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Master Knight

Hello Ladies and Gentlemen.
It's been a while since I posted and I'm not entirely sure where to post this so here seems to be out of the way enough not to annoy anyone.
So here's the issue; I upgraded my PC about 6 months ago and for the most part it was running like a dream, it played everything I installed. From M&B to Fallout 3 to Crysis and all on medium or high settings.
Then I began working more and studies caught up with me so I didn't have much play time. About a month ago I had some free time so I decided to play some Fallout 3..Loaded it up and the lag was unbearable, I quickly quit and ran a system cleanup and defrag, checked and updated my drivers etc.
No significant change in computer running speed. I made sure that I had plenty of Hard Drive space and ran every virus scan I had, more defrag and only a slight speed up.
My question is how can a computer suddenly go from a dream machine to the slowest machine I own?
Any ideas on how to regain it's former speed?
System specs
OS: Windows XP Home edition.
CPU: Intel Celeron Dual core 2Ghz (Runs at approx 4GHz)
RAM: 2gig
Video: ATI Radeon 2600 HD PRO (1gig)
Any help would really be appreciated.
Thanks.
It's been a while since I posted and I'm not entirely sure where to post this so here seems to be out of the way enough not to annoy anyone.
So here's the issue; I upgraded my PC about 6 months ago and for the most part it was running like a dream, it played everything I installed. From M&B to Fallout 3 to Crysis and all on medium or high settings.
Then I began working more and studies caught up with me so I didn't have much play time. About a month ago I had some free time so I decided to play some Fallout 3..Loaded it up and the lag was unbearable, I quickly quit and ran a system cleanup and defrag, checked and updated my drivers etc.
No significant change in computer running speed. I made sure that I had plenty of Hard Drive space and ran every virus scan I had, more defrag and only a slight speed up.
My question is how can a computer suddenly go from a dream machine to the slowest machine I own?
Any ideas on how to regain it's former speed?
System specs
OS: Windows XP Home edition.
CPU: Intel Celeron Dual core 2Ghz (Runs at approx 4GHz)
RAM: 2gig
Video: ATI Radeon 2600 HD PRO (1gig)
Any help would really be appreciated.
Thanks.