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Title: Man. whats is with these stutters?
Post by: DREDIOCK on August 16, 2006, 11:41:28 PM
Anyone else getting this

Solid framrate of 84
Good net status. I mean not so much as a hiccup or twitch

BAD stutters from time to time.
By bad. I mean the screen moves in chunks like its pausing sometimes, your typical slushy stutter others.


And yet other times. none at all.

the entire time showing a FR of 75-84 and no net problems

Tried filming it but as usuall when there is an anomoly I want to film. It didnt happen.

Got to film a nice 5 kill flight in a Pony B though.
Title: Man. whats is with these stutters?
Post by: Schatzi on August 17, 2006, 03:49:48 AM
I know what you mean. Had that once... turned out to be sound related.


Check your sound card drivers, make sure they are up to date. Check dxdiag, make sure Hardware accelleration for Sound is turned to Standard (3/4).

Ingame settings, try to change the setting for "Use Wave In". Its under the PREFERENCES > Voice tab.

Also, i assume AV etc is turned off whle you play?
Title: Man. whats is with these stutters?
Post by: Skuzzy on August 17, 2006, 06:33:26 AM
Try disabling skins and see if that cures the problem.
Title: Man. whats is with these stutters?
Post by: DREDIOCK on August 17, 2006, 08:10:40 AM
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Originally posted by Schatzi
I know what you mean. Had that once... turned out to be sound related.


Check your sound card drivers, make sure they are up to date. Check dxdiag, make sure Hardware accelleration for Sound is turned to Standard (3/4).

Ingame settings, try to change the setting for "Use Wave In". Its under the PREFERENCES > Voice tab.

Also, i assume AV etc is turned off whle you play?


Did the rest.
Didnt think about "Wav In"will give that a shot too.


Normally I get stutters after a new revision comes out. Re installing the game seems to fix it. for some reason
This time its different
Title: Man. whats is with these stutters?
Post by: DREDIOCK on August 17, 2006, 08:14:46 AM
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Originally posted by Skuzzy
Try disabling skins and see if that cures the problem.


Will give it a shot later today or tonight
Hoping thats not it as I like and want the skins.
But assuming that is it.

whats the Fix for it?
More ram?
Faster CPU?


Running a 939 Anthlon 64 3200
and gig of ram  now
Will another Gig fix it?


thanks Skuzzy
Title: Man. whats is with these stutters?
Post by: Eagler on August 17, 2006, 08:47:45 AM
make sure your computer/video card is not overheating or straining for voltage or amperage

a hot box and low amps on my 12volt rail to my agp 7800 gs co gave me the stutters real bad
Title: Man. whats is with these stutters?
Post by: DREDIOCK on August 17, 2006, 08:55:34 AM
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Originally posted by Eagler
make sure your computer/video card is not overheating or straining for voltage or amperage

a hot box and low amps on my 12volt rail to my agp 7800 gs co gave me the stutters real bad


Computer is fine temp wise.

I almost hope its the Vid card as I really dont like this card (256 meg ATI Radeon 9550) but it was a gift from the wife so..... Well you know how that goes;)
Title: Man. whats is with these stutters?
Post by: Schatzi on August 17, 2006, 09:06:50 AM
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Computer is fine temp wise.

I almost hope its the Vid card as I really dont like this card (256 meg ATI Radeon 9550) but it was a gift from the wife so..... Well you know how that goes;)



Hehe, want help frying it? I killed a GC and an entire PC in the last few weeks :D.
Title: Man. whats is with these stutters?
Post by: Eagler on August 17, 2006, 12:13:06 PM
I used a freeware program called SpeedFan to find out I had low 12vdc voltage and high temps
Title: Man. whats is with these stutters?
Post by: Schutt on August 17, 2006, 01:21:27 PM
@dreidiock if your graphic card has a heatsinkfan maybe the cable slips of the plug... sure to fix your trouble

@eagler i dont trust any onboard sensors that report voltage or temp, woul check with an voltmeter or some other relyable means

@dreidiock what motherboard? mine has the x16pcie and the first pci slot on the same irq, while windows remaps the irqs it still wasnt smooth at all when i have soundcard or network card in that slot
Title: Man. whats is with these stutters?
Post by: Skuzzy on August 17, 2006, 01:39:08 PM
Dred, there are now 402 skins in the game.  Windows XP does not support enough RAM to have all the skins loaded.

Now, the skins only load when they need to, so it is doubtful you will ever be online long enough, in one session, to actually see all 400+ skins.

