FR415S problems with performance

[senden]

hey recently my laptop is not performing to the same standards as it would about 2 months ago. Im a big gamer and i seem to get AWFUL fps issues and i wonder what i can do to help this. I tried reformatting and it seems to take longer than it usually does also and im baffled to why this is. I recently got hold of a broadband connection (im on dial up,) and i sort of went a bit barmy with the downloads and downloaded about 40gb worth of stuff (but ive took most of it off now.) Can this cause loss of performance? I also reformat quit often and dont know if that can cause any problems? So any advice on what i could do to increase my performance so it is around the same as it was a couple of months ago? thanks.

[kee-lo_]

Downloading 40GB of data is not going to cause you serious oerfirmance issues.

As you have formatted a few times and it's not like it used to be I'm wondering if the graphics card is working as well as it should.

Make sure you install everything on the recovery DVDs and from C:\Drivers.

[nick_pan]

depends what the 40gigs was and which sites you got the stuff from..

If it was data from non legal sites..make sure you've run a full spyware checkup etc for obvious reasons

[kee-lo_]

Also do a good virus scan.

[senden]

ok the 40gb was some bit torrent stuff but thats all gone now, most of it was from fileplanet. I dont think its a virus but even when i do a recovery it seems to a take twice as long as it used to for some reason. My video cards drivers im sure is up to date but anyway could someone give me the url to the place where i can download the latest updates (i forgot .)

[TygerTyger]

40gbs might spread your files and things around a bit though. Give your computera good hard defrag, couldn't hurt.

[kee-lo_]

anyway could someone give me the url to the place where i can download the latest updates (i forgot .)

http://www.vaio-link.com