UT3 - Stuttering during loading

[FatRakoon]

Thankfully the game plays spot on, however, during the loading sequences, when there is a guy talking absolute tripe about whatever the hell it is, he is tryign to say, he stutters or rather pauses a few times for a few seconds.

I know it does nothing and I know that the junk he is spouting is exactly that... Junk, its still annoying me.

It does this on every single one of my PCs so, I assume it does it on everyones so is there a way to stop it?

It does it on Intel & AMD, ATI+nVidia, 32+64Bit, XP+Vista

Oh, the only thing I do admit is that my game machiens are all running off Creative cards... I will try that now actually.

 

[FatRakoon]

Does the same thing on my rig too -- Core 2 Duo @ 3GHz, 4GB RAM, ASUS P5K board, Geforce 8800 GT.

Using onboard sound on mine, so I don't think the Creative cards you're using will be the link.

Ok, so sound card not the issue then... Or at least not any creative issue at least.

Thanks for that

Is this as you are loading maps I presume?
If so it will happen. There is nothing you can do about it as far as I know

Its the level streaming built into the engine. The bear minimum will load and once you are in game textures and meshes carry on loading, I imagine your harddrive could possibly be struggling to load it all as quickly as the rest of your system wants it.

HD is more than capable I would have assumed.

In fact, my No.2 PC has its D: Drive on a pair of 200GB Drives Raided and that also does it.

 

[FatRakoon]

Clearly, we have PCs that are more than capable.

Seems to me that the programmers are perhaps tryign to stream the audio as well as the Game data???

WhingingGit=ON
Is it not possible to simply load in the voice-over as an OGG/MP3 and then simply play it while the gam,e data is loading up??? - Even I can do that on a 20 year old PC FFS why cant the programmers of this game?

 

[FatRakoon]

But Im running a pair of 8800Ultras and its stuttering on that???

WTF?

Sod it, I have not actually tried it on a 6600GT yet... Im going to have a laugh just to see what happens?

Incidentally, I wonder if it will actually try playing it? - it says 6200 on the box??? - I know, I got a Socket 754 board here thats got 6200 onboard!!! - right, Smegporn 2600 coming up!

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Actually on a more serious note, how is it possible for such a silly issue that should never have happened in the first place, be such a problem for them to solve??? HOW???

 

[FatRakoon]

Yeah, really angry.

We all know its useless junk info, but its still part of the game and so oyu know that you are not runnign it 100% right and that kind of chews into your brain a little.

 

[FatRakoon]

Mate sell your 8800ultras why they are still worth something and get either 4850x2 or 4870 you will get better performance. 4850 is 20-30% faster than a single 8800GTX...........

So, in other words, you mean sell both my cards AND my Mobo?

Nah, these are still stupidly higher performance than I could ever use ( I only have a 19" screen capable of 1280x1024 so they are not exactly getting pushed as it is... buying better will be justa waste of time & money.

My plan is however, by xmas, to give my 2 boys one of these cards at the same time, my daughter is getting dual core at last ( Poor girl has been stuck on Socket 754 ClawHammer 3700 ( Stuck? - it was only 10 minutes ago, I dreamed of having one??? ) )