Graphics card Choppy performance

[Kyo]

Graphics card Choppy performance (Fixed)!

Hi

Not 100% sure if it my graphics card drivers or something else but recently i upgraded to 6.8 Cats and all seemed well after a few weeks use. I did install the chuck patch all was ok. However yesterday i did a full defrag and used regcleaner to delete redundant reg entries. There was a few of reference to .net entries but i have done this a zillion times and it never had a problem as the cleaner basically looks for reg entries that not tied to existing programs or OS and has never picked up wronglly vital system/OS entries before.

However it appears after i implemented the full defrag and regcleaner it has somewhat made the performance worse in games as by doing the above it somehow made peformance choppy. Oblivion and Titan Quest is a lot more choppy but CSS still seems fine.

Was thinking it probably down to the drivers so going to go home and uninstall proper and do a full clean reinstall tonight including the .netfix part and probably going back to the 6.5 drivers.

Anyone think i am on the right lines or do you think it something else, The other possiblity could be the HD isn't reading info properly but it a guess tbh.

Thanks in advance.

Kyo

 

[Kyo]

Thanks for the help guys...... it took a while and a bit of work but I manage to sort this one out myself.

However i suppose i owe to the ones that may come across this problem in the future.

It ended up to be the use of driver cleaner when i was upgrading my drivers Cat 6.8 as it good practise to do a clean install. When you run it (which i do regularly when i had my nvidia card for driver updates) you should normally remove all references to the gfx drivers + entries

I made the fatal mistake of assuming the same principle for ATI. So in Drive Cleaner i basically ran and removed all references of ATI list on the component list Tv wonder/Tuner/ etc etc as the only reference in my system linking to ATI should be my gfx card... so i thought.

It ended up ommiting references/files for video and audio codec's from my system in the background. This was a nightmare as the difficulty was that the OS believed it still had them so when it came to using it, it would hang my system and stutter to find the correct audio codec to play.

The biggest problem was I couldn't simply install/reinstall the program that packaged these codecs as the OS believes the components were all registered and working. So eventually after identifying the exact problems i had to find a decent codec pack which uninstalled and removed all broken components and references. Once done it simply reinstall the codecs and viola!

So if your running Drive Cleaner make sure you only remove the components listed in add/remove programs and not assume tuner/tv wonder etc and other ati references listed are exclusive to ati.

Hope it helps.

Kyo

 

[Arthalen]

Now thats a bit bizarre, but I've been installing/uninstalling drivers all over the place, and using DriverCleaner Pro between the install/unistall.

And like yourself I've been selecting ALL Ati components.

Out of interest, which Codec pack did you use to uninstall then re-install everything ??

 

[Kyo]

Now thats a bit bizarre, but I've been installing/uninstalling drivers all over the place, and using DriverCleaner Pro between the install/unistall.

And like yourself I've been selecting ALL Ati components.

Out of interest, which Codec pack did you use to uninstall then re-install everything ??

that what i thought but tbh i never used DCP before for the ati software as i normally used the way loadsamoney suggeted and just uninstall in add/remove and it works perfectly. So not sure what possessed me to do it differently, in this instance good practise got me into this mess. Was starting sweat thinking i had to reformat/rebuild. At least it taught me a lesson to save the registry and restore points on a regular basis and espeically before drivers or component upgrades/changes.

Used K-Lite full 2.77 beta.