I've got a question...in game play every so often my game seems to lag.. its smooth the rest of the time and then every once in a while it almost catches itself. Just wondering if there's anything I can do?

Static

Static,

There are a bunch of things you can try, the hard part is tracking down what is causing it, and it is hard because it can be a ton of things.

First:

Reset your cable modem and router
Make sure your wireless devices are not on (example...the Wii once configured will use your wifi connection even with the power off)
Make sure your machine is not overheating (check CPU temp, video GPU temp etc - Clean out the dust bunnies in your machine!)
Run a speed check, are you getting a fast signal or are you suddenly seeing slower speeds
Turn on the FPS monitor and lag-o-meter in the game....where do you see the spikes?

I was dogged with similar problems recently, found the Wii was using my bandwidth, as soon as I unplugged it, the speed and smoothness in the game was back. Turns out my Wii was downloading the weather, system alerts, updates etc and just checking the web for stuff). Frustrating.

Good luck!

Bernard

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if it is popping up at regular intervals, it may be some other program on your computer that is accession the 'net or using more of your computers resources.  maybe windows account settings, or possibly an antivirus program updating or checking?

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if you are running vista or windows 7 with a wireless network there is a feature called network discovery which basically searches your network for new devices about every 5 mins if this sound like you problem pm me and i'll send you the info to solve this issue

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yeah... the lag is at regular intervals...
and im using vista with a wireless connection...
however my network discovery settings are set to off/?

well thats funny you can only disable it using a cmd command and it will not allow to reconnect untill it re-enabled so if you have a week signal it not very useful

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the network discovery was in vista?

yes

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It would probably help if you posted your computer specs. With the lag your describing it could be A LOT of things and by letting us know what your running will help us to utilize all of our thought process into helping you quickly and thoroughly.

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