Civ III very slow

[spotts]

Hi,

I'm having a problem with CivIII in that it is very, very slow, at times almost freezing. I believe that this problem is probably caused by my computer as opposed to the game, however, the problem is most apparent when playing the game, so that's why I'm starting here. I would especially like to solve the problem before getting CivIV and noticing the same thing.


Having a problem where my CPU maxes out quit frequently when it never used
to. It does it especially with games (games that have requirements of like
PII 300, where I have a P4 1.7Ghz), but also with programs like
GoogleWebAccelerator, Limewire, certain websites requiring Macromedia.
When it maxes out, my system almost locks up, slowing to a crawl.
I recently reformatted my computer from scratch, removed all startup programs except Microsoft ones through
MSCONFIG, have no viruses (as per Norton), have no spyware (as per AdAware).
I did a benchmark test on my CPU which showed no errors, disabled Disk Indexing, and downloaded
and installed Intel Application Accelerator. I have no idea why it would
hover around 90% with these programs when they really shouldn't be hogging
all those resources and it never happened before. Running XP Pro SP2. Any
suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I know that "slowness" of a computer is a common, difficult to diagnose problem, however, I think that there is something very wrong with my computer. Don't know if this will help, but the fan on the PC is much louder than it was before.

Thanks

 

[Genocidicbunny]

The fan is probably louder since it has to run faster to keep the system cool. Can you post a screenie of your task manager>processes screen. It might be that one program is hogging the resourses or that there are too many of them..


Also, let me be the first one to welcome you to CivFanatics