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Argh! This is really doing my head in now.

Since I zapped my PC I've been having problems with my graphics card. No hardware was changed, just a reinstall with the same hardware, and I think all the same software.

Since doing that, I started getting a pause in GTA:SA. CJ or any cars, etc would move for a second, pause for half, move for a second, etc. I tried all sorts of drivers for the card, but in the end tracked it down to Norton Anti-Virus. The Navapsvc.exe constantly take up between 19-42% of my processor. If I engage the internet lock and turn off Norton I can play fine. Obviously this will be a problem with MTA though.

I've run Norton, Adaware and Spybot, and all are clean. Any suggestions people?

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Argh! This is really doing my head in now.

Since I zapped my PC I've been having problems with my graphics card. No hardware was changed, just a reinstall with the same hardware, and I think all the same software.

Since doing that, I started getting a pause in GTA:SA. CJ or any cars, etc would move for a second, pause for half, move for a second, etc. I tried all sorts of drivers for the card, but in the end tracked it down to Norton Anti-Virus. The Navapsvc.exe constantly take up between 19-42% of my processor. If I engage the internet lock and turn off Norton I can play fine. Obviously this will be a problem with MTA though.

I've run Norton, Adaware and Spybot, and all are clean. Any suggestions people?

It isn't a problem with MTA and the fact that your game lags isn't due to a virus in MTA. If there is a virus in the copy of MTA you got ( which I doubt looking at the problem ), download it from another mirror and try again. I don't know what the problem is with your antivirus acting like that, im afraid someone else needs to help you with that.

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Any security expert will tell you not to run two personal firewalls at once on one PC. Equally, its fairly well known that norton is rather a memory and processor intensive program at times. I'd avoid it personally.

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oh shit,i guess i dident read it proply :oops::lol: and having 2-3 firewalls is not a good idea lol having broadband - if u have it is like a 2 way high way if nothin can get to u u cant get 2 it :x,just go with this : microsoft antispyware-free from the microsoft website norton antivirus 2005 - not free but subcribsion and buying of the product will cost lastly windows fire wall - shold be installe afta u update xp 2 sevice pack 2 :)

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Having 2 firewalls at the same time is a really bad idea. That could mess up your PC. Last time I did that, I wasn't able to do anything.

I had 3 firewalls once,"Bull-dog security system"

ZoneAlarm

Defender Pro

Windows Firewall

and I was just fine, but now i'm back to 1 again

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oh shit,i guess i dident read it proply :oops::lol: and having 2-3 firewalls is not a good idea lol having broadband - if u have it is like a 2 way high way if nothin can get to u u cant get 2 it :x,just go with this : microsoft antispyware-free from the microsoft website norton antivirus 2005 - not free but subcribsion and buying of the product will cost lastly windows fire wall - shold be installe afta u update xp 2 sevice pack 2 :)

GRAMMEDIC! We need some punctuation, stat! :lol:

Couldn't actually understand the advise in all that. I have Norton, and that's the whole problem. I'm not too keen on using MS Anti-Spyware because it's from Microsoft, and my copy of Office may or may not be legal.

I have turned off Auto-Protect on Norton. Not too happy with doing that, but I'll see how it goes.

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