Screen Stutters and Blurring Effect

[Sloehand]

I'm posting to ask if others are having the same problem.  Seems when I get into fight now, even with very few a/c near by, I get very small screens stutters, etc when closing and taking a shot.  Can't hit anything anymore because of it.  Switching quickly between views seems to create blurring effect bacause of the stutters, just enough that I can't keep track of aircraft anymore.  
Others in my squad are having the same problems since the last update.   I'm running the same, defragged, clean, high-end machine I did before the update.  Coupled with the contrast, coloring and depth perception issues, I feel I'm flying almost blind.  I'm getting a few kills just from experience knowing what the other might do next and shooting blind.
Wanted to know if others have the same problem before I even think of posting to bug forum.  I've had such good luck and response there in the past though, I probably won't.  May justt call HiTech, at least I'll get a response, even if it is the sound of a phone hangup.  LOL
Seriously, I don't know if it's worth try to fly while this goes on.

[eh]

Screen stutters have bothered me from time to time also. Usually I get them when I have just set up a new high end system. The first thing that I do is go to DirectX  (make sure you have the most recent version), select the sound tab and decrease sound acceleration to 75 or even 50 percent. For some reason, sound acceleration can affect your vid. card and produce stuttering. This works for me 90 percent of the time.

If that fails, on a high end system, I have produced stutter myself by underutilizing the vid card by decreasing resolution etc. When I max. it out, or when I use the defaults the game thinks that I should use, the stutters disappear... the rule seems to be, the more you burden your high end vid.card, the better it performs. Also, check that Windows' Auto Update is OFF, and turn off antivirus before going into Aces High. It sounds risky, but I have been doing that in AH for over a year now and have not experienced any problems... the servers are clean.

Then, there are all of the background processes you can turn off. Skuzzy has a sticky on that one. The advice in there is really valuable.

Finally, one Gig of RAM (or more) will really smooth out the game. Hope this helps.

BTW I don't get stutters with this update. Mine is now a medium system:

AMD 4000+
2 Gigs Ram
nVidia 6800 GT vid card

FR 100 to 50 depending on how many squirrels are in the new trees.

[wooly15]

do you mean run dxdiag?  there is no way of adjusting hardware acceleration for me under the sound tab?

[eh]

Yes, you run dxdiagnose and adjust the sound acceleration from there.