Kronikle66
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Games will lock up for a few seconds and I'll lose complete control.
Hello. I've had this computer for about 2 years and have been using it quite constantly. I built the computer myself and use it primarily for gaming. I've played Final Fantasy 11 for 8 months on it, Doom 3, City of Heroes, Everquest 2, Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War, Half-Life 2 among many other games. I've never really had any problems until now. I currently use a Sapphire Radeon 9700 XT.
About half a month ago, however, I installed World of Warcraft. Since then I've been having occasional issues with controlling my character. About every 10 minutes or so (it was very spuratic), my character would just move on his own for about 5 seconds in the direction I was pressing and I'd be unable to control or stop it. If I try to press any buttons my hard drive starts beeping. It would only happen on times when I was actually moving forward around. I would lift my hands up from the computer and he'd still be moving around.
Anyway, I thought this was just some kind of problem with World of Warcraft, however, today I just realized this was not the case. I tried playing Half-Life 2 again today after having no problems with it before. I hadn't played this since I installed World of Warcraft. Well, the same problem occured but now in this game. I would tell my guy to move forward then to strafe left and right but I would lose control over him for a brief period every now and then. And once again my computer would beep if I tried pressing any buttons during this period.
Does anyone know what's going on? This is really annoying. Formatting is out of the picture so what other suggestions do you guys have?
About half a month ago, however, I installed World of Warcraft. Since then I've been having occasional issues with controlling my character. About every 10 minutes or so (it was very spuratic), my character would just move on his own for about 5 seconds in the direction I was pressing and I'd be unable to control or stop it. If I try to press any buttons my hard drive starts beeping. It would only happen on times when I was actually moving forward around. I would lift my hands up from the computer and he'd still be moving around.
Anyway, I thought this was just some kind of problem with World of Warcraft, however, today I just realized this was not the case. I tried playing Half-Life 2 again today after having no problems with it before. I hadn't played this since I installed World of Warcraft. Well, the same problem occured but now in this game. I would tell my guy to move forward then to strafe left and right but I would lose control over him for a brief period every now and then. And once again my computer would beep if I tried pressing any buttons during this period.
Does anyone know what's going on? This is really annoying. Formatting is out of the picture so what other suggestions do you guys have?
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I cleaned up my hard drive (deleted 12 gb) and defragged my computer. I test Half-Life 2 this morning and it seemed to run pretty smoothly with no movement errors to be seen. However, after work when I went to play WoW, I saw the problem arise again. It didn't go away. Still once in like every 10 minutes or so my character would just move in the direction I last pressed for about 5 seconds. It's not my keyboard because after I get control back, the whole screen kinda adjusts as if there were lag. But I know for a fact it's not server lag!
Ugh, this is so frustrating.
Ugh, this is so frustrating.
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Nothing's changed :( Graphics are on minumum all the way and I still get this locking up.
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Hm... I tried turning off all external programs, shutting down my firewall, my anti-virus, etc. and I can't remember seeing that problem anymore on that particular day. I wonder if the case may be that I use too much system resources on other apps.
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Well, I no longer have this problem. My hard drive died on me and I was forced to get another one. This problem is not evident in my new hard drive so I guess that was my problem all along. How do I have this closed?
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