good day everyone.
A friend of mine has an issue that has me guessing two answers.
His computer of recent and with no warning began lagging and seriously freezing every 1 – 2 minutes of game play. On doing some tests, we saw that the computer was running out of memory cause the severe lags. (which never use to be a problem before.)
Another symptom was that the graphics and textures were totally messed up in some games. In Counter Strike Source, I played by my self with no bots. I ran around looking at the ground. Seems to be working fine. As I focused horizontally, the lags began. Lag also came when I tried to chop a piece of wood. As it broke, the computer froze for a while, then regain consciousness.
Now, instead of believing that there was a faulty memory, my focus was on the graphics card. Its a Nvidia, Geforce FX 5 series….
Another note:
After stressing the processor heat sink is cool and blows cool air (not hot).
The memory is warm… not hot
but the heat sink on the graphics card is BOILING! (it doesn’t have a fan.)
I more suspect now, the problem to be the graphics card. And that the Memory and processor is trying to compensate for the G-card’s fault. Any one has any advice or suggestions? Or a diagnostic tool to test.
I will try to use another G-card to test once I get one. (AGP cards hard to come by these days.)
