used to work fine, now bad lag on startup screen

[Severencir]

i installed on my gf's computer a while ago, and played a few games with her went perfectly fine. then a few days later it started giving very skippy lag on the main menu and in game

intel core 2 quad Q8200 @2.33ghz (4 cpus)

8192MB DDR2 ram

Nvidia GeForce 9500 GS

tried forcing gpu

tried lowering all graphics settings

had minimal success changing res to 680x480 (i think, whatever the lowest resulotion available in the games settings is) at lowest graphics, but i can't have her play like that, and it still was a bit laggy

all drivers updated

directx 11 up to date

[Severencir]

even tried a system restore, and no luck

[Severencir]

bump

[Afevis]

I'm assuming that you deleted the Xinput1_3.dll you downloaded from a third party site before you installed directx, correct?

Honestly I'd recommend that you update your GPU regardless. It's around 6 years old now and had trouble running vanilla UT3 on high at a medium resolution. Playing modern games on it will be a challenge.

[Severencir]

long before, and i plan to update that gpu eventually, but funds are tight and i can't afford to spend more than $50 right now, which wouldn't be enough

my main rig is a GTX 650

anyway, is there anything i can do to get it working to hold me over to that point?

[Afevis]

What's your OS? Windows 7?

[Severencir]

yes

[Afevis]

..\Renegade X\Binaries\Win32\UDK.exe

Right click, properties, and under compatibility check off disable desktop composition. This should help performance a little.

If you're running steam as well, I'd recommend doing the same for GameOverlayUI.exe in the steam folder.

[Severencir]

yeah... no... i even went so far as to install a second fresh partition of windows 7 to check if it was a system issue, and had no luck... i guess between then and now the computer just decided to stop trying... have a new gpu and psu coming in the mail, thanks for your help though