Asus z71v gaming issue

Hi, I've been having problems when I play games. It would lag very often. For instance, when i'm playing cs or cs:s it was be smooth for like 7 secs and then a little lag and choppy-ness and then smooth again and it will continue like that as long as i'm playing. This also happens when i'm play quake3 or even quake2 but it happens not as frequent in quake2. But games like starcraft, it will run fine. I was wondering if anyone else has any issues like this and if it is fix-able. This has been happening since day 1 and I've tried windows updating and updating and using various nvidia drivers.

 

This is most likely an issue with your ram or hard drive. Since SC is an ancient game it shouldn't really need to load stuff off your hard drive as much so that may explain not lagging. Quake 2, even though it is old, it does need to load maps pretty frequent.. Still you shouldnt lag on a 9 yr old game.

Can you post your specs on u r Z71V, including ram brand and HDD RPM.

 

When i bought the laptop everything was installed already so i don't know what brand the ram is unless there is a way to check the brand without look at the stick itself which i don't know. About the harddrive, it's a 80 gig 7200 rpm.

 

find a program to benchmark your hard drive, defrag it and search for error clusters.. If you find nothing bad, try gaming again after the Defrag. It definately should improve stuttering.

When you bought the Z71V, was it stuttering initially?

 

i'm running memtest86 right now to check the ram. i'll defrag it after but i don't know how to benchmark. It was acting like this when I bought it initially but I didn't know back then if it was a software or hardware problem but I still have about 2 months left on my warranty.