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Title: Stutter
Post by: NOJACK on June 24, 2004, 02:04:20 AM

I have p4 3 gig 800fsb etc
ATI 9800 pro
Video stops dead for 1 or 2 seconds
Cheers NOJACK

Title: Stutter
Post by: XtrmeJ on June 24, 2004, 02:06:33 AM

Update your vid card drivers? If not, go do that. :)

Title: Video Drivers
Post by: NOJACK on June 24, 2004, 02:19:15 AM

Got the 4.6 drivers.  The latest I think.  Cheers NOJACK

Title: Stutter
Post by: Skuzzy on June 24, 2004, 07:11:41 AM

In almost every instance, so far, that I have seen this, it was related to the sound card/sound card drivers and/or processes running in the background.
Looking at the process list in the task manager does not cut it.  Processes can fire off and die very quickly and not show in the task manager at all.
But, you can simply go to the desktop, shut down all programs, bring up the task manager and watch the CPU usage.  With your CPU, you should never see any CPU usage show up.
If you do, then something is running without your knowledge.  Probably spyware.  Also note, if you are using some type of screen saver/wall paper utility that randomly rotates the background, it will cause the same problem.

In the game, how much texture/video memory is being used versus what is available?

Shoot me a cpoy of your DXDIAG and I will be glad to take a look and see if anything sticks out that could be the culprit.

Title: Still stutering
Post by: NOJACK on June 24, 2004, 11:53:20 PM

I'm narrowing it down now.  I did run adware 6 and cleaned out a few things.  Then spy killer.  It was a little toO invasive and I had a devil of a time getting it out.  Ran spy bot.  That worked well.  It looks like a have some problem with the sound card drivers not being up to snuff. I downloaded what I could find for the sound blaster platinum on the creative site, but I can't find my original disk and it somehow seems incomplete.  Any ideas, I'm open.  It seems to stutter when I hit the transmit key.  It's not as bad as it was.  Only a small momentary one.  Thats if for now.  NOJACK:rolleyes:

Title: Follow Up
Post by: NOJACK on June 25, 2004, 01:08:45 AM

I did some BB searches.  One suggestion was to unistall the sound blaster game port. Did it then Fired up AH now difference.  The I went to the control panel and reduced hardware acceleration and performance.  Samo Samo.  :rolleyes: NOJACK