just FYI the minimum requirements for a game and the recommended requirements are sometimes just wishfull thinking by the game manufacturer… would you run windows xp on a pentium 233 / 64M Ram / 1.5G Hard drive? http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/upgrading/sysreqs.mspx

Try investigating the game in one of the Gaming Magazine reviews and you will probably see what they recommend as to what you need to make the game playable.

I’d suggest updating the graphics card.

1. Your best bet is to make sure nothing besides your game is running. Next, run your game.

2. If possible (and you should be able to do this), do an ALT-TAB to get your fullscreen game to minimize.

3. Next, run taskmgr.exe (you can type taskmgr in the run box or right-click your taskbar and choose Task Manager) and sort the running processes by CPU.

4. Watch and wait for a process to suddenly run even if it runs a split second. Wait some more and confirm that the same process is doing this.

Hopefully, you’ll have an idea what that process is. If you’re not sure, run a search on the process with Google and see if it’s a known virus/malware/spyware process.

Usually when a kink occurs during gaming or while using some other process/memory intensive app, this is what is causing it.

HTH,

Harlin Seritt
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