It sounds like you have something else putting a load on your system. Viruses, trojans, adware, and spyware can cause very unusual issues. Your virus scanner may not be up to date, or it may not be capable of detecting the malware. Try going to task manager and looking at the processes in the order of CPU useage. A screenshot would help if you don't know what you're looking for.
My virus scanner should be fine - its the Norton Gaming edition and its completely up to date.
In my processes window it shows 82 current processes using between 4-6% of my CPU at any given time. That's without running the game. Unfortunately I don't have a clue what the majority of them are, nor do I know what would be 'about normal' for my system. I rarely download any software to it and use it primarily for surfing the internet and gaming.
At the risk of sounding like a moron, I can't figure out how to do a screen shot of my Task Manager, especially if the processes are scrolling off the screen - and if I do, I'm not entirely certain how to get that screenshot here onto the forums.
Thanks for your response - if it sounds like I need too much help, I'll totally understand if you don't want to bother... its just very, very frustrating to all of a sudden be unable to play.
While we have a few techie types that hang out here, your best bet is the "Technical Issues & Bugs" forum of the "Development" sub-forum.
And the "Help Us Help You" thread.
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My computer is an alienware laptop that has had zero problems running CoH for the past year... I have updated my graphics card driver, have plenty of available RAM, etc am experiencing absolutely no problems with any of my other applications or programs and have the same wireless internet connection I've always had... but all of a sudden, several days ago, my ability to play just ground to a halt. If I push a button it takes 2-3 seconds to register, even in the character creation screen (though its worse in-game) and movement is so slow and jerky as to make the game unplayable.
I've been around since Beta so the last thing I want to do is give up CoX, but I don't have a clue what to do next. Did we have an update or something that just bombed the graphics requirements?
Any help would be much appreciated.