Left 4 Dead is CHOPPY. Please Help me find out why.?

Question

I have a Inspiron 530s its in good condition, but when I downloaded Left 4 Dead from Steam I ran the game and it was like it had a horrible lag, I went to Options, and put the settings on low to see if that would help, But it was still Choppy? i deleted the game thinking maybe it was a bad download. i downloaded it again and it was the same way. But then it hit me, my drivers are probably out of date. so I updated whatever i could. there was no more updates. and i redownloaded the game and it WAS STILL CHOPPY. please can somebody assist me on why its just running choppy. the opening movie scene runs fine, but in-game is just horrid.

Answer 1

update your Graphics drivers, if you dont know what graphics card you have, google 'GPU-Z' download and install/run it, and you will find out what graphics card you have, then either go to the Nvidia or ATI site and download the drivers.



you never have to uninstall a game with steam if you think it's damaged, right click on it in the games list, go to proporties, local files tab, and then Veryfy integrity of game cache.



make sure that you dont have any of the following running:



a backup tool

a virus/spyware scanner

a defrag tool

a registry repair tool



or anything that will need to use the hard drive.



although it probably isnt a problem with something running, it's probably that your graphics card cant cope with the game.



updateing the graphics drives is the only thing you can do, as tehre were huge performance increases with driver updates that came after the game, and are still comeing out.

Answer 2

Left four useless a million & two are very image extensive on account that they're a primary man or woman shooter and are handling alot extra tactics than might be your Starcraft two. My pc is the identical precept, i cant play taking pictures video games however can play procedure video games like starcraft and and so forth... the cause for that is on account that both you would not have adequate RAM or a well adequate processor(without doubt RAM). If you're taking you pc into your regional pc retailer or identical and ask if they may be able to improve your RAM I'm certain they could be pleased to take action, however as a way to additionally fee you a pair further bucks in case you have the ones to spare. PS. my RAM is the worst for any state-of-the-art pc, attempt to improve your RAM to 2GB or 4GB

Answer 3

It's your hard ware. It's out dated. You have an old Intel Pentium Dual Core E5200. And only 3GB of RAM of which is old and slow DDR2 667mhz. Now here comes your real problem. You have an Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator. Integrated graphics is BAD!!! This is why you Lag. Your graphics device cannot handle it. You never want to get Integrated Graphics. It's definitely time to upgrade your computer. If you need help finding one just give me a price and I'll do the rest. Glad to help.

Answer 4

The problem could be programs running in the background, such as Skype or MSN, if you have too many of those your computer will run slow.