Nick601

ok the windows patches i have installed are: Windows 2000 SP3 Windows 2000 Hotfix (Pre SP4) See Q324096 Windows 2000 Hotfix (Pre SP4) See Q324380 Windows 2000 Hotfix (Pre SP4) See Q326830 Windows 2000 Hotfix (Pre SP4) See Q326886 Running Direct X 8.1 for win 2k i assumed you meant windows patches??

Ok heres an update!! I have tried a different graphics card in my system and the frameskips still occur i have taken out ALL other internal hardware (soundcard) and the frameskips still occur with the exact same system setup the frameskipping does NOT occur on windows ME As far as i know the frameskipping does NOT occur when windows is starting up (when the small dialogu box is on the screen displaying windows 2000 starting up, preparing network connections etc) The skips only seem to occue when the desktop icons appear and the task bar. I have tried disabling USB and no change, i have installed service pack 3 and no change! Reinstall windows??? - even though i have tried this before and it seems to keep on happening!

ok i have disabled USB and no change i have tried to find the AGP arpeture size in the bios but can only find "Graphic Win Size" ??? thats running at 64m I have noticed that my graphics card and sound card are both sharing IRQ 11! it does say that there are no conflicts though?? should i still change it over?? By the way some additional information the frame skips are as frequent as the system CPU and memory monitor that run when you press ctrl alt delete and click on task manager then click on performance. I have tried stopping the cpu usage monitor etc but the skips still carry on My motherboard is a K7S5A AMD board - doubt that will help at this stage lol! thanks

i have used windows ME and XP on m system before, ME the frame skipping does NOT happen but on XP i have the same problem, ill try the driver links and the 4 in one drivers too thanks again. i did try and turn off the ATI additional functions that ship with the software and i also turned down some of the graphics effects in windows but it still did not solve the problem

ok thanks for that ill give it a try tomorrow im off to bed now getting l8 over here!

yeah been using windows for ages just wanted to make sure what u were meaning, do u think disabling standard windows fretured will help too like animated menus etc??

ok thanks for that i think my drivers are up to date, i have heard ati have a bad support record!! when you say features that come with ati cards what do u mean?? anyone interested in an ati radeon 7500 lol!!

first of all sorry for the long post and the fact i put it in more than one forum i do mean skips frames and lags yeah ill check the active desktop but i think its turned off not sure what else to try