Vista - Vista periodic 60sec lag spike

Hi all and excuse me for opening a duble thread on this theme but i m looking for a solution to this problem that makes online gaming impossible... using vista antilag but still doesen t work every 60 sec i still get lag spikes... on the other thread someone was speaking about a vista lag control.. but i didn t find it on the net... can somoene help me out ?
(sorry for my bad english :P)

Hello mike,

My first guess is a problem with your router as opposed to your computer. Do any other computers have this problem? Does this happen when you are browsing the web?

~Lordbob

hi Lord... yes i have an other pc with windows xp on the same wlan and it gives no lag problems...tryed to ping an internet browser and yes automatically every 60 seconds the answering time jumps from 130ms to 1900ms and over read about on the net that the problem dipends from the automatic search of the wlan for new wirless in the area even if you are already connected to your wlan so in this few seconds you get this lag spike... i want to deactivete this function but i m not able to

This could be one of the two following problems:

1) If you have a laptop and the power profile is set to 'power saving or balanced' this can happen because vista is slowing down the processor to save power, set it to high performance and it goes away. just right click on the battery on the task bar and choose high performance.

I had the same problem with battlefield and world of Warcraft, you get these hesitations every 60 seconds or so.

You would think that setting wouldn't make a difference when the laptop is plugged in, but i think it does.

2) If its not a laptop, I have had the same thing happen when you have a usb hub plugged into a usb port. Especially if you have a mouse or keyboard connected to it.
everytime you move your mouse or press keys on your keyboard you will get crazy lag spikes. The worst offender of this was a belkin 2.0 usb hub(powered) that I had.
just unplug the hub and your spikes go away.

Hope all this helps, post back if any of us help this problem go away, this problem shows up about every 2 weeks in the forum. I will check but I dont really remember anyone posting back to say it was fixed,

Thanks again!

Hi and ty for the answer but it isn t a laptop and atm i have no usb peripherlas on... dunno maybe can help the pc is an HP PAV M9295IT Q9300.I m looking around on the formum but the only 1 i read that fixed it used vista anti lag and vista lag control, was trying to use em too but i m not able to find the second one on the net

Mike,

Are you wireless or wired?

~Lordbob

Wow that totally reminds me of this insane problem when you have 2 network cards on your machine. One wired and one wireless when your wired into the router, and there is an encrypted wireless network nearby.

If you have both enabled on the machine, your wireless will attempt to connect to the wireless network but since you dont have the password it fails. it will lag your machine every 30 seconds or so, because it keeps trying to connect.

If that's your problem turn off your wireless and it should go away.

Interesting thought. Have some rep for the input.

I am not sure if that could cause a problem like this, but that could be solved by simply turning off the card or adding the password.

~Lordbob

Hi sorry if it needs a bit till i answer but between work and university makes it hard to find time... btw i'm connected to a wirless line tryed to deactivate the wired card but the problem doesen t stop ...if can be helpfull i may ping a address and make some screenshots.
Ty for the answers Mike.