I'm not sure which forum to put this in, so ill put it here and in the memory forum, then i guess a mod can help me sort it out. so, basically due to all my excitement for the boxing day sale, i went to futureshop at 5:30 this morning and snagged a " GeForce 6600GT OC" for about.. $160 canadian.. installation was a little bit of a hassle (getting the drivers right and all that crap) but i got it done here's where my problem comes in. ever since, i've been getting stutters in almost every game (some games are alot worse then others, for example, f.e.a.r. the game will pause for 5-6 secconds at a time, sometimes) It's quite different then normal framerate lag, as the framerate usually stays 25-30 even in pretty intense enviroments. Basically, the game (video and audio) just "pauses" for a few secconds, sometimes looping the audio until it corrects itself. Alot of people are having this trouble with half-life 2. but my problem expands on alot of games... If you would like a better description, please go http://www.blep.net/hl2stutter/#systemspecs there. there is even a video of what im experiencing near the bottem, but sometimes mine can be alot worse. ALOT. here's what i've tried. *Increasing the paging file on c: to over 3 gigs! *adding another 3 gig page file on h drive *deleting unwanted programs (clearing space) * updating motherboard drivers. * updating videocard drivers (after no luck, i tried using the Omega drivers, still no luck) *Tried lowering the settings in the game far below what i know my specs can take. *increased the agp voltage to 1.6V * set fsb spread spectrum to 1% * in dxdiag, lowered sound acceleration by 1 notch I tried all that and im still getting stuttering! like.... really really bad. unplayable heres my latest report from the program "everest", to show a bit of my specs. CPU Type : AMD Athlon XP, 2000 MHz (12 x 167) 2400+ Motherboard Chipset : nVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400 System Memory : 512 MB (DDR SDRAM) (hmmm, that was 768 before i installed my gcard) Video Adapter : NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT (Omega 1.6693) (previous adapter was a geforce 5700 le) hmm , I dont know what to do? could the gcard have broken my ram or something? lol is i hope not. please help!
I'd make sure that my RAM was firmly installed. It's possible that it got bumped, or you took it out to install the video card. Make sure your chipset drivers are installed too.
you can always test your ram. download memtest86, it makes a boot disk that is a stand alone program that will test your memory. you will need to boot to the disk so it will work.
thanks for the qick replies, guys this site has always been my favorite. hmm, i opened up the case and wiggeled out the sticks of ram, booted it up again and now its back to 768 megs. but, cyber, that gave me a few ideas. My dad as a bunch of ram sticks at work (im there now actually, came to get a few) that i need to test out. (i mean, when they are plugged in, the memory is accounted for when it starts up, but some of them crash the system bigggggggg time, or just slow it down. im thinking of trading in my 5700le card and getting some decent ram. but, im not to good with this "booting" stuff. im a product of the 80's, and didnt really get into computing until after windows came out. lol Know of any tutorials for that memtest program, or.. could you help me out? thanks
www.memtest86.com i use the bootdisk method, scroll down to "Memtest86 3.2 Release (11/Nov/2004" and choose the second one "Download - Pre-Compiled Memtest86 v3.2 installable from Windows and DOS" this will bring up a download box, choose save and save it to your favorite download folder it downloads a zip file named memt32 uzip the files and run the install.exe. follow the process and create a memtest disk when you want to test the ram, install the disk, power the system on, memtest86 will load and start automatically. It will run until you shut it off or hit esc in which case it will reboot. the previous example will only work if you have it try and boot from A: drive first, harddrive second. these settings are made in the bios. on my computer i can press F8 which enables a boot menu and then i can choose boot from a floppy.
Sniperfox, i don't know which thread you created first but there is no need for two of them! Maybe an Admin can merge them?
