Okay, well I'll start out by saying I didn't know exactly what forums to put this in because I don't know what exactly is causing the problem...

Ever since yesterday, I have began to get Freeze-Ups while playing Final Fantasy XI. It happened once yesterday and three times today (looks to be becoming more consistent). Now I know, that the game does take up a lot of CPU Usage while playing, but I have been playing the game for about 5 months and it has never happened. I have also owned my computer since Christmas (specs are below). I have never exerienced freeze-ups like these before.

At first I thought it was my computer overheating, but I've had it on longer then this before and nothing has happened. I now feel that it may be because of overuse considering I just got out of school for the summer. It could even be because of a virus that I got rid of two days (that I had to get rid of manually because my Norton subscription is out of date). I also downloaded the Dell Analysis tool and found that the file -- tfsnifs.sys -- may be causing me driver trouble. Overall, however, it seems that my CPU has been slow the last few days. Other than these things I really don't know.

Now the compuer I use is a Dimension 4700 with a 128mb PCI-Express Radeon X300 video card, the default sound card, 512MB DDR-RAM, 80GB Hard Drive and standard Samsung CD-RW drive. If anyone can give me any help on this I would be really greatful. If not I may have to reformat myself.

Thanks.