Sudden Fraggyness??.. help...

[Commando]

I'm a BF2142 addict.

Suddenly it feels as if I've lost about half the speed I had. The game is fraggy and it frustrates me to death. Here's why it's so frustrating:

- It has been running super fast and smooth in the past.
- I didn't change any settings.
- I have the latest video driver.
- My ping is still great within the game avg 35 (lower is better right?)
- I defrag and optimize all the time. I use CCcleaner and RegSeeker.

Here are my questions:

- Could I have damaged the CPU slightly and not suffered a big failure? I had my Pent D 3Ghz over clocked to 3.5.
- Can anybody think of anything else.

My specs:
- Pentium D 3ghz
- 2 gigs Corsair RAM
- Nvidia 7600 GT

Thanks everybody. I just thought I might be missing something simple.

[xRyokenx]

Try defragmenting your hard drive.

[Spawn-Inc]

how long have you been ocing that proc? what are temps like?

it's possible you have become a bit unstable if you have oc'ed for some time now. i have heard over time it gets harder to oc.

[Greco101]

I'd check temps, make sure everything is seated properly and make sure nothing is auto-downloading/installing.

[Crazy Buddhist]

Be sure you have no malware infections. Run as many scans as you can. Adaware, Spybot, Windows defender, your antivirus, trend housecall, Gibson research "Shields Up/Probe my ports" (http://www.grc.com).

Some crappy bit of software trying to pimp your connection would easily result in this kinda thing happening.

Matthew

[Commando]

Thanks everyone. I'm gonna go back into research mode and look at everything again.

The temps never got too hot.
I'll run all my Mal Ware aps again.

Thanks a bunch.

[jdbnsn]

You would likely see a higher ping than that if it were from malware. What is your memory situation? I am guessing your RAM hasn't changed but how about hard drive space? I have had things slow down when the drives get fairly full before. Have you tried uninstalling/reinstalling? And of course, there is always the fix-all reinstall windows. It may sound silly over one game but hey, we're talking BF here.