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Hi, I formatted and reinstalled Windows XP a few hours, thinking that it would solve this problem of mine. It started 2 days ago out of nowhere. The first time it occured was while I was playing RF Online and it started jumping annoyingly. I noticed the FPS counter (FRAPS) kept dropping from 60FPS to 55FPS and then back, and it does this ever 5 seconds or so. I thought it was a graphics problem. Then while using Windows as normal, I started dragging some windows around randomly in circles and found that it was skipping at the same rate too. If I play a video or audio file, the video/audio doesn't skip though.
When I first reinstalled Windows, the problem didn't occur because dragging around a window was the first thing I did once I got to the Desktop and had installed the basic things like drivers and Radeon Omega drivers. However, I think it was only once I had installed a few programs, especially Java JRE/JDK, Eclipse, Apache Tomcat and the server when I noticed it had occured again. So I defragged the hard drive and it still occurs. I don't think it was the programs as it was all working fine before I started getting this problem (pre-format) and then it started happening out of nowhere.
Anyone have any ideas? I'm gonna try formatting YET again tomorrow because my group project finishes tomorrow so I don't need the JDK, Eclipse and Apache. I hope it ain't my graphics card. It passes 3DMarks fine with no problems.
When I first reinstalled Windows, the problem didn't occur because dragging around a window was the first thing I did once I got to the Desktop and had installed the basic things like drivers and Radeon Omega drivers. However, I think it was only once I had installed a few programs, especially Java JRE/JDK, Eclipse, Apache Tomcat and the server when I noticed it had occured again. So I defragged the hard drive and it still occurs. I don't think it was the programs as it was all working fine before I started getting this problem (pre-format) and then it started happening out of nowhere.
Anyone have any ideas? I'm gonna try formatting YET again tomorrow because my group project finishes tomorrow so I don't need the JDK, Eclipse and Apache. I hope it ain't my graphics card. It passes 3DMarks fine with no problems.