windows 7 32bit hiccup

[darryl63]

Hi Guys
i recently noticed that when i play any game on my computer it suddenly hiccups, yesterday i played split second velocity and every 9 seconds the game would just freeze for 1 second, it went on throughout the time i was playing the game. so i tried blur and it did the exact same thing, i then tried transformers war for cybertron and it did the same thing again. i know for a fact that its not the drivers as i updated them about a month ago.
any idea as to why this would happen

my setup is
core2 duo e8400 3.0GHz
4GB ddr2 800 ram
asus ENGTX460 768MB gpu
MSI G41 mainboard

[hamin_aus]

i know for a fact that its not the drivers as i updated them about a month ago.

And how long after this did you notice the freezing

[darryl63]

yesterday it started freezing and i updated about a month ago

[hamin_aus]

And there are no apps running in the background using a lot of resources that would cause a bottleneck?

Things like this don't just start happening magically - think back to anything that may have been updated or installed or even removed that may have led to this... Maybe you have Windows updates scheduled or you updated your antivirus...

[darryl63]

yes it was an anti virus update