Re: graphics problem after blaster, can anyone help?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mass) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Hello there, I am running a laptop with a 1.7ghz P4, ATI Radeon
> Mobility M6, and 256mb RAM. I have been playing basic 3D games for the
> past year such as Half-Life, Quake1,2,3 etc, and have had no problems
> at all, smoothe and fast running as you would expect. Then I got the
> blaster worm, and welchia, and having removed them completely, patched
> and updated XP, and updated my anti-virus etc etc, i have had major
> problem with graphics which im not sure is related or not. When
> playing a game, (online or offline) it runs smoothly for abou 50
> seconds and then gets a slow down and everything goes jerky. It goes
> back and forth from smoothe to jerky throughout and I cant seem to get
> it sorted. It seems like something may be clogging up the processor
> but I dont have any suspicious processes running. I have since
> formatted my computer.....and like a fool I plugged my broadband back
> in and got the welchia and blaster worms again!! They are gone now but
> the problem is still there. Can anyone help? sorry about the long
> post, im new to this.

with the info you've given, this is my assessment.  It sounds to me
like what's happening is related to your antivirus program, which can
oftn be configured to scan incoming and outgoing files.  If you have
it set to do both of these most antivirus appz will hog the processor
and can be very sparratic the way you describe, if the games you are
playing are actually writing to files at about the rate your system is
lagging.  Try disabling the antivirus just as a test, and run your
game.  If your game runs smoothly check all your antivirus settings
and re-enable the program.

if this does nothing, you may want to post a bit more info about your
system, including the currently running processes.  i had a server app
kill my framerate on games once, and that's on a 2.6ghz with a
geforce4 card, playing a game over 5 years old.  after killing the
process, all was well.

good luck
liam