NEW PC WONT PLAY F.E.A.R

[solstring]

I have a new pc with the following in it:
1.Motherboard: M3A32-MVP Deluxe
2.Graphics card: Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI
3.Sound card: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer 7.1 Sound Card (30SB073000002)
4.Ram: Crucial Ballistix Tracer RED 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C4 800MHz Dual Channel Kit (BL2KIT25664AR804)
5.Hard Drive: velociraptor 150gb 10,000rpm
6.Power supply: 1000w power supply

How come im having trouble playing fear on med res 1280*768. SHould my pc be able to cope with fear on high res and details at max??

[martini161]

make sure you have the latest drivers installed. and what do yo mean it wont play it? be more specific please

[solstring]

The pc is very laggy, I find the responses like moving to the left are very slow its like seeing myself in the past, even on medium settings. It also seems to shoot and there is no shooting sounds and if there is it is like 2 seconds afeter I have shot. Its like the game just wont work properly. I can tell my hardware is struggaling with the game.
Aslo my new Razer Mako THX Certified 2.1 Speaker System has starting to crackle and distort whenever i play on the new games I have installed, what could this be?

[martini161]

sounds like a sound card drvier problem, try using on board sound

[solstring]

Ive plugged my sound system into the on board sound card and i am not getting any sound. Is there a way to enable the sound card, i tried device manager and sounds and audio devices but I cant find the right option to turn on the sound card.

[martini161]

when i say onboard i mean the one thats next to the usb and ethernet ports, and if you want to enable/disable it you have to install drivers first and enable/disable it in the bios

[solstring]

done, i still have the problem.

[martini161]

when you did that did you remove the sound card and uninstall the drivers?

[solstring]

i just disabled the sound card i never uninstalled anything. I found out i just needed to install the sound card drivers as I had never done it befor.

[martini161]

yup lol that wold do it. that should solve the speaker problem to

[solstring]

Nope, i still have crackling distortion and lagged sounds during games. Im also getting some weird interferance like when im useing the mouse wheel i can hear it through my headphones???

[pwcmed]

You can go back to old school troubleshooting. Uninstall or disable everything you don't need to boot up. Whats your CPU usage at? I gave my bro a computer that should have played almost everything and was having similar issues. His CPU usage was siting at 50% all the time after he got a hold of it. It turned out to be a wifi card he put in that was causing issues.

[skier]

just out of curiosity, what CPU is it?

[solstring]

amd phenom 9950 quad core

[tbdsniper]

Did you look for a BIOS update? Also are all of your drivers up to date?