Screen Freezes/Stutters

[Dace]

Heya TC. Good to cya.

nope. Problem still not solved. did some experimenting today. unplugged my usb headset and plugged my old headphones...still got the stutters. backed down to 512 textures. still got the stutters. installed latest vid drivers from Nvidia. still gettin stutters. almost at my wits end. i do some more tweaking and check back in here with results.

[katanaso]

          Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     E8400  @ 3.00GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.7GHz
      

Is there any reason your CPU is downclocked?  Has this changed since you last remember not having stutters?  Is the memory also not running at the rate speed now?

[Skuzzy]

Go into the Task Manager, with nothing running on the desktop, and watch the CPU activity.  It should rarely get above 1% (usually like a heartbeat from 0 to 1 and back again).  If it is spiking higher, then something is running in the background eating up CPU time which could also lead to stutters.