Win 7, I-9300, Online Games - Issues.

Until last week this lappy had the old 80Gb HD and Win XP Pro SP3. I play several online games (Silkroad Online, Battlefield Europe, Steam games) and they all played great.

After 4yrs it had some major issue last week that I couldn't recover from, so I picked up a WD Blue 250GB HD and had Win 7 Home Premuim (bought 4 copies for all the PC's here)

After much driver searching, everything works awesome on it except my games. The keep doing a Pause - Pause - Pause. I have been digging into everything, all sorts of video drivers, etc and nothing has helped. Wonder if its something with the Dell 1350 or Broadcom 440x controller. I've looked for the latest drivers from all over but nothing has helped. Surfing, Videos, Office 2007 all work great. It never crashes.

Any ideas? I tend to think its something in the network part of it. Note, my much older and less powerful desktop is running Win 7 RC and has no issues with games. (I race in several rFactor Leagues)

Also the network here is very solid, a Buffalo 54G and all the laptops connect great, and like I said - no issues gaming with Win XP before.

Thanks!

No issues in the Device Manager. I have tried all sorts of video drivers mostly from LaptopVid2go. I only get ones that mention the 6800go in the NV_DSP. Last night I installed the 195.55's. Have tried the newer .62's, older .39's and others.

Chipset is what I found on Dell. Do you have any idea of some Win 7. (or Vista at least versions?)

Avast antifrag, have it on all my Win 7 pcs. (had issues with others, happy with it)

Can you tell me about this background defrag? Hadn't heard about that one!

Have to say I'm pretty disappointed with Dell. They put almost Zero effort in providing a decent path to upgrading the OS on even 2 year old laptops. My oldest sons 1520 isn't even on their "approved for Win 7". It's got Dual Core, Vid card etc and will have no issue running it. Hell, Netbooks run Win 7. My way old AMD XP-M on nForce-2 (which nVidia didn't even support Vista!) desktop is running it great! I don't know if anyone else is any better but I will be looking. I've bought 4 pc's over the years from them. (helps I work for Boeing and I get discounts, EPP etc) I do build my own desktops..soon to start another!

This is supposed to be my casual gaming rig on the arm of my recliner in front of the Home Theater. It shouldn't have any issues with these older games..just need to get to the bottom of it!

PS, found a cool little laptop Sata HD enclosure on Newegg, its pretty slick (if cheap) and even comes with a leather case. Allowed me get all that data off which was a real good thing!!!

No, I pop up the Task Manager often but never see any high usage rates. Its bugging the heck out of me...LOL!

With Silkroad, it often takes a long time to log into the server (normal) and you can see the clock stop and start over and over again. If you get into the game, massive pauses make it unplayable.

In Battlefield (worlds largest game map..all of Europe in 1/2 scale) I get in and while not as bad I still get constant mini pauses. And the timing is not constant meaning the length of the time between or of the pause itself is not constant.

When I open up Defrag I see nothing about run on Auto except it's scheduled to run at 1am every Wednesday. That shouldn't be an issue....

Did that, and installed a newer Intel Chipset Inf....still no better. I wonder if it's something in Network protocols and settings...I'm not real strong in that area. (and yes, I've opened up all the required ports in the Firewall etc..)

Have to run out with the wife (Hooky day) and do some shopping (Xmas..4 boys!) back later to do some more trouble shooting!