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Ginsu Victim:
First off, I'll get the specs out of the way:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000 3.1GHz Socket AM2 89W Dual-Core Processor

ASUS M2N-MX SE Plus AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

Transcend 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model JM4GDDR2-8K

DIAMOND 3650PE1GOC Radeon HD 3650 1GB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card

Thermaltake TR2 W0070RUC 430W ATX12V Power Supply

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 64-bit for System Builders - OEM

So here's the deal.....

My system runs everything fine, except for when I do anything 3D. Well, I take that back. EVERYTHING runs fine, including 3D, until I begin any kind of input (mouse/keyboard, gamepad, etc).

For example, I ran the Street Fighter IV benchmark and it ran perfect. It never gave me a single slowdown or anything. This morning I installed the game and it ran fine at first, but once I started playing, I began to get off and on slowdown. It was never related to anything happening on-screen. It just happened on a regular cycle.

This regular cycle slowdown has been the problem in everything. Games will run perfect, then slow. It's cyclical.

I bought Ghostbusters and everything ran great until they finally gave me control of my character. Once I was able to start playing, the slowdowns began.

This is the case with Far Cry, Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, GTAIV, Plasma Pong.....even Postal 2. Older games are even giving me this problem. I can set games to their absolute lowest settings and I still get this slowdown.

This problem existed for me in Windows XP SP2, so I thought if I upgraded to Vista 64, maybe that would help, but it didn't. When I installed Vista, it was a fresh install onto a formated drive and before I did anything else, I tried Far Cry 2 and the problem still existed.

So is this input related? I'm really stumped here and I've tried a lot of things to figure it out.

I'm not at home at the moment, so I can't try any suggestions right now, but I'm open to hearing any ideas on this. I've got a good gaming rig, short of being able to actually game on it!
:angry:

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

HaRuMaN:
Hmm... that's an odd one.  Sounds almost like it could be your video card...  have you updated the drivers to it?

Also, do you have another video card you can swap out and to try to reproduce the problem?

HaRuMaN:
Also...  have you been monitoring the heat on your video card?  Do you have any extra cooling on it?

Ginsu Victim:
Drivers are up to date. The one thing I've been working on doing IS getting ahold of another card, but I don't have a comparable card and no one I know has one I can borrow.

Ginsu Victim:

--- Quote from: HarumaN on July 02, 2009, 10:24:54 am ---Also...  have you been monitoring the heat on your video card?  Do you have any extra cooling on it?

--- End quote ---

The problem starts right away. The temp is fine, and I have seven fans in my system.

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