Vista - Intel chip patch?

Well I am trying to play older games on Vista but I seem to be having troubles, I get 2 second freezing in all steam games and lag through out other games, The games I can run perfectly fine are, Call of Duty 4, Stalker and Crysis I was just wondering how to fix this issue and I would appreciate it.

My specs are:
Vista home premium 32bit
3 gigs of ram
GeForce 8800GS alpha dog edition

Are you sure you installed your:

- Motherboard (Chipset) drivers
- GPU drivers
- Sound Drivers?

And your Network drivers! Though they are sometimes bundled in the motherboard/chipset drivers.

Keep in mind, that some older games when run on Vista, have to be set in the icon properties to run in WindowsXP with Service Pack 2 mode, or they plain flat out crash.

Alright, well I forgot to add something to this, I do have a Pentium D 2.8 ghz, I have heard its been causing issues considering its a dual core in one core, And its have troubles, with is it a single core or a dual core, But I have found no way to resolve this yet, and im aggravated because I like to play older games like, Counter Strike: source and half-life 2 engined games,

Hi Koss,

I have a PentD running Vista quite well, It doesnt cause problems playing CSS or HL2...

Are you running antivirus or other security software in the background?

Steven

No background programs beside, Xfire to record my gaming hours, I have gotten information from another website to run the games in XP service pack 2 would that be correct (sorry if some one posted that above me)


EDIT: That just made the problem even worse, running it in XP gives it more lag for longer and does more damage, I really need to figure this problem out,

Another thing, My computer refuses to give me full administrator rights, I have tried in CMD and it says Access denied, and so on I have turned off the User rights selection in the control panel.

Hey Koss,

Can you take some screenshots of the CPUZ memory tab and also one of GPUZ, I want to check your memory timing and Graphics card settings and temperature

Steven

Does that work

Yep, just need one more from CPUZ for the memory tab...

What type of grpahics card is that built-in on the motherboard or an extra PCIE card?