punkbuster working in background?, pc lag/freeze Options

[m33amkii]

hi guys, i wonder whether or not any of you have expeienced this before? :

playing on the server, suddenly the game freezes (and the sound etc) and the HDD LED lights up (HDD in use) and screen stays frozen for a few seconds. in the meantime, i get owned by magik5 or some other tramp , and i 'wake up' to the 'critically wounded' screen (cos of course, everyone-else's game has kept going)

this does not happen just once, but a few times in succession, for about 5-8 seconds each time.

i wonder whether it is PB trying to take a SS of me, and re-trying every time due to lack of success or something. i have no other background programs running, except vista windows updater or whatever and kaspersky I/S.

running vista x64 home premium, and lates punkbuster outfit

also poor k/d ratio when this happens , making me look like a dick

any suggestions?

[MonkeyFiend]

90% time problem = vista

basically you're hard disk is doing stuff, PB shouldn't cause this as it usually keep everything in memory (if it wrote to disk, it would be easiery for hackers to manipulate files on disk, which would be bad)

It's more likely vista getting up to something from time to time, main things to google and turn off:

Indexing
Superfetch
Windows Defender
Disk Defragmenter
Shadow copy/System restore.

Indexing, you can switch off in Services.
Superfetch is another service that causes disk thrashing. Microsoft's definition is: "Maintains and improves system performance over time." You can turn it off easily.
Windows Defender is set to auto scan by default. You can easily turn this off.
Disk Defragmenter is also set to auto defrag, which is easily turned off.

It's likely one of the above is doing a disk write which ties up you game