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?

[Magik5]

having 4gb of ram i dont care how much it uses, you have to remember vista is designed to run optimally with 4gb+. oh and dx10 in crysis hardly looks any different to dx9/xp to warrant having it installed just to play crysis

take it you dont know about the xp hack for crysis to get the dx10 features running. plus the fact that very high settings produce the dx10 textures etc, yet most pc's cant play it smoothly as of yet (the same reason vista uses so much ram - its designed for future pc's in mind). however im being a little hypocritical as i too use vista for crysis and bioshock - the two games that can primarily use dx10 atm

you can also turn off the "helpful" popups under user settings in cuntrol panel fucks me off to so i had to gert rid of them

and being the pc geek that you are, you should know windows loads any disk/disc drive drivers that are available under safe/normal mode - so your the retard for putting them there in the first place hehe

i do like linux though, but i have no need for it as im just a boring gamer so i have no use for it - do love playing nibbles though

oh and now having sp1 rc1 installed for vista, it seems a bit more responsive/less lag when you want to open appz etc