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My brother was playing NFS:HP2 this morning and he said it kept jumping, like freezing.

Then just loaded up CS and now that is doing then same. it has never done it before, why is this and what can be done ?

Try getting adaware from: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ might have some spyware installed.

xp

That is indeed bizarre. What operating system?

The two games i only play are need for speed hot pursiut 2 and counter strike.

NFS:HP2

Loads up fine, select race and all that is all fine, when coming to race it has a delayed start as if it has frozen then it goes 2x as fast for about 2 seconds then to normal, it is fine for about 20 seconds then it happens again, freezes then goes twice as fast,

The game has been fine since i had it but then this started happening a few days ago.

Counter strike is exactly the same.

Describe the problem in more detail please.

Check what else is running, some software will sit there doing nothing then do something every so often that will cain your CPU and make your PC crawl for a few seconds.

Does this happen straight away, or after a certain amount of time, if it happens after a good few minutes, but stays ok before that, it could be some form of overheating problem

It is not just games thats slows down, its like when i play video or mini games on the net, it freezes like that as well,

how do i check what graphics card i have

try re-installing direct X. That might work. If it doesn't then just get all the lastest drivers for you hardware.

Re-installing the drivers would be my first port of call.

What Graphics card do you have anyway?