Curse

floplag · Apr 21, 2006, 12:18 AM // 00:18

ive noticed of late that when i play GW that over time the game starts running poorly and i found that explorer.exe is spiking in the background and dstealing CPU % the point of terrible lag.

the only other thing im running is Teamspeak and basic windows stuff, which is pretty spartan as i kill most of it out of habit

if i run the system without GW this does not occur

it is not the video card as a tested with alternate cards and the same thing occured

im running an ATI series card, 9800

P4 3.2 proc, 2 GB Ram

i also have tested the memory and it did not apear to be an issue

i have reinstalled the game already and it did not clear the issue

any help or ideas greatly appreciated

RTSFirebat · Apr 21, 2006, 10:36 AM // 10:36

Hi,

Remember that explorer.exe is the core part of Windows, so anything running at the time will make explorer.exe do things at the time.

Things to check are:

- Get Ad-aware and do a spy-ware check, often they take up CPU time without you knowing it

- Are you running ANY download programs like BitTorrent while playing? Just what basic Windows programs are you using, even the most basic ones can use explorer.exe time.

- How much RAM do you have on your system? If its 512MB, that should be fine, but 1GB is recommended these days.

- Make sure that your Windows Page Files are setup correctly to refect the amount of RAM you have. If you go to Goggle and search for Configuring/Tweaking Windows pagefile, you find out how to do this safely.

When I play games, only the game and TeamSpeak or Vent is only ever running, everything else including the Virus Scanner is turned off, till I'm done. My Firewall keeps my PC safe and as long as you don't have spyware or download random applications viruses won't be an issue.