Ridiculous amount of lag

[Zungie]

OS: Vista Business
CPU: 2x 2.33 GHz
RAM: 2GB DDR2
GFX: Intel GMA 3100 (286MB)

Sound is incredibly jittery, graphics lag immensely and as far as I'm aware, my machine is perfectly capable of handling a 5-year-old game...

Help?

 

[Doomination]

your video card is the only thing that looks a little low, my radeon 256mb sometimes has trouble running hl2

 

[Zungie]

I don't know much about graphics cards other than mine is weak, but I thought the recommended spec was >128MB?

And I'm having more than "trouble" with it, tbh. It's unplayable.

 

[Dekstar]

Firstly, knowing which game you're talking about would be nice.

Half-Life 2 recently received an upgrade to a newer engine (the same one as Episode 2), which is why you could be having trouble with that graphics card.

 

[arch5]

If it's a source engine game, go in console and try these commands:
rate 30000
cl_cmdrate 66

 

[Drackard]

If it's a source engine game, go in console and try these commands:
rate 30000
cl_cmdrate 66

How is adjusting his rates going to affect his FPS?

Anyway, as Dekstar said, knowing which game you're talking about would be nice.

 

[Zungie]

Sorry.

Half Life 2, Episode One and Two.

Edit: And Synergy mod, but not TF2.