Alternating freeze/superspeed in Windows

[Jamesgamer]

Hi everyone, again!

On my desktop computer, even with the latest glest version, I'm having that classic "Game freezes, then goes very fast" (repeat) glitch. I think that the computer might have performance problems, which, unless anyone has any suggestions on how to fix them, I'm kind of stuck with.*
I've already tried lowering everything that I can in the Configuration (not glest.ini), but that hasn't helped either.

What info should I post again? Graphics card or something?
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200

Sometimes the computer will bluescreen and show the nv4_disp error (which some of you may know about). I've already tried an "nv4_disp fix," apparently to no avail.

Comments? help?

*I may reformat eventually, but I have to wait till I get out of school and stuff, and I'm hoping for a less time-consuming and short-term solution.

[Jamesgamer]

No answers?

[hailstone]

No sorry. You could try GAE when Silnarm's pathfinding gets merged. It has speed improvement.

[titi]

Geforce 5200 is a very old graphics card! If the computer ( and maybe the windows installation ) is of the same age, I think you may have trouble with defective hardware( because its so old ) or a corrupt windows installtion due to its lifetime.

What you can try is to install the latest driver for your graphics card ( its this one: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_175.19_whql.html) .

But often blue screens with nvidia drivers is something I don't really know! I think this is typical for defective hardware.

[ace frog]

it happens to me (if weare talking about the same thing).

it starts to slow down... this is called LAG, then it tries to get bect to normal time, to is goes super fast, so it can get to the right time...