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Stuttering in Farcry.....on me new 8800GTX...

ernysmuntz

ernysmuntz

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Hi there, dunno if you guys are familiar with "stuttering" in games....well of course you are. lol, thats pc gaming for you....but anyway I don't mean the normal stuff during disk activity...

I'm talking about the stutter some games like Doom3 (seems to do it on loads of people setups).

Anyways, pretty chuffed with me new 8800GTX but Farcry is running like a turd...

I know its nothing to do with the graphics card, it did it on me old 7800GTX and even me 6800GT on another computer, EXACTLY the same type of stutter\judder.

Basicaly it happens when you strafe in certain places, like if there is a large object in front of you, if you strage you can almost see its location being drawn on the screen as opposed to moving smoothly across.

I happens in scenes where there is lighting present.

It first happens at the start where you pick up the video radio thing on the crate just before you go outside for the first time, if you look behind you at the railings and the light directly above and then strafe you will see it.

Its also very noticeable where there is a giant rock on your right just before you go up the hill where the binochulars are in that tiny hut thing...

Anyone got any ideas...

I have a had a couple of installs of windows where it hasn't happened and its been ok, or I somehow managed to get rid of it without noticing, even managed to get rid of the Doom3 one somehow...

(It happens no matter how low I set the graphics)

Maybe its down to drivers...who knows :(

Anyway I've tried...

Disabling all USB devices
Vsync on\off (both in drivers\game)
APIC (tried enabling\disabling)
overclocking the PCI-E bus by a few mhz
overclocking\not overclocking graphics card
Disabling network cards
Disabling "write combining" in troubleshooting\display properties

....I think but I'm not sure...that I used to use something called "PCI latency tool" that cleared it up a long time ago...but that was one nforce2 and don't think it supports nforce4 properly, at least it wouldn't do the soundcard which is the most important one but I'm usng an old version so maybe its that...

Anyway, help would be appreciated, thank you for reading :)
 
omg why would you try and play farcry on this top end card , i mean people buy this card and its dx9 compatiable but you dont know that all dx9 games work on it so your bound to run in to glitch's , why not just wait till theres dx10 games released and play older games on a dx9 card..........................................blah
 
I ran Farcry the other day when i got my 8800GTX.

It runs fine, just some floor textures are black, but smooth as butter. All the latest DX9 games work fine, so i believe its just the games that just need patching.

Whats your CPU usage when idle in windows? any spikes?
 
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omg why would you try and play farcry on this top end card , i mean people buy this card and its dx9 compatiable but you dont know that all dx9 games work on it so your bound to run in to glitch's , why not just wait till theres dx10 games released and play older games on a dx9 card..........................................blah
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Ill just say WTF. :confused:

It could be something that you install after its been running fine on a fresh install, i used to get a pause every now and again in Oblivion, everytime something happened like when the first 2x rats come through the wall, it would pause for about a second or so then continue even though when id played it before it was perfect, i discovered it was some codec that id installed though, as id remebered at the time that the only new thing id installed was this codec, and sure enough when i removed it the pause vanished, and it was smooth as a babies butt again, installed the codec again just to make sure, and yes the stutter pause came back, so as said it cold be something that your installing.

If your gona do a re-install of windows again, then id install the game, test it to make sure its running fine, then start installing all your other stuff again, but testing the game everytime you install something else, that way if it is something that your installing thats tripping it up, you'll find out what it is. :)
 
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mosehn said:
omg why would you try and play farcry on this top end card , i mean people buy this card and its dx9 compatiable but you dont know that all dx9 games work on it so your bound to run in to glitch's , why not just wait till theres dx10 games released and play older games on a dx9 card..........................................blah
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Just stop talking rubbish now.

You are coming across as silly.
 
mosehn said:
omg why would you try and play farcry on this top end card , i mean people buy this card and its dx9 compatiable but you dont know that all dx9 games work on it so your bound to run in to glitch's , why not just wait till theres dx10 games released and play older games on a dx9 card..........................................blah
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Be gone with you troll...

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=8210302&postcount=20
 
mosehn said:
i just dont see how it makes sense to play these old games on this type of card ,
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so because he has a new card that means he shouldnt play old games, sorry but thats the most retarded thing i've seen someone say on these forums, easily.

I still play sof2 which in comparision with gtx->farcry is lol. does your rule still apply? :eek:
 
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i just dont see how it makes sense to play these old games on this type of card ,
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Because people still enjoy old games. Quite simple really. Buying a new card to play new games should not exclude you from playing your older games. Now THAT really would be stupid.
 
lol i must be a retard for playin RA2 on my X800pro(totally different and v.old card compared to g80 but same situation me thinks). wait, what am i thinking??? ditch the pro and stick me old radeon 7000 or geforce 2 back in to play old games! SCORE!
 
Maybe it's something to do with a conflict with another device?

It seems to be something that you are reusing in your builds that is causing the problem. It's a long shot, but have you got the latest drivers for your soundcard?
 
mosehn said:
omg why would you try and play farcry on this top end card , i mean people buy this card and its dx9 compatiable but you dont know that all dx9 games work on it so your bound to run in to glitch's , why not just wait till theres dx10 games released and play older games on a dx9 card..........................................blah
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stupid :rolleyes:
 
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