Does your computer lag intermittently when playing games?

Question

Gaming consoles

Gentlemen, tell me about this issue - there is a stationary PC, AMD phenom, 4 cores, 3 GHz percent, 4 GB of RAM, a Radeon 56 series video card with 512 megabytes of memory, a 7200 rpm screw 32 meters cache.
The problem is this - I put the game, for example Star wars Battlefront II I start the game, the game runs normally, but periodically starts to slow down (turn-based strategy starts: ( ), this lasts for 10 seconds and then everything runs fine. The game, according to the maximum requirements, overlaps with PC resources several times " But it still gets dull. This happens in many games.
What can be? I reinstalled the operating system. I tried different versions of windows 7. I also tried different firewood. The computer does not heat up. Stress tests under load pass with a bang.
What could be the reason for this?

Answer 1

Pay attention to the HDD LED. It's probably on fire almost all the time.

Answer 2

It may be memory mismanagement. It happened when the memory defragmenter was periodically launched. Has anything like this been installed? Test on a completely clean system, not a build. If it doesn’t help, install some kind of software to monitor what the game process is specifically accessing (something like Process Explorer).

Answer 3

As an option, turn off the search index on the system, IMHO a very voracious thing and lives on its own. At the expense of 7 I will not say, but on Vista it's terribly stupid.

Answer 4

game browser > Radio button settings
for manual update and remove two checkboxes - in HL this helped with the brakes.
And here Red alert 2 slows down on a fairly fast netbook ...

Answer 5

Well, in such cases, I act extremely simply - I replace the iron until the problem disappears. This is how I find the culprit. Well, let's dig deeper. If memory - then memtest +, if HDD - then SMART / tools to check access speed, etc.

Answer 6

I had this, the reason turned out to be in the power cable of the hard drive, it moved away a little. Run some kind of disk read speed monitoring.
There may also be a problem in the PSU, perhaps at times there is not enough power.

Answer 7

check PIO mode on your hard drive. I have a problem with this in the seven, on a penguin under the Rage and Mass Effect vines they work faster than under Windows because Windows pathologically switches from DMA to PIO.