My computer has been acting up recently. I'll be playing something as small as cs 1.6 and it will just "pause" everything for 3 seconds or so and then come back as if nothing happens. I turned on performance monitor to see what it could be and here's what I got. If you'll notice the gap in between the lines...that's the "pause". I should say that this also happens in windows, not just video games.
Specs are in sig. I've reformatted multiple times, did WD lifeguard diagnostic for one drive and the majority of the other because it was being used for xp. SMART is all green for the hard drives. I'm thinking it could be the memory which I tested for over 15hours stable with memtest 3.3.
I'm very sure it is the hard drive because there are side effects with the pause. For example, if i'm in a game like heores of newerth, the sound will just turn off when it returns from the "pause". It will only be activated again when I re-open the game. Samething with ventrilo. Sometimes certain people will be muted, I have to re-open ventrilo.
I'm thinking that my memory is attempting to read something from my hard drive and my had drive is taking its sweet old time to give it the information causing the pause that I see which also leads to internet lag (this is what the other players tell me they see from their POV, i just look like my internet is lagging/spiking). And then somehow my sound is getting messed up with that. This is just a hypothesis and it seems to be supported by the pic from the performance monitor. It looks like just before the pause, the hard drive was trying to read something and then the memory fluctuated and everything paused.
Please help, my next move is to send the drives back to WD and get replacements, but they'll prolly run them througt the tests and tell me nothing is wrong with them. I've ran the tests, but still I think they're flawed. I should actually say I ran the MAJORITY of the tests.
Specs are in sig. I've reformatted multiple times, did WD lifeguard diagnostic for one drive and the majority of the other because it was being used for xp. SMART is all green for the hard drives. I'm thinking it could be the memory which I tested for over 15hours stable with memtest 3.3.
I'm very sure it is the hard drive because there are side effects with the pause. For example, if i'm in a game like heores of newerth, the sound will just turn off when it returns from the "pause". It will only be activated again when I re-open the game. Samething with ventrilo. Sometimes certain people will be muted, I have to re-open ventrilo.
I'm thinking that my memory is attempting to read something from my hard drive and my had drive is taking its sweet old time to give it the information causing the pause that I see which also leads to internet lag (this is what the other players tell me they see from their POV, i just look like my internet is lagging/spiking). And then somehow my sound is getting messed up with that. This is just a hypothesis and it seems to be supported by the pic from the performance monitor. It looks like just before the pause, the hard drive was trying to read something and then the memory fluctuated and everything paused.
Please help, my next move is to send the drives back to WD and get replacements, but they'll prolly run them througt the tests and tell me nothing is wrong with them. I've ran the tests, but still I think they're flawed. I should actually say I ran the MAJORITY of the tests.