Constant Hickuping

After about a minute or two, my system hickups, and has to catch up with itself. What i mean by this, is it stutters, slows down, then has to kick in to catch up, and it just makes gameplay really choppy. Anny suggestions?

 

What are you running? Did you install any new software recently. If I were you, I'd clean out the junk and registry (use ccleaner and registry mechanic respectively) and scan for spyware/viruses. If that doesn't help, you could always reformat.

 

Good question. If you've made any recent changes to your computer (immediately preceeding the beginning of your problems), try undoing them.

 

this happened right after i installed vista. I popped in a CD and opened it with WMP, and it just started happening, then i took the CD out. And it continues.

 

Just installed Vista . . . complete install or upgrade? Either way, I've read about a lot of Vista glitches, IIIM3. Might be driver incompatabilities with the OS or maybe not enough RAM in your system - Vista seems to need quite a lot. Also, your problem isn't quite clear to me. Are you having problems only during game play, or with your system in general? If only while playing games, I'd think you probably have a driver problem between your video card and Vista, especially if all was well prior to installing the new OS.

 

NO it does this in everything. And i did an Upgrade.

 

Is it overheated? driver issues? Compatibility issues with software?

 

If you want to play games decently, "upgrading" to XP is the best possible solution for now.

 

Yes, however, after 1 year maybe, all Windows XP will be obsolete in retailer stores and online purchasing, it'd be all vista.

 

Sounds like overheating, cause sometimes when you're overheating the gpu or whatever will slow/stop itself for a second to get the heat down. .

 

As for the problem, physically go and clean out the fans and vents that you can get to with Q-tips and compressed air (cans or compressor).

Also, make sure that you have the latest drivers and even BIOS (which has shown to improve thermal controls in some similar notebooks)

And this would also help:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=60416

XP will survive for at least 2-3 more years in retail stores

and the XP support should go on for at least 10 more years

Vista is great for the typical consumers... but has been admitted (by Microsoft) to be a failure in the eyes of businesses/corporations... as well as enthusiasts/gamers.

That is why Dell [and some other OEMs] still have the option to buy a system with XP rather than Vista.... they pretty much threatened Microsoft to bring XP back.

Vista needs to seriously fix the kinks and improve the performance & compatibility before it can truly call itself a good XP replacement.

 

would you be able to do a clean install with that MS Vista key + a full vista disc?

 

Im using the I8kfan thing, and my computer is never over 30 degree's C, and I put liquid cooling in my lappy (school project) but this was about a year ago, so it would not cause this.

If you want to lend me 200 bucks, i will try that. If not, that would be a big negativo.