Computer Running Slowly After Playing Any Game

[HughJassul™]

This problem occured about a week or two ago.

When I start my computer, everything runs at normal speed, including Steam; I can go on the internet fine, look through my hard drive quickly, etc. But as soon as I exit a game on Steam, everything goes down-hill. Internet pages take ages to load and become unresponsive after a couple minutes (but they do eventually load), it takes forever to start any programs (including the control panel, file explorer, etc.), even shutting my computer down takes a lot longer time than usual, and any games that I start after this take way longer to start up; it took 5+ minutes for CS:GO to get to the main menu when it normally takes under 30 seconds.

Shutting down the computer, letting it sit for a while, then turning it back on does seem to fix the problem, but only until I close out of a game again.

I need help...


SYSTEM SPECS:


64-Bit Windows 7
AMD A8-3800 Quad-core Processor
6GB DDR3 RAM
AMD Radeon HD 6550D Graphics
1TB HDD
64GB SSD

[The Giving One]

after you exit a game go to the task manager and check the cpu load...how is that ? you can click the header and let the highest process be listed first. How much of your total physical memory (RAM) are you using up when you play the game? How fast is your hard drive? What operating system are you using? Are any components overheating during gameplay? With respect to hard drive, are you using the ssd for steam ?

[The Giving One]

It could be that you already have a lot of programs or background tasks running in the background when you start your game and you run out of RAM while playing, causing the computer to dump the background processes into virtual memory a.k.a the hard drive's page file so that the process has enough memory. Then, after you've quit the game, the computer will purge the process from memory and start swapping the previous processes from the page file back into physical memory, a very drive-intensive process that could take a while and definitely slow down your computer depending on how long it takes and how fast your hard drive is. This is known as thrashing and can even make your desktop lock up if Windows has to swap important operating system information back and forth. One way to find out if this is the problem is to close down ALL background programs and processes before starting the game and seeing if your computer still slows down after exiting. If it doesn't slow down anymore, then you know what the problem is.

[HENBASSADO]

nice man

[The Giving One]

Please post back if you find out what the problem is or was. It can help others here that may have the same problem as you do.

[Pcnuttie]

Go to overclock forums they can help with computer issues

[HughJassul™]

When I'm in a server in CS:GO, CPU usage ranges from 35-65% and physical memory usage is 3.5-4.25 GB. Although, alt-tabbing out of the game caused my CPU load to jump to 90-100% while it was still switching.

I'm not sure if anything is overheating. I've tried Realtemp but the program doesn't seem to work. It only shows up as an error in Task Manager (no window or UI).

[The Giving One]

sounds like a memory issue to me. Are you making sure you are not running unnecessary processes while playing games ? You did not answer my questions above about the ssd and whatnot so if you can please comment on your running processes out of game in task manager and under cpu load which process is using the most memory while you are not playing ? I would recommend core temp for the cpu monitoring.

[HughJassul™]

I do have other programs and processes running while I'm playing, but they haven't affected anything in the past (2 years, roughly). I'm running Steam of my SSD, but only a few games are on it; the rest are on my HDD. The CPU load while I'm not playing is 20-40%, and physical memory around 1.5-2 Gb usage.

[The Giving One]

there are so many things you can do to help your pc run better. I will try to mention the best ones here but not sure if it will help of if you know of them.

1 Delete old system restores. they take up ALOT of room on drives.
2 I use ccleaner EVERYTIME I get off the net. I clean my pc often with this program. You can manage startup programs and clean the registry also.
3 you have to defrag a hdd but not an ssd. Never defrag an ssd.
4 do yo have TRIM enabled ?. google this if you do not know. It goes with ssds in win 7
6 You can have a paging file on that hdd. it is called Virtual Memory. google it for more information
7 Stop all those unnecessary running processes when you play games.
8 put windows 7 in performance mode instead of "pretty" mode. does all that bling really matter ?

[The Giving One]

I would start by making a HUGE paging file (virtual memory) on that hdd. Test that and see what that does for you. use MSI afterburner to manage that space heater graphics card. LOL just kidding but MSI is great for cooling cards.

[Muppet among Puppets]

Цитата допису Cadie™:

The CPU load while I'm not playing is 20-40%, and physical memory around 1.5-2 Gb usage.

Here is where the source of the problem starts.

What is using 20-40% cpu when nothing runs?

To check temperatures, read on reputated computer magazines about suggestions.