General question about games

geeza · 14 Oct 2006 at 11:10

How come a lot of my games play really smoothly but at the start for about a minute or 2 they stutter? Take F.E.A.R for example, the test things says everything is 100% over 40fps or whatever is the highest, then in multiplayer on a new map or when i change weapon it goes all crappy for a couple of minutes?

Really annoying in car games when you go round a corner and it just stops and you then end up in a barrier/wall :mad:

Ive never seen a console game do this, so is it just the **** coding of programmers or do I need a raptor drive?

geeza · 14 Oct 2006 at 12:38

Biohazard said:
your computer has a lot more processes going on than a console would

operating system and a few program. how come some new games work great and some run terribly?

geeza · 14 Oct 2006 at 15:38

Boogle said:
You probably need more RAM. 2GB would do nicely. If you already have 2GB - it might be worthwhile to cleanup your PC. Run AV, anti-spyware, defrag, remove unnecessary applications.

I have

opteron [email protected]
2gb (gskill HZ)
X1800XT

44 processes running on task manager, norton antivirus and norton firewall, msn, daemon tools, creative sound thing, motherboard monitor and something for my phone

geeza · 14 Oct 2006 at 15:51

Ulfhedjinn said:
44 processes is a huge amount in my opinion.

geeza · 14 Oct 2006 at 18:46

Boogle said:
Well there's your problem Norton does nothing but cripple performance. It would be ok if it could catch a virus, but then again that would make it useful software as opposed to the malware that it is. Creative doesn't need to run in the background unless you really want to add effects to all sounds. MBM is ok - but remember its probing your hardware every few seconds.

what virus prog and firewall do you recommend? I was thinking AVG free and just windows firewall (or is windows firewall crappy)