My Computer is having Strange problems while gaming!

It all began yesterday when I decided to play LotR Conquest. I began to play since I hadn't had played in a while and at first it was running as it should have. But then it began to have these wierd and frequent periods of time where the entire game would just slow down and lag severely. I didn't think much of it and assumed it was a problem with the game and left it alone.

Today I got to play another game and the same thing happens. It'll run fine for a few minutes then after that it will have like 10 minutes worth of pure slow down. The framerate goes down the drain and it lags so bad I can't play. I became pretty angry and tried another game. Exact same thing happens. No matter what game I play it will, every few minutes, slow down to the point where you can't do anything. I tried the options, I tried many things. But no matter how I tinker with the games they still refuse to give up on this random lag. Heck, I restarted my computer.

I've had this computer for more than two years and it has worked just fine up until now. I've never encountered a problem similar to this ever before. Yesterday was when it began and I have no idea why. Does anybody have any idea what the problem is and how I can fix it? My computer is an HP Pavilion a6300f PC and it's hardware definately meets the requirements of all these games. So why do they refuse to play properly now?

First thing that comes to mind is overheating.

First thing that comes to mind is overheating.

Steameffekt

It all began yesterday when I decided to play LotR Conquest. I began to play since I hadn't had played in a while and at first it was running as it should have. But then it began to have these wierd and frequent periods of time where the entire game would just slow down and lag severely. I didn't think much of it and assumed it was a problem with the game and left it alone.

Today I got to play another game and the same thing happens. It'll run fine for a few minutes then after that it will have like 10 minutes worth of pure slow down. The framerate goes down the drain and it lags so bad I can't play. I became pretty angry and tried another game. Exact same thing happens. No matter what game I play it will, every few minutes, slow down to the point where you can't do anything. I tried the options, I tried many things. But no matter how I tinker with the games they still refuse to give up on this random lag. Heck, I restarted my computer.

I've had this computer for more than two years and it has worked just fine up until now. I've never encountered a problem similar to this ever before. Yesterday was when it began and I have no idea why. Does anybody have any idea what the problem is and how I can fix it? My computer is an HP Pavilion a6300f PC and it's hardware definately meets the requirements of all these games. So why do they refuse to play properly now?

frogloe

Sorry I should've mentioned that I upgraded my graphic card. Trust me, that's not exactly the problem. I've also dusted off my interior quite recently. Virus scans show nothing. And over heating is a factor but this isn't all in one moment. It's occuring across a span of hours so unless something burnt out but....

Anyways what has been mentioned thus far is not an issue. Any other idea?

What graphics card to you have? And did these games run fine before?

Sorry I should've mentioned that I upgraded my graphic card. Trust me, that's not exactly the problem. I've also dusted off my interior quite recently. Virus scans show nothing. And over heating is a factor but this isn't all in one moment. It's occuring across a span of hours so unless something burnt out but....

Anyways what has been mentioned thus far is not an issue. Any other idea?

frogloe

I've had this graphics card for nearly a year and have never had problems with this before. This started just two days ago for no real reason what so ever. And it happens on every game, even the more old ones such as Battlefront II. I really don't see who it would happen... it just sort of does. I haven't found any explination yet.

[QUOTE="frogloe"]

Sorry I should've mentioned that I upgraded my graphic card. Trust me, that's not exactly the problem. I've also dusted off my interior quite recently. Virus scans show nothing. And over heating is a factor but this isn't all in one moment. It's occuring across a span of hours so unless something burnt out but....

Anyways what has been mentioned thus far is not an issue. Any other idea?

UltimateGamer95

It isn't that likely. A bad power supply would most likely cause artifacts or instability before slowdowns.

To OP: It would be useful if you ran HWmonitor or some form of temperature monitor while gaming. Overheating could still be the culprit.