Zed,
Try uninstalling and reinstalling the latest drivers of your Video card.
Windows probably has some of these files mixed with the ones which came with
your video card. I had the same issue after I installed service pack 2, and
it is better. still not the same as before but a definite improvement. The
biggest problem is uninstalling the drivers and files for your Video card as
win XP will reload those as soon as you restart. (unles you can hit cancel
when it has new harware detected. If you have a ATI or Nvidea Video card
there is a small utility, which will clean out all the old files of old
drivers. It is called Driver cleaner and you can get it at
http://www.drivercleaner.net/. Download the latest drivers of your video card
and follow the instructions in the readme file closely.
Hope that this will help.
"Zed Perkins" wrote:
> Ok I recently installed windows Service pack 2 into my
> state of the art gaming machine. And after doing such
> there is a considerable drop in performance. I also game
> alot my favorite lately is City of Heroes, when I first
> log on and play there is a minor frame rate problem
> nothing major, but as the time passes the frame rate
> degrades to the point where i feel like I'm on dialup
> again with major lag. So I goto system restore to remove
> the update by setting my computer to the day before I
> installed the service pack and it won't restore. Anyone
> have any ideas on how to fix this, and also why system
> restore doesn't work to remove sp2. You think microsoft
> would test this pack on video game play but obviously they
> didnt. I would highly suggest not installing SP2 if you
> game alot.
>
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