any idea what could be the cause of this problem?

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please delete this topic, sorry


in a lot of games i get a tiny ammount of stuttering, its as if the game will be running perfectly at a high framerate but every so often it will skip a few frames and its really bugging me
it happens more in some games than others, the witcher and sins of a solar empire have it badly but in x3 its hardly noticable

also it doesnt seem to happen atall in some other games :confused:

i have ruled out the graphics card, hard drive, motherboard & processor because each of them has been changed since i originaly started having the problem

im thinking that now it either has to be ram or power supply but memtest didnt report any problems with the memory & i have no way to test my psu

here is my system

Windows Vista ultimate64
Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 (also tried a Q6600)
Nvidia GTX295 (also tried a GTX280)
Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 PC2-6400C5 TwinX
Asus P5Q Deluxe (also tried a Abit IP35)
Corsair HX 620W Psu
500gig Maxtor SATA (recently installed after my old HDD gave up the ghost)
300gig Maxtor SATA

i have also tried it with and without a SB Audigy 2 ZS Audio installed to i know that the sound isnt a issue

i run it all at stock speeds, all my drivers have been updated on a regular basis and my temps seem to be fine

i run all my games at 1680 by 1050

any ideas? :confused:
 
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i just realised that maybe this would be better in the hardware section so ill repost there and maybe a mod will delete this for me, sorry about that :p
 
Could be a background process, what do you have running? Try disabling as much as possible (virus scanners etc). Especially less mainstream stuff, say for your phone or an old bluetooth dongle. Random things like that. Unplug all usb devices and see if that helps and if it does plug each one in, one by one until you track it down.

Could be HDD access as well, download HDTune and run it, see if you see any sudden drops whilst benchmarking.

Also, have you installed the motherboard drivers? Try downloading and installing the latest from the manufacturers website.
 
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Does the problem occur in older games or just newer versions?

You could maybe remove some of the Memory and try and run an older game that won't take such a big performance hit with less memory and see if the bug occurs.

Alternatively why not try install one of the games that is producing the error to the other hard drive and run from there.?

You could also download an application which reduces the number of uneccessary processes running in the background to see if they are interfeering somehow. I'll try find the name of the tool as I saw it in an Arma 2 thread.
 
thanks for the replies :) i have tried running games on a fresh install of vista and win7 (only basic drivers installed) but the problem was still there so i dont think its anything to do with programs running

i also noticed that it happens a lot less with windows 7 than vista, also i have tried it on both my old 120gig and the new 500gig with the same thing :(

as for things plugged in all i am using is my mouse,keyboard and a charging cradle for the wii remote so ill take that out and see if there is any change
 
well after removing the wii charging cradle i think the problem might have gone away :)
i have only tried x3 so far so i cant be sure but its looking good
 
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