rashal
08-25-05, 05:28 AM
Hello.
I've been having slight problems with games ever since I installed my new rig. While I play games like Doom3, F.E.A.R, and BF2 (doesnt happen on HL2 though), I get some stutters (like real heavy ones, near freezing) for about a secound or two, and than everything goes on as smooth as it was before... this happens every time something new happens, like every time I get in a new area, or look at a something new... As if stuff is being loaded somewhere. It usually happens at the beggining of the gaming time, and doesnt happen when I'm a few minutes into the game. as if things get warmed up after starting cold.
My specs:
A64 venice 3200+
DFI lanparty UT nf4 ultra -D (23/6 bios)
Gig'o ram. Mushkin Redlines XP4000 (downclocked to 200mhz running 1:1 of cource, solid as a rock at 2-2-2-5, 3v) 512x2mb
Hitachi deskstar SATA 120GB (8mb buffer something)
Geforce 6600GT (the 128mb gddr3 thingie) by XFX
And now for some recent history.
The first time I started this computer it was with a gig'o mushkin blackline ram (512x2, 2-2-2-5). The memory itself was defective and had a hard time running 1T timings on most latencies. Before I was fully aware of these problems I installed windows and all drivers. At first I installed all the chipset drives that came along with the DFI disk. Old nforce drives which werent even for x64 windows. Anyways I experianced some game crashes and slight stutters (as I described above).
I RMAed my mushkins, got some redlines, installed them, lunched windows, updated nforce drivers.... Everything seemed to work fine but new games (such as BF2 and FEAR) hard locked evey once in a while on very specific spots (for example FEAR locked at level loading, and if I pressed esc to access the menu in the middle of the game). Anywas, I got ****ed and formatted the crap out of everything.
New windows. Installed fresh 6.66 nforce drivers, fresh 77.77 vga drivers, downloaded the realtek drivers 3.75 for the sound module (I think it's 3.75, cant recall). Without the sound drivers installed, windows boots in about half a secound (unlike the 30 secound piriod it took it to boot before I formatted), with sound drivers installed it takes it around 3-5 secounds. Kinda annoying and I guess it's because the sound drivers arent 100% x64 compatible. Anyways I had KOTOR2 handy so I installed and played it, not stutters... But I guess it doesnt count as a resource demanding modern game...
Now I looked around the net for some answers, and I stumbled on a term called "texture decompression delay". That seems to suit my problem very well as it seems like there is a delay when textures decompress for the first time... I'm not sure if this problem remains now that I formatted and installed everything properly, but if it does remain, how can I get rid of it? Also, it might be possible that the hard lock problem is still there also. I'll have to check both though.
Now one major thing I had in mind was the harddrive sata drivers... OH ****! now I remembered! The mobo came with a small disk that had something related to sata written on it... Could the sata drive thingie cause issues like I described above (I mean the absence of them)? Anyways, I'm sure I'm having software issues since well coded games like HL2 run flawlessly...
Any suggestions or comments? Thanks for your time.
I've been having slight problems with games ever since I installed my new rig. While I play games like Doom3, F.E.A.R, and BF2 (doesnt happen on HL2 though), I get some stutters (like real heavy ones, near freezing) for about a secound or two, and than everything goes on as smooth as it was before... this happens every time something new happens, like every time I get in a new area, or look at a something new... As if stuff is being loaded somewhere. It usually happens at the beggining of the gaming time, and doesnt happen when I'm a few minutes into the game. as if things get warmed up after starting cold.
My specs:
A64 venice 3200+
DFI lanparty UT nf4 ultra -D (23/6 bios)
Gig'o ram. Mushkin Redlines XP4000 (downclocked to 200mhz running 1:1 of cource, solid as a rock at 2-2-2-5, 3v) 512x2mb
Hitachi deskstar SATA 120GB (8mb buffer something)
Geforce 6600GT (the 128mb gddr3 thingie) by XFX
And now for some recent history.
The first time I started this computer it was with a gig'o mushkin blackline ram (512x2, 2-2-2-5). The memory itself was defective and had a hard time running 1T timings on most latencies. Before I was fully aware of these problems I installed windows and all drivers. At first I installed all the chipset drives that came along with the DFI disk. Old nforce drives which werent even for x64 windows. Anyways I experianced some game crashes and slight stutters (as I described above).
I RMAed my mushkins, got some redlines, installed them, lunched windows, updated nforce drivers.... Everything seemed to work fine but new games (such as BF2 and FEAR) hard locked evey once in a while on very specific spots (for example FEAR locked at level loading, and if I pressed esc to access the menu in the middle of the game). Anywas, I got ****ed and formatted the crap out of everything.
New windows. Installed fresh 6.66 nforce drivers, fresh 77.77 vga drivers, downloaded the realtek drivers 3.75 for the sound module (I think it's 3.75, cant recall). Without the sound drivers installed, windows boots in about half a secound (unlike the 30 secound piriod it took it to boot before I formatted), with sound drivers installed it takes it around 3-5 secounds. Kinda annoying and I guess it's because the sound drivers arent 100% x64 compatible. Anyways I had KOTOR2 handy so I installed and played it, not stutters... But I guess it doesnt count as a resource demanding modern game...
Now I looked around the net for some answers, and I stumbled on a term called "texture decompression delay". That seems to suit my problem very well as it seems like there is a delay when textures decompress for the first time... I'm not sure if this problem remains now that I formatted and installed everything properly, but if it does remain, how can I get rid of it? Also, it might be possible that the hard lock problem is still there also. I'll have to check both though.
Now one major thing I had in mind was the harddrive sata drivers... OH ****! now I remembered! The mobo came with a small disk that had something related to sata written on it... Could the sata drive thingie cause issues like I described above (I mean the absence of them)? Anyways, I'm sure I'm having software issues since well coded games like HL2 run flawlessly...
Any suggestions or comments? Thanks for your time.