All Games Lag

snakevenom1995

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I just re installed windows on my pc and now all of the games are lagging, And i mean all of them, even something as low on resources like sim city. my specs are as follows:

OS: 64bit windows 7
Memory:4G DDR3 ram
Hard Drive: 1T HDD
CPU/GPU: AMD Athlon II X4 645 Processor
Graphics: Nividia GeForce 6150SE nForce 430

All of my drivers are up to date (i checked) and all windows updates are installed. The games did work on this system when i first got it a year ago.
 
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Unless you think its hardware I dont think you can rule out drivers or windows update/driver conflict.
If i was you i would install windows (no updates) then install a game see if there is a problem. then install the nvideo drivers then start installing the rest and see when the problem starts. That would be my next troubleshooting route. Sorry i cant offer a solution better advice at this stage.

The other option - try a newer gfx card that...

mercuk

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As all you did was reinstall we can rule out hardware. I would start again and reinstall windows from scratch and see if you end up with the same result/issue. It does sound driver related.
 

snakevenom1995

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This is the third install of windows, i wouldn't be on here if i didn't try the drivers route.
 

snakevenom1995

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That doesn't explain why it ran the same games perfectly before, and also my laptop has a worse hardware specs and it can run things better than the nividia.
 

mercuk

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Unless you think its hardware I dont think you can rule out drivers or windows update/driver conflict.
If i was you i would install windows (no updates) then install a game see if there is a problem. then install the nvideo drivers then start installing the rest and see when the problem starts. That would be my next troubleshooting route. Sorry i cant offer a solution better advice at this stage.

The other option - try a newer gfx card that may well solve the problem since your card isnt really for gaming. HTH
 
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