It appears my computer is going downhill fast. First of all there is the lagg issue when some applications sometimes is allmost unuseable due to it lagging too much. I've had that with DoW:Soulstorm and with Gothic. I've encountered that I hardly can start those games because of them loading so slowly (a screen that normally took 10-15 seconds took minutes all of a sudden on Gothic 2)!

The other problem is the occasional freeze. It's most common when I play Warcraft 3, but it has allso happened when I've played Gothic 2 (once). What happenes is that my game freezes all of a sudden. Alt+tabbing and waiting have helped, then I've simply gone out to windows after a minute or two. The last time the game started displaying weirdly after a minute (the mouse was displayed as a green square with white lines drawed like a # in it, and half the screen blacked out), Gothic 2 allso had some minor graphic problems when it happened there, but that might have to do with how it deals with alt+tabbig (I get similar problems when I alt+tab).

Anyway, any theories about what might cause this (especially WC3 is starting to be a pain due to me dropping a few minutes into game, which sucks in a game that requires you to be in game for at least 40 minutes) and what can be done about it?

Oh, I've allso had problems with Windows Media Player and WC3 (only started a few weeks ago). The problem is that the game starts spikeing like mad once I've played through a playlist or when I open a new playlist.

Übereil

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