a computer problem
I have had a problem that I would like to know if anyone else has experienced.
Shortly after starting to play CSI I noticed that my computer was slowing down. Even when I played other games like Freecell the mouse pointer would freeze up for up to a minute. When I went to shutdown the computer it would take forever - the worst was nearly an hour! The computer got slower and slower until it was a pain to use because the mouse was freezing up every few seconds.
I talked to a friend who offered the suggestion of getting rid of the last thing loaded on to the computer, so, even though I still had 1 game to go, I unloaded CSI. I then re-booted the machine and thought 'this hasn't worked' because it took 20 miniutes to shut down - but - since then I have not had any mouse freezes or slow runnning and it now does a shutdown in a few minutes as it used to.
Is this a coincisdence or was it something from the CSI game that caused it?
Shortly after starting to play CSI I noticed that my computer was slowing down. Even when I played other games like Freecell the mouse pointer would freeze up for up to a minute. When I went to shutdown the computer it would take forever - the worst was nearly an hour! The computer got slower and slower until it was a pain to use because the mouse was freezing up every few seconds.
I talked to a friend who offered the suggestion of getting rid of the last thing loaded on to the computer, so, even though I still had 1 game to go, I unloaded CSI. I then re-booted the machine and thought 'this hasn't worked' because it took 20 miniutes to shut down - but - since then I have not had any mouse freezes or slow runnning and it now does a shutdown in a few minutes as it used to.
Is this a coincisdence or was it something from the CSI game that caused it?
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Something that can cause this sort of thing all of a sudden is adware, spyware, or a virus on the computer. If you haven't already, do a scan with your virus protection and programs like AdAware to try to track down anything like that. You might also try defragging your hard drive and doing a disk check.
Also, it could be that the hardware is going bad and installing CSI is a coincidence. I'm afraid I don't know enough about hardware and what happens when it fails to have any specific suggestions, but maybe someone else will recognize the symptoms...
What are your computer's specs?
Thanks for the reply. I did a virus scan and it found a couple of ad-wares on the pc. I was also getting an error message when it tried to shut down about ccApp.exe not responding. Investigation of the Mircosoft site led me to believe it was a problem with Norton Anti-virus, so I removed it. I now get messages about mmkeybrd.exe not having a disc in the drive, but at least this doesn’t stop it from doing a shutdown in a reasonable amount of time.
It runs faster too. I haven’t as yet tried loading and play the game but that will be the next test I suppose.
Maybe the game was clashing with something in Norton?