ICR2/GP2 slower all of a sudden

I hadn't raced either ICR2 or GP2 in awhile, but I suddenly got the urge to play them again and installed both of them to the HD. Now I noticed that both games are slower in terms of frame rate than before. A graphics setting that used to be 16fps in ICR2 is now giving me only 11fps. What used to give me 80% processor occupancy in GP2 is now giving me 115%. Goodness knows how much software I've installed and uninstalled in my computer in the past several months, so a file that might've been used to make the games fast has been replaced by a poorer-working version of that file. Are there certain files that both programs rely on for giving good frame rate? FYI, I have an Acer P133, 16MB RAM, 1G HD, and a piece-of-***Cirrus Logic video card, the same setup I had when I ran the two sims before. -- If replying to this message via email, remove ".nonono" from the domain name. "Lady, I'm not a villain -- I'm vanilla." --Uncle Creamy

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> I hadn't raced either ICR2 or GP2 in awhile, but I suddenly got the urge to > play them again and installed both of them to the HD. > Now I noticed that both games are slower in terms of frame rate than before. A > graphics setting that used to be 16fps in ICR2 is now giving me only 11fps. > What used to give me 80% processor occupancy in GP2 is now giving me 115%. > Goodness knows how much software I've installed and uninstalled in my computer > in the past several months, so a file that might've been used to make the games > fast has been replaced by a poorer-working version of that file. Are there > certain files that both programs rely on for giving good frame rate? > FYI, I have an Acer P133, 16MB RAM, 1G HD, and a piece-of-***Cirrus Logic > video card, the same setup I had when I ran the two sims before. > -- > If replying to this message via email, remove ".nonono" > from the domain name. > "Lady, I'm not a villain -- I'm vanilla." --Uncle Creamy

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