the stuttering curse

[ccarroll321]

Does anyone have any insight as to why my games stutter as if suggesting that I don't have enough memory in my system? For example, Fear, Oblivion, Sin emergence--why do they hiccup like I make-pretend-ram in my system?

It's not like it's going crazy every 2 minutes, it just hiccups, somewhat substantially, in the beginning of maps, and when I enter new areas. Sure, it's loading something, but why is it shooting to the hard disk? I remember reading an older HardOCP review on Doom3. There are systems less powerful then mine that, according to HardOCP, 'run flawlessly--with no hiccups, on ultra settings.' Though the framerates are fine, mine hiccups relatively frequently. I'm not decoding dvds in the background, or downloading anything. Even if I disable the virus scanner I still have the same hiccup problem.

c

[Cyberlon]

This may be helpful: make sure you have enough disk space on drive c:

Windows automatically uses the root drive for virtual memory, and if the paging file size needs to be adjusted, it will cause a short hiccup in most games. The paging file needs enough space to be at least double of what you have physically installed in RAM. So 1GB of RAM = 2GB of disk space used for the swap file. Also, defrag the root drive. Hope this helps, as I had the same circumstance and it helped me a lot.

[simple_inhibition]

also have you tried the latest drivers? what about the AMD dual core patch? what resolution are you playing at and how much ram do you have?

[garetjax]

Originally Posted by ccarroll321

Does anyone have any insight as to why my games stutter as if suggesting that I don't have enough memory in my system? For example, Fear, Oblivion, Sin emergence--why do they hiccup like I make-pretend-ram in my system?

It's not like it's going crazy every 2 minutes, it just hiccups, somewhat substantially, in the beginning of maps, and when I enter new areas. Sure, it's loading something, but why is it shooting to the hard disk? I remember reading an older HardOCP review on Doom3. There are systems less powerful then mine that, according to HardOCP, 'run flawlessly--with no hiccups, on ultra settings.' Though the framerates are fine, mine hiccups relatively frequently. I'm not decoding dvds in the background, or downloading anything. Even if I disable the virus scanner I still have the same hiccup problem.

c

I play those same games and have the same problems at times. The only time I experience the hiccuping or lag is right when scripted content is about to be introduced. Other than that, I have no other issues with hiccuping or lag in these types of games. I think it's just the game itself, not a hardware issue at least in my case, because several people I know experience the same thing when scripted events are introduced and they get in-game hiccups and lag.

[ccarroll321]

I have 2 gig of ram, 512 of graphics ram, the dual core patch, and the x2 processor driver (1.3.2.0) from 5/27/06. Also, I have 22gig of space left on the C drive--all defragmented.

Is there anyone out there that doesn't have these problems?

c

[Cyberlon]

I play FEAR and Oblivion, but don't have what you call stutter, on a machine a lot slower than yours, with less RAM. I'm also not playing at super high resolution. I do get ONE stutter in each game on BF2142, at the end of the loading screen for a map, the audio stutters once consistently but that's as close as I can get now. Here is another idea to try if you like: lower the quality settings down as far as you can stand, and see if it still stutters... this way you will know if it's a texture loading into memory or something else altogether. (like a background application, etc.) Once you find this out, you can then raise your settings back to normal.

[gvblake22]

As a last resort, you could try uninstalling and then reinstalling the game...
I've also played Oblivion with similar hardware (less RAM though) and have had no problems. Your computer is very capable, seems to me like there is just some odd software glitch somewhere that is messing it up.