Literally all my games glitch up hardcore style

[yourlovewalrus]

All of my games glitch up from time to time, even the ones that are designed to be easy for your computer to run (Terraria), I'm not very good with computers, so bare with me, but when it happens, the fps will drop dramatically, and the sounds from the game distorts and (for lack of a better word) makes a sort of "dubstep-y" kind of noise. Is this steam or my computer? Or does this just happen to everyone every so often? Sorry for the lack of information, but I have no idea what I'm doing, and you guys helping me out with this would be awesome.

[Sloppy Seconds]

On everything? Just with games? Assuming that this is new and it was working prior to this.

Does this happen to everyone? No it does not. Run a virus scanner and a malware scanner to see if your computer 'has anything'. Other then that post your computer specs: CPU, Ram, GPU, and OS.

If you really are as clueless as you say you could take time to learn what to do, or you could simply take it into a Ye Olde Computer Shope to get someone to look at it for you. But I'd bet it's one of the following:
You have been watching too much porn and have gotten a virus/tojan/some other malware
You're running out of RAM and should install more
OS installation is old and should be wiped/reinstalled

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ this post is scatter-brained.

[yourlovewalrus]

Well, it's only happened so far with just games. I ran a virus scan and it didn't detect anything, and these are the specs: Model: HP Envy 15 Notebook Processor: Intel Core i7-2670QM CPU @ 2.20 GHz RAM: 8.00 GB OS: Windows 7

Porn viruses could be a problem maybe but this is a brand new computer, and I haven't done anything risky with it yet, not a single porno flick. I wouldn't know about that ram thing, so you'll have to tell me with the specs I just gave you maybe. Same with the OS thing.

[Tricks]

Try updating all your drivers and stuff?

[yourlovewalrus]

Would a brand new computer require updates? (I spent the first day of having the computer updating and downloading and all that nonsense, but it seemed more to me like it was just average copmuter stuff, not to improve the gaming)

[yourlovewalrus]

... computer. I meant computer.

[Dreakon13]

Originally posted by yourlovewalrus:

Porn viruses could be a problem

That's outstandingly honest!

Sounds like a computer problem. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del and open the task manager. See what kind of shiz is running in the background. If something is spiking and eating up resources randomly, that'd probably be the place to notice it.

Maybe get a program like CCleaner (or look up how to do it in Windows itself) and look at what is loading when you turn your PC on, at startup. Disable some of it. Unless it's a laptop, you really shouldn't need anything loading on startup unless you purposefully put it there... like a anti-virus.

(The only reason I exclude laptops is because they occasionally have hotkey/power usage software preinstalled that's kind of handy)

[tmwfte]

Originally posted by yourlovewalrus:

Would a brand new computer require updates? (I spent the first day of having the computer updating and downloading and all that nonsense, but it seemed more to me like it was just average copmuter stuff, not to improve the gaming)

Video drivers. Possibly. Half of the time, even if you do the standard Windows update stuff, the video drivers are still initial versions out of the box.

Originally posted by yourlovewalrus:

... computer. I meant computer.

Edit button. Top right hand corner of the post.

[PentaPenta]

:yourlovewalrus: Just to let you know, if you hover your mouse over a post, a edit and delete button will apear.
The edit button is especially handy.

[sos151]

all my games are really glitchy how do you fix it

[cinedine]

Originally posted by sos151:

all my games are really glitchy how do you fix it

Make a new thread in the game forum and describe what you mean with "glitchy". Also include your system specifications (Title bar menu on the client -> Help -> System information)