Game/Teamspeak Lag [Resolved]
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 3:23 pm
So for the past week or so I've been experiencing a strange slowdown in all of my games and Teamspeak. If I try and alt+tab in Battlefield 2 for instance, I have to wait about 15 seconds (usually it's about half a second) and during that time anything that anybody says over Teamspeak I cannot hear.
I didn't remember installing anything odd but I did carry my computer around for a bit and subject it to a little shock so I thought that I must have disrupted one of the components. My first thought was my primary (windows install) hard drive since it seemed to be taking a long time to access these programs. I downloaded some benchmarking software and benchmarked my hard drives, RAM and CPU and everything was normal.
I then thought that I must have been infected with a virus so I ran my virus scanner on a thorough search of my whole computer (that took hours). It found nothing.
Today I decided that it must be something to do with my sound card since the only program other than games that seemed to be affected was Teamspeak. I took it out of my computer but that did nothing either.
I had basically given up (about 10 minutes ago) and decided to look through my processes list to see if there was anything new. I then saw pdvdserv.exe in the list and remembered that I had installed PowerDVD the other day.
Well what do you know? PowerDVD was the cause of my lag issues. For a commercial program it seems very poor of it to cause the amount of lag that it did. Perhaps there was some specific conflict with another piece of software on my computer but I guess I'll never know.
If anyone else has this program installed on their computer then be warned that it may cause a serious lag issue (after I uninstalled it my system was back to normal). It may not affect your system detrimentally but if you have that background process you might want to try uninstalling and seeing if your PC speeds up a bit.
I didn't remember installing anything odd but I did carry my computer around for a bit and subject it to a little shock so I thought that I must have disrupted one of the components. My first thought was my primary (windows install) hard drive since it seemed to be taking a long time to access these programs. I downloaded some benchmarking software and benchmarked my hard drives, RAM and CPU and everything was normal.
I then thought that I must have been infected with a virus so I ran my virus scanner on a thorough search of my whole computer (that took hours). It found nothing.
Today I decided that it must be something to do with my sound card since the only program other than games that seemed to be affected was Teamspeak. I took it out of my computer but that did nothing either.
I had basically given up (about 10 minutes ago) and decided to look through my processes list to see if there was anything new. I then saw pdvdserv.exe in the list and remembered that I had installed PowerDVD the other day.
Well what do you know? PowerDVD was the cause of my lag issues. For a commercial program it seems very poor of it to cause the amount of lag that it did. Perhaps there was some specific conflict with another piece of software on my computer but I guess I'll never know.
If anyone else has this program installed on their computer then be warned that it may cause a serious lag issue (after I uninstalled it my system was back to normal). It may not affect your system detrimentally but if you have that background process you might want to try uninstalling and seeing if your PC speeds up a bit.
