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Go into nvidia control panel. Under 3d settings - Adjust image settings with preview > select Use my preference emphasizing: Move the slider to Performance.

Click Apply. Does this make any difference.

Yeah it's already set to performance

What size is your power supply?

How many processes do you have running in the background. Do you have heaps of icons in the system tray? Disable any that you don't need while playing games. Right click and select exit or change the programs not to automatically start when you start windows.

Does your monitor have a DVI connection? If so try connecting the monitor with the DVI cable.

Sadly I've tried all of that (except I'm not sure how to find out my power supply, it's just the power supply that came with the set up).

Admittedly I don't know too much about computers but I would venture a guess that this isn't a performance problem. I used to have a 512Mb RAM and I had this problem, then I bumped it up to 1.5Gb and I still had this problem (and eventually I started getting BSOD's), I then cautiously stepped down to the 1Gb RAM that I have now and I still have this problem. I also generally don't run many background programs except Norton System Doctor, but switching that off doesn't make any difference.

I should also point out that once in a blue moon (like 3 times in the last 2 years), my games do actually run without this hesistating problem. But I don't think I've been doing anything different on those times.

Sorry I'm not making this easy on you guys.

Actually maybe you should disregard that last post, I managed to get my games running smoothly last night and I noticed that it happened when the CPU usage shown on my Norton System Doctor was 0% when my computer was idle (whereas normally it's ~20%). I had turned off all of my system tray programs but I've done that before and it hasn't worked.

I also restarted and tried to replicate this but to my dismay CPU usage was back up to ~20% when idle and games were running jumpy again.

I seems to have answered my own problem! It was Norton System doctor that was causing the slowdowns. A friend encouraged me to switch to AVG and as a result all my game run as smooth as silk!

Thanks for all your help and suggestions!

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