Sudden lags - only in games

[DragonMaster]

My brother is telling me that on my father's 6 weeks old computers, games keep crashing.

In fact, what happens is that the HDD starts running and the whole system is getting VERY slow. Anyone knows what the problem is? Can it be system restore's "periodical backups" that are very slow because games eat as much RAM as they can??

System :

Win XP SP2
Athlon 64 X2 3800+
MSI RD480Neo2-FI
MSI ATi Radeon X1600Pro 256MB
Corsair TwinX 1024 XMS
Western Digital Caviar SE 250GB

Catalyst 6.3 Drivers
ULi M1573 2.13 Drivers

 

[Spike]

It could be the indexing service perhaps, or a perhaps a RAM monitor?

 

[DragonMaster]

RAM monitor ? AFAIK, there's no RAM monitor with XP. I'm not a fan of background apps. There are only some windows and ATi services and my antivirus.

Indexing? Maybe. I use to shut down that service. Is it doing anything more than getting the search faster?

Also, I just saw I don't have the latest southbridge drivers.

 

[Spike]

Is it doing anything more than getting the search faster? - no, it's not

The southbridge drivers might help. Worth a try.

XP doesn't come shipped with any ram monitors/optimisers by the way, no no, you haven't got one that could be causeing a problem.

 

[DragonMaster]

Maybe they should help, they shifted from 2.13 to 2.2.

Mmmm. I didn't play in the Services window on this installation : RemoteRegistry was on...

 

[DragonMaster]

It seems to be something else, USB went away a few times for a week and it can't even be overclocked to 205FSB without having problems...

It runs bad at Corsair's XMS ram guaranteed timings also...