Having trouble running most games

colejboe

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Aug 10, 2013
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Operating System - Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1
CPU - AMD Phenom II X4 965 Deneb 45nm Technology
RAM - 4.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 401MHz
Motherboard - ASRock N68-VS3 UCC
Graphics - Acer AL2216W (1680x1050@59Hz) 1024MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST
Hard Drives - 932GB Hitachi HDS721010CLA SCSI Disk Device
Optical Drives - ATAPI iHAS124 B SCSI CdRom Device
Audio - NVIDIA High Definition Audio

First off, I don't know much about the hardware side of computers. During game play with most games, Starcraft 2, Guildwars 2, Sims 3, even games like Minecraft and Plants vs Zombies, the whole computer lags like crazy. They will take ages to load and when they do, half of them are unplayable. Even simple things like opening multiple tabs at once will freeze my computer for up to a minute. What shocks me is that I can play BF3 at ultra and its decently playable, on high it runs great. I just don't understand that. Any help would be fantastic, Thanks.
 
Solution
First thing I would do is check the temps on the CPU and GPU and run a program to check the SMART status on the drive in case its going bad.