Power Supply : A not sufficient strong or malfunctioning power supply is in many many cases the reason for Computer lag. Beginning with there is not enough power supplied for the CPU till too much power loss to supply the graphics card with the needed electricity to perform as supposed. There are tons of places on a motherboard that can get broken, corrupted or malfunctioning.
Other Peripherals: In general all external or internal peripherals such as printers, cards, USB devices, routers, modems, cams, microphones, mouses or joysticks that are malfunctioning, not updated or wrongly installed can cause Computer lag.
Audio Cards : Problems with audio cards are mainly resulting in audio lag, but can also due malfunctioning cause Computer lag. What you can do to get rid of Computer lag! Step 1. Check the Warranty of your Computer and connected peripherals Check your Computers or peripherals warranties!
If you are lucky, you just need to bring your Computer to the next service partner of your Computer manufacture or vendor to solve your lag issues. Be aware that in most of the cases the warranty doesn't include issues caused by your Operating System or misconfiguration done by your end! Also watch out that the warranty seal is not damaged or broken! Step 2. Look for any burned or oxidized places on your motherboard. Also test if there are any places on your motherboard that are getting very hot, just hold your hand slightly over, dont touch the motherboard or the parts itself.
Warning: do not touch any part of your Motherboard with bear hands. Allays turn off the power supply before opening your Computer! Control all wires and cables that are connected form the outside to your Computer. Step 3. If so try to restore your system and see if the problem is gone! You will need to download and install a monitor to control your Computers temperature and voltage usage. Please not that you will need to read throughout your motherboards, CPU and hard disk manual in order to know what temperature and voltage are Ok or not for your specific Hardware.
If you notice too high temperature or to high or low voltages you will need to take a deeper look into the Hardware with the issue. You can always visit the support Website of the manufacture to seek out help in case of temperature or voltage issues. Step 7. Test your Computers RAM RAM problems can decrase your computer performance, let your computer restart randomly, showing a blue screen or let files be randomly corrupted.
Also some programs might fail to install for unknown reason or determinating themslef after some running time. RAM issues are a very comon reason for Computer lag. Step 9. Take a look on all the drivers installed on your Computer The common understanding is, that you need to update drivers when ever you can. Well that might be true till some degree, but unfortunately forums, blogs and other community boards are full of complains when users did update to new drivers.
It is wise to wait some time before installing a new driver. At least that long, till issues that can happen by every new release are solved or even better no reports about issues can be found at all. Ensure that there are no driver conflicts on your Computer!!! Step Use a Firewall, anti virus-scanner and malware scanner I isn't uncommon that infections can cause Computer lag or Computer lag spikes.
If nothing helps to solve your Computer lag ….. The short version Try to run Windows in safe mode and see if the lag remains. If your Computer still lags you might want to unplug your external devices, followed by taking out your networking card, graphic cards, and so on The restart your Computer again.
Do you play your online game and run some bandwidth-chugging programs at the same time? If yes, the first trick form stopping game lag is to close these programs. To close these programs easily and quickly, you can utilize Task Manager. Take Windows 10 for example. Step 2: On the Task Manager window, check what applications are consuming many resources. Step 3: Highlight the program that consuming many resources and not related to the game you are playing and then hit the End tasks button at the bottom of the window.
After closing all the network-hogging programs, check if the game lag has been fixed. Note that it is highly recommended that you close unnecessary problems before playing a game because too many programs running in the background will take up lots of memory and cause computer crash when playing games. Removing viruses from your computer will improve your gaming experience as well as improve your computer security. On Windows 10, you can run Windows Defender to complete this scanning.
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