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Originally Posted by dewelar
Hmmm...well, admittedly I did buy this in October 2011, so that may be it.
I don't have this problem with any of my other memory-hog programs (MS Access, Media Monkey) or with the game itself, though, even running a bunch of them at the same time -- I typically have a couple Access databases, several Excel spreadsheets, Media Monkey, Chrome, Thunderbird and a couple other programs open along with OOTP with no problems. It's just the ootp17setup.exe that causes issues.
*nods* I'll try that. I ran Malwarebytes fairly recently and didn't find anything, but it's always good to get a second opinion  .
Not sure what you mean. I'm running Win7 in old-school desktop mode, so maybe it works differently?
Yeah, I do this bit fairly regularly (g*dd*mn Adobe), but I'll check it again. We'll see if this has any effect on the next install. |
well, i doubt it's your pc... mine is from 2011 too... it was ~900 range that i pieced together... (excluding blu-ray writer cost... worst decision ever lol). a no-frills, small world only takes 2.5-3 mins to sim a year. this game is not resource intensive.
Run spybot as admin and in "Advanced Mode"... the default settings will be some "easy mode" and won't give access to the system tool i mentioned. on the left side of the spybot window is a menu of various things... think startup stuff is under "system tools" you only see this in advanced mode (should be a "advanced mode" icon in start menu folder, and if already loaded you can click the option in the file menus at the top of the screen... close/re-load spybot after setting it to advanced mode.
if you ran malwarebytes.. don't worry too much about the spybot scan. maybe just run it when you walk away fro the PC.
DO use spybot's advanced tools to look at startup applications (loads on boot up).
i'd lock the "host" file too while in there.
OH, i do know some WIN 7 have a major problem with "Sleep" mode... when it wakes up one of your cpu cores will be running at 100% load... lol good job microsoft... years later still a problem. not on all systems, though.
so, make sure that's not what is happending. i believe hibernate works better? i just turn that crap off, lol. (CoreTemp is a program that can give you feedback, or use resource monitor if it separates load% per core in feedback.
click Run in the startmenu (same since win98 i think). then type "msconfig" and "services.msc"
the msconfig will not show as much info as spybot about programs that boot with windows. spybot's changes are more permanent sometimes too... if you delete an entry in spybot and it comes back... next time just uncheck the box.
services.msc will give some good descriptions of background services you don't see.... look for something not made by microsoft that is enabled... read up on it, google it, turn it off if not needed.
heck, even create an inbound/outbound firewall rule for ootp17.exe... block it. companies don't deserve unfettered access just because you buy there stuf -- NOT that ootp is devious in anyway, but some of them are... if you can tell who they are, let us all know how :P