Hi guys...
I normally don't post in here...but I wanted to see if any of you all could help me. This has just started happening in the last month or so. I'm playing a game (Any of the EA sports games I have) and after about 5 minutes, I hear the hard drive kick on...the sound track sounds like it's under water and the frame rate slows way down. I had been able to clean some of this up by doing the "three finger salute", bringing up the task manager, and turning off several processes. Now, the processes tab and all the other tabs have disappeared from my task manager. All it shows is what program is running...and nothing else.
My computer is older...runs at 512 meg of ram...but I have never had trouble running any EA game...up until the last month or so. I have run defrag and several other "clean-up" programs on both my hard drives (I have a 15 gig drive and a 55 gig drive) several times and still nothing. I downloaded some software that allows me to go into the processes function...and I turn everything I don't need off...but it seems like the McAfee security stuff comes right back on. Could that be what's slowing my computer down?
Sorry...I'm not really much with technical stuff. My computer won't even come close to running the demo for FIFA '08...but I expected that when I read all the problems folks were having with it. It appears I have a couple of different issues going on here. Whatever you guys can do to help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
mutiger
I normally don't post in here...but I wanted to see if any of you all could help me. This has just started happening in the last month or so. I'm playing a game (Any of the EA sports games I have) and after about 5 minutes, I hear the hard drive kick on...the sound track sounds like it's under water and the frame rate slows way down. I had been able to clean some of this up by doing the "three finger salute", bringing up the task manager, and turning off several processes. Now, the processes tab and all the other tabs have disappeared from my task manager. All it shows is what program is running...and nothing else.
My computer is older...runs at 512 meg of ram...but I have never had trouble running any EA game...up until the last month or so. I have run defrag and several other "clean-up" programs on both my hard drives (I have a 15 gig drive and a 55 gig drive) several times and still nothing. I downloaded some software that allows me to go into the processes function...and I turn everything I don't need off...but it seems like the McAfee security stuff comes right back on. Could that be what's slowing my computer down?
Sorry...I'm not really much with technical stuff. My computer won't even come close to running the demo for FIFA '08...but I expected that when I read all the problems folks were having with it. It appears I have a couple of different issues going on here. Whatever you guys can do to help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
mutiger