75fps in NFS Pro Street but stuttering

[Drinkyoghurt]

Hi guys,

I just got NFS Pro Street, the graphics look ok to me, the handling is aweful with a keyboard but I'll survive that, but what I do hate is having 60-75fps and still having the game stutter on me like crazy. I am pretty certain BOINC is turned off, so that can't be it, but I really don't know what's causing it, even using lower settings won't fix it :confused:

so does anybody know how to fix this?

[PhysX]

perhaps drivers ? there is no reason at all it should be doing that "hardware wise".

[thideras]

Do you have hard drive seeks when it stutters?

[Drinkyoghurt]

yes sometimes, but now after a restart it is far less frequent, but still the game looks like it's going 20fps even though it's putting out 70 :confused:

defragmentation time?

[thideras]

but still the game looks like it's going 20fps even though it's putting out 70 :confused:No, that is EA for you...;)

Sound like something was running in the background. You don't have VMWare installed by any chance do you?

[extraoddsnends]

defrag and check it then

[Leviathan41]

Yeah check and see what is running in the background, make sure every non-essential thing is closed and kill all non-essential processes then test again. If it doesn't lag it's likely a program running in the background that is causing it to stutter.

[Drinkyoghurt]

No, that is EA for you...;)

Sound like something was running in the background. You don't have VMWare installed by any chance do you?

no VMWare here

I am defragmenting atm, even though the windows thing said it wasn't needed, man I need to get partition magic

[extraoddsnends]

I use diskeeper 08 works great IMO