Author Topic: HELP! My game studders everytime I fire my gun! (Read 289 times)

fastfed · « **on:** August 02, 2005, 01:43:09 PM »

Ok here is the deal, I love the game and want to really get into it.. But no matter what plane OR WHAT VIDEO/SOUND settings everytime I fire the guns it has a good 2-5 second lag/studder..

Has nothing to do with my dsl modem either..

Can someone help me here? my computer specs are

2ghz amd
geforce 5700
1 gig of ram
sound blaster live audio

ALL DRIVERS ARE UPDATED, and also tried other drivers...

ALL AND ANY HELP would be appricated..

Thanks a ton guys, please help a fellow teammate ( or enemy

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out.

Skuzzy · « **Reply #1 on:** August 02, 2005, 01:45:20 PM »

Are you sure you have set the SBLive card to 3/4 (Standard) hardware acceleration? If you do not do this, you will get the results you are seeing.

If the problem persists after turning down the hardware sound acceleration, then you probably have some other high demand data device sharing an interrupt with the SBLive card.

Sound cards do not share interrupts well at all.

By the way, I moved your post here as it was in the wrong forum.

fastfed · « **Reply #2 on:** August 02, 2005, 01:47:20 PM »

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Originally posted by Skuzzy
Are you sure you have set the SBLive card to 3/4 (Standard) hardware acceleration? If you do not do this, you will get the results you are seeing.

If the problem persists after turning down the hardware sound acceleration, then you probably have some other high demand data device sharing an interrupt with the SBLive card.

Sound cards do not share interrupts well at all.

By the way, I moved your post here as it was in the wrong forum.

YEs did that already.. EVEN tried the game WITH NO SOUND CARD PLUGGED IN, though it would not run at all..

Gotta be something else..

fastfed · « **Reply #3 on:** August 03, 2005, 04:48:26 PM »

Tried another CRAPPY sound card and it fixed it, I installed the SB live card AGAIN, and updated the drivers.. Turned down the hardware acceleration all the way down, and checked the IRQ's and its not shared at all with anything else..

STILL LAGS!!!

Gotta be another fix!

Skuzzy · « **Reply #4 on:** August 03, 2005, 05:01:56 PM »

Take great care when swapping sound cards around. It can leave things in a bad state.

If you swapped the sound card and the problem wwent away, then you are on the right track. Were you careful to remove the drivers for the other sound card, before swapping the cards?

DirectX gets a bit wonky when more than one sound card driver is installed. Note, I said 'driver', even if the hardware is removed, DirectX will still run the drivers init routines which can leave things in a bad way.