Okay, I have had this problem for ages and never been able to resolve it. Maybe someone here knows what to do...

 

Basically, my RS frame rate drops over time. When I reboot the game is smooth, but as the day progresses it gets more and more choppy. The more I use the game, the worse it becomes.

 

There are only two things that fix this: rebooting or temporarily putting my machine into sleep mode. Nothing else matters: graphics settings, killing and restarting IE, killing and restarting Java, etc.

 

The rebooting I can understand, but for the life of me I cannot figure out why sleeping the PC has this effect. And unfortunately, sometimes my machine refuses to sleep and I have to reboot it, which is a real hassle.

 

If anyone has any ideas about what is happening here, or how I might be able to fix this other than sleep mode, I'd be grateful!

Well computers do get slower the longer they are on cause building heat slows stuff down.

And many task/programs are a sod and won't "unlock" the RAM they took for other stuff to use meaning ur RAM capacity slowly cycles down.

 

Restart and Sleep would both have the effect of allowing some cooling and clearing RAM of unnecessary "locked" segments, which would speed ya back up.

Thanks for the reply.

 

I'd agree with you except RS goes from completely unusable to completely smooth even if I sleep and then "wake up" the machine immediately...

If ur system has a lot of junk running even background running tht starts and stops and locks ram block. Sleeping would clear tht instantly.

 

So it would still fit

If ur system has a lot of junk running even background running tht starts and stops and locks ram block. Sleeping would clear tht instantly.

 

So it would still fit

Sleeping doesn't clear up RAM and it doesn't cool the system down if you wake it up right afterwards.

 

Qeltar, open up the Task Manager and take a screenshot directly after loading Runescape. When is begins to slow down, reopen the Task Manager and compare with the earlier screenshot. You don't have to post them here, but inform us of any drastic changes, especially with Java and the browser.

If ur system has a lot of junk running even background running tht starts and stops and locks ram block. Sleeping would clear tht instantly.

 

So it would still fit

Sleeping doesn't clear up RAM and it doesn't cool the system down if you wake it up right afterwards.

 

Qeltar, open up the Task Manager and take a screenshot directly after loading Runescape. When is begins to slow down, reopen the Task Manager and compare with the earlier screenshot. You don't have to post them here, but inform us of any drastic changes, especially with Java and the browser.

 

Not to the same extent as a reboot or w/e, but it does clear at least some locked off blocks left behind by no longer running tasks.

Actually, no. Putting on sleep keeps the things in the RAM and makes the computer use just enough power to keep it in there (since if RAM has no power it will clear up).

 

What I think is happening here is overheating. The more heat, after a certain temperature, the less performance there will be, and at a certain temperature (when it's too high), depending on the machine it could be 80 or 85 degrees Celsius, the computer will shut down to protect its components from having too much damages.

 

Most of the time it's caused by dust, which can be cleaned with a can of compressed air or I don't think it would be too expensive if you were to bring it to a computer shop for them to do it for you.