Okay so today I’m playing a PC game and suddenly it starts getting really choppy. So I figure I’d restart my computer and it’d run better like it normally does. I restart the computer and it takes FOREVER to boot back up and just runs sluggish doing everything. It’s Windows Vista Home Edition on an HP, btw. I’ve never had this problem before but investigating I found out that Windows had installed updates around the time that it started running really slow. I got 3 error messages close together within 10 minutes and all of them said something along the lines of a problem with rundll32.exe and one time explorer.exe.
So I restart the computer in safe mode and it runs perfectly fine at lower resolution. So, thinking it may be okay after all, I restart and it runs slow again in normal mode. I’m thinking it’s the video driver so I used HP update to install a new driver and there was one for my card. Then, thinking the computer was hung up I restarted again and now when I try to run HP update it says that it is already updated by the computer is still slow.
So I uninstall all of the drivers associated with my video card using device manager and then reboot in normal and the computer runs smooth as ever. Really fast and responsive but my graphics are terrible and I can’t play my PC game at all. So I ran HP update again, it finds the update, then as soon as it ends it pops up with some Run32dll.exe error or whatever and then restarts automatically.
Still have a 640×480 resolution and I can’t play my game and HP update says that I don’t have any new updates.
I have no idea what to do and I’ve been working on this for about 3 hours this morning!
If anyone could help I’d appreciate it very much. Thanks!
The computer ran FINE in safe mode. Not sluggish one bit. I
Okay I changed the resolution but now when I try to run my game I get the error:
Failed to find a suitable display device, exiting program.
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1 Mickey L // Nov 21, 2008
If your virus/spyware free, there are a couple things you can do get your computer working faster. If you using your computer for normal stuff and not gaming. You don’t always need more RAM you just need to perform a few maintenance task.
First, if you haven’t cleaned your registry in a while. This is necessary. Your registry holds all the information regarding updates, installs, un-installs etc. Each one of those events produces a key. That key needs your PC’s resources and free space. So, if you clean your registry, you make more resources available for speed. Do a registry scan if you got more than 20 errors you should clean it.
http://www.delete-computer-history.com/what-is-the-best-registry-cleaner.html
2. Clear your Windows cache files, this is your temporary file. It can grow up to a large volume and stop your computer from using RAM properly. In a sense slow it down by preventing it from using free space.Here is how:
1. Quit Internet Explorer, Firefox, or any other web browser
2. Click Start, click “Control Panel”, and then double-click “Internet Options”.
3. On the General tab, click “Delete Files” under Temporary Internet Files.
4. In the Delete Files dialog box, click to select the “Delete all offline content” check box , and then click OK.
5. Click OK.
3. Manage your startups. Your excess CPU usage is due to too many programs running in the background. You can cut these to barebones by alter your msconfig. Here is how:
1. Open your Start menu.
2. Click Run
3. In the command screen type “msconfig.exe”
4. In the “system configuration utility”,click either “service” or “startup” tab
5. Uncheck all programs that your are no longer using.
6. Click “OK”
2 yad // Nov 21, 2008
Try reinstalling the game.Since the updates changed your OS, the game may have settings that don't jibe anymore. then get the latest graphics drivers again
maybe also run dxdiag in run box
was just thinking install the drivers then reinstall the game - doh
3 You // Nov 21, 2008
It sounds like the driver which you downloaded is not working correctly with your computer.
Uninstall your Video Card driver and go to the manufacturer of the computer, and find the Video Card Driver.
http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/support.html
Install the new driver.
4 big tymer // Nov 21, 2008
restore your graphics drivers again as in back to normal then defragment your computer.
tips for defragmenting: go to your computer, where you find your hard disk right click on the c drive i.e c:, then go to properties, click on the tools bar then click on defragment after it is through your computer should come back to normal
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