Game got slow suddenly?

hmm..

Well i had a game that i didnt run for about a month or so, and now today i ran the game and found that it is running slow?

I have a GFORCE 8600 GT card..

Can someone help me out of how to put the game back to normal so it can run smooth?

 

You may want to post this in the Gaming forum for more assistance and provide more information about your system.

 

and you may want to say what game too.

 

Brian lara cricket 2007 <- game name

I didnt play it for long as i was playing Call of Duty 4..

When i started call of duty it said that some settings didnt match and it needed to be fixed, so i said OK. Would that messed anything up?

I run Call of Duty 4 perfectly.

 

i was just gonna ask about COD4, it runs good on the 8400?

 

maybe try reinstalling your video card drivers. do you use the ones from dells website, or do you use the modded graphics drivers?

 

Read..... ^

 

Very smooth when you set to 800x600 medium.

 

So one game doesn't work but all others do?

Is this game you're having trouble with old?

I've had trouble getting some games to play on my laptop, it's a really simple fix. Play around with the nVidia control panel settings for the game exe. Some games don't like threaded being on or extension limits or error reporting.

 

The game used to work fine, but i didnt run it for a month or so and now when i run it, it gets slow

I got 169.13 with modded INF and updated my driver, but still its slow...

 

wait... you play cricket on your computer ?

 

The title of this thread reminds me of way back in the day when I worked a well known department store that I shall not name.
I was working in the electronics department, and we had just sold out of a small shipment of computers (we normally didn't stock computers, and I was just about to find out why).
A fellow brought his near new computer back to the store demanding a refund because his computer had recently slowed down to a crawl. After trying to disuade the man, he called for the store manager, who told me to take it back no questions asked, without even booting it up (as tech support was not in our mandate).
So we took it back. We decided to see if we could diagnose the problem ourselves, so we fired up the computer. We instantly found the problem.
The HD was absolutely FULL of porn. Packed full! He had only had the thing for a few days. The worst part is he brought the thing back accompanied by his wife and kids. Imagine if we fired it up in front of them.

I'm assuming this is not the problem with the OPs computer. I was just sayin'...

 

LMFAO OMG WHAT A STORY MAN.. Wow..

You think he downloaded it all or he just got bit by a virus or something that loaded it on there by itself?

Either way.. Classic.

 

Well, my computer is not affected by any virsus or anything. Its completely fine.

I play Call of Duty 4, which is a more HIGH Graphic game, and it runs completely fine on HIGH details.

Then why cant that game run smooth?

 

try defragging

 

I have, and it does not work.

Will re-installing the game make any difference? or is it something with the graphics settings?

 

Try reinstall Directx

Try reinstalling the drivers

Try reinstalling the game

Play with the global settings in the NVIDIA control panel.

Roll back or update your video drivers.

Perform some mediocre diagnostics, such as 'dxdiag' in the run dialog and testing for errors.

If all those fail then I honestly cannot imagine what the problem is. Let's not hope or suspect a hardware issue though, quiet yet..