A friend of mine has a 1.5 ghz HP with a 32 mb graphics card and 256 RAM, it's like 3 or 4 years old, but it was (pretty much) top of the line then. He recently started getting into Warcraft 3, we've been playing 1v1 and stuff and he's been enjoying it, as have I and others we play with. It's a good LAN situation we got going, so it's fun.
But his computer CHOKES up on WC3, it can't play it smoothly at all!, my other roommate has a 533 mhz. Dell with upgraded RAM and Video Card(geforce 4 I think) and it plays WC3 totally perfectly.
but by all accounts my first roommate should play it smoothly too.
the problem...VIRUSES!
So, said roommate just went on a crusade to purge his system of viruses, he had dozens of them, spyware, ad bots...etc the whole mess, it was seriously destroying his performance system wide and in WC3.
he succeeded in purging the system, but then when he rebooted, his Sound card is no longer being recognized, and he can't find drivers for it!
What a waste.
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