Stuttering while gaming...

Gilbretto

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A friend is having an issue with stuttering while gaming.

The set up is as follows;

8800GTS 128MB
AMD Athlon X2 6000+
4 GB Ram

He is running a 22" HP W2207 monitor (dvi to dvi) and a 42" LG5000 tv (dvi to hdmi) from his 8800GTS.

The problem;

When playing the game Pro Evolution Soccer 10 through his monitor the game stutters around like the computer is struggling to cope. But if he plays the game through his 42" TV it is fine.

Gfx drivers are all up to date.

Any idea's?

Thanks,

Gil.
 
The graphics card memory should be 320, 512 or 640MB as there was never a 128MB model. If it's reporting 128MB then it might have a problem. Also check what resolutions you are using in the two environments; if you're running at 1680 x 1050 on the monitor but only using the TV in 720p mode then that might explain the difference.
 
It's likely that your two screens are running a different resolution, I would imagine the 22" runs at 1680x1050 natively and the 42" running at a lower resolution, despite being a larger screen.

Check the resolutions being used by each tv when playing the game and hopefully that might shed some light on the situation. Any number of factors around the graphical settings could cause it.
 
He said that he 'thinks' it was 128MB so clearly he thought wrong! Well, it will be the lowest spec i would have thought, so call it 320MB.

In the game settings it won't run over 1024×768 but the monitor is rated at 1680x1050.

Would it be a case of forcing the monitors res down to 1024x768 to match the game?
 
Setting the resolution to something lower than the native resolution of the monitor or the TV shouldn't make any difference to performance; it should just result in the image being less sharp and probably stretched too because the aspect ratio is different.
 
CBJ said:
Setting the resolution to something lower than the native resolution of the monitor or the TV shouldn't make any difference to performance; it should just result in the image being less sharp and probably stretched too because the aspect ratio is different.
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Eh, I think you are quite wrong there. Setting the resolution lower DOES change performance. The gfx card has to render everything at a lower resolution = faster.
 
No, you missed my point. What I was saying was that if the maximum resolution of the game is 1024x768 then whether you run it on a monitor that has that as it's native resolution or on a monitor with a native resolution much higher than that should make no difference.
 
CBJ said:
No, you missed my point. What I was saying was that if the maximum resolution of the game is 1024x768 then whether you run it on a monitor that has that as it's native resolution or on a monitor with a native resolution much higher than that should make no difference.
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Ok yeah I missed it, sorry! :rolleyes:
 
Driver version, OS and architecture (x86 or x64?), what PCI-E lane is the card in etc??

would he want to try overclocking his card abit?

Finally, as said if the game runs fine on a the tv this is likely because of the res size, monitors although smaller output a higher res (try playing the game at 1440x900 and less graphic details)
 
To be fair an 8800GTS should run pro evo fine even at 1680x1050, it's not exactly the most demanding of games. What I did find in the demo was it suffers terribly from tearing as you can't seem to force vsync on.
Don't know whether or not this has been fixed for the final release though.

Sounds like a driver issue to me, especially as he can't seem to pick the correct resolution to play at, I never had that issue even in the demo.
 
coupe69 said:
To be fair an 8800GTS should run pro evo fine even at 1680x1050, it's not exactly the most demanding of games.
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Well unless it has been optimised a lot, i remember playing Pes2008 on a 8800GT (1GB superclocked version) and i got fps drops, had to turn the detail down abit, this was also on a 22" widescreen monitor (1680x1050)
 
toon_mad said:
Well unless it has been optimised a lot, i remember playing Pes2008 on a 8800GT (1GB superclocked version) and i got fps drops, had to turn the detail down abit, this was also on a 22" widescreen monitor (1680x1050)
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I can only imagine something must have been wrong with your configuration toon. Both pro evo 08 and 09 have run fine for me, a constant 60fps @ the higest settings on my htpc @ 1080p, which coincidentally has an 8800GT 1GB along with a core 2 E7300 @ 3.6GHz.

You only have to look at the minimum and recommended system requirements for pro evo 2010 to realise it's not exactly hard going on a modern pc.

Minimum system requirements:

Operating System: Windows XP (SP2) / Windows Vista
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz or equivalent processor
Memory: 1 GB RAM or more
Hard Drive: 8 GB Free
Video Card (graphics): 128 MiByte, Pixel Shader 2.0, Nvidia Geforce FX series or Ati Radeon 9700 series or better
Sound Card: DirectX compatible audio hardware
DirectX: 9.0c

Recommended system requirements:

Operating System: Windows XP (SP2) / Windows Vista
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz or equivalent processor
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Hard Drive: 8 GB Free
Video Card (graphics): 256MB Pixel Shader 3.0, NVIDIA GeForce 7900 or AMD/ATI Radeon HD2600 or better
Sound Card: DirectX compatible audio hardware
DirectX: 9.0c


Can I suggest the OP directs his friend to this forum. There's far more usefull advice there than we could ever give him here.
 
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