4GB Ram
Nvidia Geforce 9500 gt
AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 250u processor (2 CPUs), ~1.6 GHz (not the best but it gets the work done)
And basically I used to be able to run pretty high end games with minimal lag, I could run Dragon Age Origins on highest settings with perfect FPS. The problem recently is that just out of the blue ALL my games lag, even games as simple as Minecraft start to lag after a few minutes. I tried to open my computer and take out the graphics card and RAM to clean it out and reinserted them and still no luck. It seems when I go over a certain amount of memory on my RAM it just basically breaks and I get like 5 FPS. On games like Dragon age Origins, TF2, Dead Rising 2, Dead Space, etc. (only ones I've tried) just instantly start out with horrible frame rate, and they even slow my entire computer down so much that my mouse lags. I'm unsure of what the problem is here, I've updated my drivers and have done as much as my knowledge allows me to do. I go to dxdiag and it still detects the 4gb ram and the graphics card so I can assume they're both fine, and it has no errors or anything of the like.
If you don't want to read all that, basically my computer runs slow for no reason and I need to find a solution. I've googled a lot but all I find is "Incompatibility" but the games USED to be just fine on this exact computer with these exact specs, it seems now I can only play flash games without lag, oh the horror. My browser is just fine, and nothing except games seems to be bothered by this, but I think it has to do something with RAM usage. So has anyone seen this before? Is this a common problem or did I do something wrong? And no it's not a virus, I reformatted because I was intending to reformat and this gave me a reason to, and the same problems persisted.
tl;dr Computer bad, need help. :VComputer randomly starts lagging on ALL games, good specs, Windows 7 problem?
Could be bad RAM, could be a the graphics card starting to go, could be overheating... Might even be your power supply failing to deliver enough juice and the card automatically downclocking itself to compensate.
Have you blasted the fans clean with compressed air (on both the 9500GT and CPU coolers)?
I'd definitely run a temperature monitoring program to see if things change dramatically when your framerates fall through the floor.
It could simply be that with updates to the game (and windows itself), your hardware is starting to struggle, although I wouldn't expect such a dramatic change. A 9500GT certainly isn't great for any of those titles, but is should be fine at medium settings.
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i have the same processor as you and the same problem. i would try the compressed air thing and hose it down.
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Computer randomly starts lagging on ALL games, good specs, Windows 7 problem?You have been using Windows 7 all this time or what do you mean not bad for its time as in you had xp on it when the games played right.
The only possible way to deal with such kind of lag is to add hardware and software capacity of your system. You should get a better Graphic Card and download Reginout to sort out this issue. A powerful system should be less laggy and one can enjoy gmaes much more.Computer randomly starts lagging on ALL games, good specs, Windows 7 problem?
Those are NOT good specs.
A 9500 gt and an athlon x2 at 1.6 GHz is not decent at all.
You may want to try to upgrade. Games get patched to get better graphics, so their hardware requirements rise.
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