can u pls help me ... how to solve my prob? ...

desktop starting to be lagging when im playing too long! ..

what is the possible cause of this problem? ..

reply pls! ^_^ tnx!

What game are you playing? How many programs are running in the background using up your ram. Look in the system tray down by the clock and see how many can be turned off. How full is the hard drive? Maybe you could uninstall programs you no longer use to free up more space for the swap file. What is your operating system?

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just dota .. and nO alts ... nO other prOgrams are running ... im using windows exp sp 3 ... hard drive is not yet full!
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Could be SP3 causing the problem, it causes problems on many of my old machines!!

Try to defrag the drive.

How much RAM you got?

Give your fans a clean, you say it happens after a while, so could be getting overheated?

got a 1gig and a 512mb ram ... dunno if the sp3 is the problem ... even sp2 is lagging when i played long ... ill try to defrag ... thanks for reply

Your C drive is the problem. Is C where you os is? There's hardly any space left and that's where the page file would be located. It seems to me the location of the page file can be relocated to another drive but not sure. Maybe someone else here can help. You can always use more ram.

Explanation

Virtual memory combines your computer’s RAM with temporary space on your hard disk. When RAM runs low, virtual memory moves data from RAM to a space called a paging file. Moving data to and from the paging file frees up RAM so your computer can complete its work.

The more RAM your computer has, the faster your programs will generally run. If a lack of RAM is slowing your computer, you might be tempted to increase virtual memory to compensate. However, your computer can read data from RAM much more quickly than from a hard disk, so adding RAM is a better solution.

Virtual memory and error messages
If you receive error messages that warn of low virtual memory, you need to either add more RAM or increase the size of your paging file so that you can run the programs on your computer. Windows usually manages this automatically, but you can manually change the size of virtual memory if the default size isn't large enough for your needs.

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EVGA 650i mobo with Intel e8400 Core 2 Duo
4 gigs OCZ 800 ddr2 ram and 160 gig sata hard drive
EVGA GTS 250 SC - Windows 7
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yeah my OS is in C: .. what u mean is .. i need to increase the size of my drive C partition?

Yes, I think so and more ram wouldn't hurt either. Is your video on board or a separate card? If built into the mobo some of your ram is used for the video and you have less ram to run the game along with a small page file. Lets see what the others say.

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EVGA 650i mobo with Intel e8400 Core 2 Duo
4 gigs OCZ 800 ddr2 ram and 160 gig sata hard drive
EVGA GTS 250 SC - Windows 7
See my test at http://www.pcpitstop.com/betapit/sec.asp?conid=23014579

Okay ill try that .. Thanks for advise! .. i simply got 1.5gb RAM .. is that enough ? cause i assembled my PC's 3 yrs ago, ... and yes my video card is separated from mobo ... and what u think is the prob of mine?! .. cause when Im playing game (dota) then i opened Firefox, it affects the game to be lag ... what is the reason it happens?! is the C: also the prob?! the lack of its size?!

There is three things you can do. Make the C drive bigger, more ram (if you have a 32 bit version of XP then 3 gigs is max. Anymore is a waste.), newer video card. What is dota. Is it an internet based game? I looked it up but I could not find required specs to play.

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EVGA 650i mobo with Intel e8400 Core 2 Duo
4 gigs OCZ 800 ddr2 ram and 160 gig sata hard drive
EVGA GTS 250 SC - Windows 7
See my test at http://www.pcpitstop.com/betapit/sec.asp?conid=23014579

tnx mel8again ^^ ill redo my setting then ... bigger C: !!

tnx alot ... and tnx for replies ^_^ happy valentines!

You're welcome. Happy Valentines to you and yours

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4 gigs OCZ 800 ddr2 ram and 160 gig sata hard drive
EVGA GTS 250 SC - Windows 7
See my test at http://www.pcpitstop.com/betapit/sec.asp?conid=23014579

not enough resources!!!

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