help me cure stuttering

chaotic_uk

chaotic_uk

chaotic_uk

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please help me cure the stuttering i am getting in all games , at first i thought it to be my gfx card . but i tested fc2 @1024x768 and @1680x1050 , my system stats are below

CPU Model
Phenom II x3 720BE
Video Card:
Sapphire HD4870 512
Motherboard:
MSI KA790GX
Ram:
Kingston HyperX 8500 4GB
Storage:
Hitachi 7K160 Deskstar
Soundcard & Speakers:
Sound Blaster Audigy SE
Power Supply
Seasonic S12+ 550w
Case
Coolermaster cm690
Operating System: OS
vista 32bit
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my farcry2 ultra results :

@1024x768
Average Framerate: 48.09
Max. Framerate: 76.58
Min. Framerate: 31.99

@1650x1050
Average Results
Average Framerate: 51.10
Max. Framerate: 81.97
Min. Framerate: 33.30
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as you can see not much between the 2 results , but even at 1024x768 it still stutters . i have tried all the drivers for my chipset and gfx thats been released in the last 6 months , but the stuttering still remains no matter what i try . what would you recommend i do next ? , same results with my old mobo also (gigabyte ma-770-ds3) . even relaced my memory to kingston hyperX 8500 2x2gb instead of 4x1gb corsair dominator
 
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Do you have AVG installed by any chance? That's quite a pain for this sort of thing. Is the HDD LED flashing when it stutters? I had this issue and getting rid of AVG solved it :)

Might be worth using filemon if so to verify if something is going on in the background.
 
Solari said:
Do you have AVG installed by any chance? That's quite a pain for this sort of thing. Is the HDD LED flashing when it stutters? I had this issue and getting rid of AVG solved it :)

Might be worth using filemon if so to verify if something is going on in the background.
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was just going to say the same thing.
Got rid of AVG for Avast and all is well :)
 
For my phenom ii setup i found Cool n Quiet to cause it the most for me, as the constant transistion between multiplers seemed to affect certain games like FC2 quite badly for me at least. Tis a shame disabling it though as it keeps the juice on low when browsing the web n such.
 
Chaotic - leave filemon running and see if there's anything with bursty access to the HDD, that's the usual cause... heavy IO access causing things to come to a standstill.

What services and other stuff do you have running?
 
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