Game stuttering, whats the cause?

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Hi all,

I am having stuttering/pausing episodes with certain parts of gamelpay, well on one level of a certain game in particular.

C&C 3 Tiberium War, Rome level. Whenever I attack the Nod head on, with around 20 tanks and capured walkers, numerous troops and other vehicles, when they respond en mass with loads of troops and avitars, I get stuttering, where teh game pauses and starts until there are less forces on each side.

Now I have overclocked my E5200 to 3.1Ghz, OC'd my old PC3500LL to 220Mhz,
and even tried 4 gig of Corsair DDR2 6400 (2x2gb) to no avail.

OC'ing my HIS IceQ 3850 from stock to maximum and everything in between does not help.

PLaying the game on low/medium/high settings seems not to make much difference?

I am running the game from my DVD drive.

Any idea what hardware I need to get this damn level to run smoothly at max? Would a quad core help LOL
 
AULDGUY said:
Whats it like running from the Hard drive
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It only uses the DVD for a check, the game itself runs from the hard drive.

@OP Have you tried defragging your hard drive with Defraggler for example? Also you may want to run a virus/malware check then if all that fails, buy a faster hard drive.

How much video memory has your gfx card got?
 
sastusbulbas said:
PLaying the game on low/medium/high settings seems not to make much difference?
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That might hint toward bug/software problem.
You could try running monitoring program for logging CPU utilization if it's rising steadily with increase in number of units in game or peaking suddenly.

TaskInfo shows shorter time history.
Also Windows has built in tool which can monitor individual processes.
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=364754
 
That sounds very similar to the XTG series of games where a lot of processing power was also required to do some of the grafix(faster and better graffix cards never made a bit of difference)
found by cutting shadows of made the biggest diff.(weird)
 
i'm going to asume that you have the game installed but you just have the dvd in the drive for the copy protection. it should still be pulling all the files it needs from your hdd.

rts games are generally very cpu intensive so when you have a lot of action going on with a large ammount of forces it's going to kick the crap out of your cpu.

also your gfx card while ok is not amazing, if you have a lot of effects on this could also be causeing it. you could chech this by lowering not only all of your gfx settings but lowering your screen resolution. if it plays well like this. its more than likely your gfx card. i dont know your mobo but if its one of those asrock's with a pci-e aswell as an agp a gtx260 or 4870 1gb will be a nice upgrade, both are on special at the moment here.
 
Hi,

I don't have the game installed, never done such and no idea how to go about it?

I play from the DVD drive.

I have had the same problem for some time, even with my old AMD Sempron 3300 in my old Gigabyte board with DDR400 and the HIS AGP, old or new drivers no change in problem.

The current Asrock board has a E5200 and DDR2 (4gb) with Windows 7.
It only seems to be this level, which I find is probably the most intense with the largest enemy force utilised.

It makes no difference if I have every setting on its lowest, with 800+600 resolution, or everything on max with 1680+1050 resolution.

It does not seem to matter if I OC the E5200 to 3.3Ghz or run it at 2.5Ghz, the reason I added a little more Ram was to see if that would help, but no.

I usually have the game at max, it plays all other levels quite well, apart from a little loss in speed due to everything maxed out. I can also play Red Alert 3 on full without problem, though that installed on my hard drive itself.

My DVD drive is an old IDE Lite On.

My Hard drive is a Samsung Spinpoint 640 Gb Sata II 16mb cache.

My HIS is the overclocked IceQ 3850 512mb AGP model

Memory is Corsair XMS 6400 C5 4GB (2x2GB)

Starting to wonder if it may be the game disc?

My Windows Index readings are,
Processor @2.5 = 5.9
Memory (4gb DDR2) = 5.9
Graphics desktop = 7.9
Graphics gaming = 6.0
Primary hard disc = 5.9

Overall score 5.9

Could a scratched disc lead to such problems, or is the HIS card not good eenough even though it plays all other levels and a few other games on maximum at 1680?
 
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