However, if you run into a batch of new skins on planes, I could see it causing a heck of a stutter while they load.

The best solution I can give you is to disable the background downloads, and then load only the skins you really want to see.  If they are resident on your computer and skins are not disabled, the game will make use of them.  If the skin is not present, you get the default one.
Title: Man. whats is with these stutters?
Post by: Eagler on August 17, 2006, 01:54:20 PM
Skuzzy
how do you "load only the skins you really want to see"?

do i actually have to see the plane for the skin to load or will it load anyways? I notice like with the sun, it loads each time I log on and look at it for the first time
Title: Man. whats is with these stutters?
Post by: Krusty on August 17, 2006, 02:09:53 PM
I get a slight stutter now and then outside of AH. I get some when running movie files for the first time, exact same type as AH stutters. I get them in CS:S, but I've got that narrowed down to Valve porking their sound code repeatedly. I honestly don't know if there's anything wrong with my system, but I've got plenty of RAM, good processor, and okay GPU. I have minimal settings inside AH (default sliders), I have both optimizations, I have 512  textures, skins enabled (but not preloaded) and I'm getting some stutters.

It's the more recent lockups that have me worried.
Title: Man. whats is with these stutters?
Post by: Skuzzy on August 17, 2006, 02:55:31 PM
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Originally posted by Eagler
Skuzzy
how do you "load only the skins you really want to see"?

do i actually have to see the plane for the skin to load or will it load anyways? I notice like with the sun, it loads each time I log on and look at it for the first time
Remove the skins resource (.res) files from the skins folder (default location C:\Program Files\HTC\Aces High II\skins).  Remove the cache folders for all the planes in the cache folder.

Then download the individual skins (http://www.hitechcreations.com/download/dlsframe.html) from the downloads page.  Disable the background downloading of skins in the hangar.

And that is it.  It gives you control on what skins you want to see.
Title: Man. whats is with these stutters?
Post by: CAP1 on August 17, 2006, 03:43:37 PM
i WISH i could get frame rates that hi....highest i've seen so far is 35.....looking straight up and no other action going on......as low as 17 in furball on the deck.......this combined with my crappy aim, and flying a 38.......well......you all get the picture...............

1LTCAP
Title: Man. whats is with these stutters?
Post by: DREDIOCK on August 17, 2006, 07:05:35 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Schutt
@dreidiock if your graphic card has a heatsinkfan maybe the cable slips of the plug... sure to fix your trouble


@dreidiock what motherboard? mine has the x16pcie and the first pci slot on the same irq, while windows remaps the irqs it still wasnt smooth at all when i have soundcard or network card in that slot


GC has no fan

Motherboard is

Gigabyte K8 Triton Ga-K8NSC-939
Title: Man. whats is with these stutters?
Post by: DREDIOCK on August 19, 2006, 10:30:44 AM
Looks like the Wav in may have fixed it.
No or a should say. very few stutters in the last two days since I clicked it
(knock on wood)

good. I was hoping I didnt have to disable skins
Title: Man. whats is with these stutters?
Post by: x0847Marine on August 20, 2006, 04:32:54 PM
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
GC has no fan

Motherboard is

Gigabyte K8 Triton Ga-K8NSC-939


Outstanding motherboard.

Have you tried Gigabytes "easy tune"?..its a free download from Gigabyte. On top of making overclocking effortless, it displays fan speeds, temps, voltages.. all kinds of nifty info you can use to track down issues.
Title: Man. whats is with these stutters?
Post by: Brenjen on August 20, 2006, 10:01:12 PM
I have 403 skins in my HTC AHII skins file & I get these stutters every once in a while. I did not however have wav in selected, I checked it & will see if that helps my stutters as well.

 System specs: Athlon64 4000+ OC'd to 2.9GHZ - 2GHZ DDR Ram - Asus A8N SLI Premium mobo - 1GHZ eVGA 7950 GX2 - Antec 550watt trupower II
Title: Man. whats is with these stutters?
Post by: DREDIOCK on August 22, 2006, 04:11:46 PM
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Originally posted by x0847Marine
Outstanding motherboard.

Have you tried Gigabytes "easy tune"?..its a free download from Gigabyte. On top of making overclocking effortless, it displays fan speeds, temps, voltages.. all kinds of nifty info you can use to track down issues.


Yup I got it.

Actually I liked ASUS Probe Better

Couldnt OC there but I coud in the BIOS easy enough

Probe was better for monitoring temps.

Since you have it.

How the hell do you access smartfan and CIA MB? features?
They wont open for me