why this is happening.. maybe i have some corrupted driver or somthing.. but if you could help me.. that would be great...

system specs...
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[‘°ºO*¥§âVâGê ¥*Oº°‘]

k next time before u boot up diablo go into start ,settings,control pannel then go into system then go preformance in the system window and if your resources is lower than 85% diablo has problems running..and if your resources are like lower than 85% then close that window and press ctrl..alt...del..and shut down some of the un neccesary programs runing in the background...im not sure to say which programs to end cuz all computers are diffent and if u close the wrong one u gotta restart(i found out the hard way) and if that dosent help i seriously dunno?
i hope i helped

 

[Frothyliquid]

hmmm... i'm running windows xp pro, and i don't have a performance tab. i have had other people tell me to go to the same 'spot', but i just dont have that tab

 

[Seks]

Type "msconfig" in Start Menu > Run, then click the "Startup" Tab, and uncheck all the stuff you don't want to open when you boot up. May free up some RAM.

 

[Frothyliquid]

can you explain why sometimes when im just doin anything in my computer, it will just stop and the HDD spining light comes on. however, i think it is trying to access RAM, becuase when i use a program to free up my RAM, it is doing the same thing. i know that its not using the program to automatically free up RAM, because it would do this before i got my free-up RAM program

 

[‘°ºO*¥§âVâGê ¥*Oº°‘]

oh sry im on 98 sry i dont know much bout Xp pro...

 

[Placebo]

Format HD

Get rid of the usless logins, if you don't use the Admin log on disable it for security reasons, same thing goes for guest accounts.

Press Alt+Cntrl+Delete and end task anything that isn't required to run but those programs.

 

[Frothyliquid]

erm... i never have a lot of tasks running, i do have quite a bit of proccesses running, but this computer is like 3 months old or somthing... it shouldnt matter in the first place.

 

[Placebo]

Processes are task. Ged rid of any of them that don't say SYSTEM behind them.