I am still getting stutters/freezes

[Nomak]

I have already deleted the contents of cashe and skin files.  It did seem better for a couple days but I am still freezing up quite a few times a night.  I honestly dont remember this happening before the patch.  Not trying to blame HTC here..... Just not sure whats happening.

Maybe its on my end and not the game?  Is there something else I need to check?  Would posting a DX Diag help?  Maybe a ping check?  Help pls.  

Thx

Dave

Edit.... System specs

Thermaltake Armor
Asus P5n32-sli  se deluxe
2 gig corsair xms 240 pin ddr2 800
evga 7900 GT ko
pent d805 clocked to 4.0 gig
W.D. Raptor 150 gig 10k drive

I did have the newest video drivers installed and went back to 84.21 drivers.

[HomeBoy]

You might give FSautoStart a try.  It helped me immensly  with respect to stutters and jitters.

[Balsy]

Nomak,

Maybe you have my problem.

Hit ctrl alt del and click on processes and watch it awhile.  it should show 99% cpu usage and not fluctuate more than 1-2%.

Balsy

[HomeBoy]

Balsy probably meant to say "cpu free."  You should only see around 1-2% cpu usage.  99% means your machine is on it's knees.    

Do you have a built-in sound card?  That can cause issues like you describe.  You might also check that your sound acceleration is set to "standard" not "full."  I was surprised how much difference it made when I disabled my on-board sound and installed a cheap SB Live! 24 bit sound card.

Skuzzy recommends you have no more than 19-21 processes running.  I was not able to get down that low (I got down to 24) but trying to trim that will help a lot.  FSautoStart is very key to accomplishing this.

You might email your dxdiag to Skuzzy.  He's got a pretty keen eye toward spotting problems there.   I was running two monitors off my nvidia card and was getting lots of discos.  He recommended my disconnecting my second one and that appears to have solved that problem. (though it's still a little early to say for sure)

Hope some of this helps!
-mark

[Roscoroo]

stutters can be sound related too .. you'll notice a stutter when you "fire" or someone ck 6's ya .  turn down sound excell a notch is thats the case .

another stutter can be caused  if your on wireless and reverb back thru the sound issue .

or your pc hates you ,,,,

[fuzeman]

Originally posted by Nomak

pent d805 clocked to 4.0 gig

Thats one thing that stood out to me and easy to check if by "clocked to 4.0gig" means overclocked alot. And if it is, just cpu or the buss?
Does it happen without overclocking the cpu? Could be that is putting a hitch in the cpu's giddyup every now and then.

DxDiag [top 1/3rd] would be nice to see either way.

[Nomak]

Thx for all the replys.

I will prolly have to get back to ya on the stutters though.....

I think I crashed windows (on the wifes puter now).  

I have always run svc pk1 on my machine cause I have a scv pk1 disc (cough).  A friend gave me a svc pk2 disc and while I was loading it the machine rebooted mid install.  Then an error msg came up saying "Windows is unstable.  Uninstall svc pk2"

It has been trying to uninstall it for over an hour now <--Sigh>

Gonna just reformat it I guess.

Crap

Dave

[Roscoroo]

better clock it to stock for the format ..

whats happening is your pc isnt totally stable at your current clock settings thats why it crashed on the install , and its probely a cause of the "Stutters" .

 (been there done it lotsa times )

[Nomak]

Ok.....  stopped uninstall of svc pk2 and set cpu back to stock settings.  Gonna try to save this install of windows.  I really dont want to reformat.....

Will post results as they happen.

Thx

Dave

[Krusty]

You can reinstall without formatting. I'm sure you know that, but I thought I'd point it out. Just say "keep existing file system" when it asks you how you want to format it. I've done it many times.

Also, if it wasn't doing this BEFORE the patch, the patch caused it. Same with me. I reinstalled fresh from a full install (no patches) and it's fine again.

As a side note, SP2 adds a lot of subtle things to WinXP. I'd recommend upgrading to SP2 anyways. I would, however, suggest you do so through windows update. That minimizes the risk of some CD-ROM screwing things up. Just de-select MSIE7 and any things you don't want/like. Get all the critical updates then SP2 then just check the website every month or so.

[Schatzi]

Actually, for some a simple defrag of the HDD the game is installed on helped. (The patch threw the file system for a huge loop it seems, mine was all over the place as well.)

[Nomak]

Originally posted by Krusty
You can reinstall without formatting. I'm sure you know that, but I thought I'd point it out. Just say "keep existing file system" when it asks you how you want to format it. I've done it many times.

Also, if it wasn't doing this BEFORE the patch, the patch caused it. Same with me. I reinstalled fresh from a full install (no patches) and it's fine again.

As a side note, SP2 adds a lot of subtle things to WinXP. I'd recommend upgrading to SP2 anyways. I would, however, suggest you do so through windows update. That minimizes the risk of some CD-ROM screwing things up. Just de-select MSIE7 and any things you don't want/like. Get all the critical updates then SP2 then just check the website every month or so.

Am I going to have more "Issues" due to it not being a full reformat?  I have never done it this way before.

Also.... on my copy of XP it asks if I want to repair windows.  Is this what I want?

Thx

Dave

[Nomak]

Originally posted by Roscoroo
or your pc hates you ,,,,

Yeah..... Thats what it really is

Doing a full reformat now.  Hopefully the stutters wont come back.

Dave

[Hazzer]

changing sound card acceleration solved my stutters and mini freezes.I set it to standard.Onboard sound chip just is not up to it. luck Nomak.