PC freezing while playing Final Fantasy XI.

[Hwang]

I'm just looking to see if anyone can help, over the past 2 weeks or so, my PC has been randomly freezing while playing FFXI, it happens roughly every 5 minutes and lasts from 5-10 seconds, I can't think of anything that could be causing it, I haven't changed or added anything in that time.

I have been reading that it's a possible effect from the new AVG update, I have the free version, not sure if this is true or not.

Any help would be appreicated.

[xerodok]

AVG is garbage but that's besides the fact. It's probably not affecting your performance with FFXI.

Answer these questions:
What kind of graphics card do you have? What operating system are you running? Are you using windower?

[Hwang]

nVidia 9600GT, Windows 7 32 bit, Yes I'm using windower.

I uninstalled AVG (went with Microsoft security) and the freezing has stopped, could just be luck, but it's been 3 hours and nothing, but we'll see if it lasts.

[Omnipotent]

Spend 100 bucks, improve your graphics 10 fold too.

[xerodok]

AVG could be consistently scanning for something and throttling your memory/CPU processing. Turn off automatic scanning and do it routinely by yourself, even when using Microsoft Security Essentials.