Long delay when quitting games to desktop! HELP!!!

[WeaponX]

Whenever I quit a game, my computer will lag for a good 20 - 30 seconds while it rebuilds the desktop. WHY?? I think I need more RAM, but that doesn't make much sense since I always have a good 50 MB free when I play games like CS. But when I quit, I have to wait. In sandra, my RAM benches about 400 MB/s less than what it should bench at. I'm running Windows XP Professional btw. Help please!

 

[stompah]

hey guys this is a blatent bump help him out!

 

[XprincoX]

yea this is a very strange occurance with cs... a couple my friends systems seems to lag very badly when they try to exit. Im guess it would have something to do with the video drivers?

 

[bdf24]

I've had the same problem with different drivers set's before. I've also fixed it by reinstalling window's as well. Probobly could be a number of things. Have you run defrag lately? A fragmented HD can cause this as well.

 

[WeaponX]

I'm running Det4 27.4s I think. I defragment my HD and run full Scan Disk about once every week or two. So I don't think that's the problem. I'm really thinking it's my RAM but I'm not sure at all.

 

[bdf24]

You can try adding ram to see if that fixe's it. But I really think there's something else going on. I ran 256 megs of PC2100 for a long time. I don't remember it ever taking that long to exit a game. Sound's like there may be a lot of HD swapping going on. Or window's is having a hard time flushing out your ram.
I usually just end up reinstalling if I get a glitch like that I can't fix.

Do you have all your processes dissabled that you don't need? And do you have all the pretty little feature's disabled in XP? This will help free up a lot of system resource's and may help you out.

 

[Matthew1001]

How much RAM do you have? I have 480 MB and I am fine playing Medal of Honor.

 

[elBogg]

if you check out his sig, you'll see he has 256 mb of ram . . . anyway, like bdf24 said, all the eye candy can use a lot of ram . . . i like to have 512 mb total when i'm running xp, myself. it just seems to run smoother . . .

 

[Matthew1001]

Sorry, my bad. I don't read signatures.

 

[elBogg]

well, geez, what good are the sigs, then . . . you think they're there just so we can brag about our wonderful overclocking prowess and make flippant remarks and humorous quotes?!? hyuck . . .