Race 07 stuttery: Nvidia drivers bad...?

[aznsound]

i'm not really sure where to post this but i think this is a driver issue...

the game i play is Race 07 which is a racing game... the problem is, it experiences a lot of micro stutters... i'm not very particular about small things like these but lately, it started to become really distracting...

the two things that seemed to help a lot is when i turned on v-sync and when i fixed page files to 3072mb... it helped but the stutters are still there and i've tried almost every setting combinations under the Nvidia control panel...

system is Vista 32, 2gb DDR2, Q6600, 2 x 8800GTS G92... tried both .16 and .19 Nvidia drivers...

the game is more processor intensive than it is graphics card... i think the way it works, the processor has to render the physics for each car on the track... but the problem with stutters that i'm experiencing happens even in practice mode where i'm the only car on the track...

i should also add that when i had Fraps on, the frame rates were at a constant 120fps... this is while the stutters are happening...

[DanFraser]

Try turning down the track detail. I don't know if you have this option, but this stuttering sounds like drive access to me.

[aznsound]

i've tried all that and also reducing the resolution... i'm currently at 1280x1024...

in the details setting, the only thing that really works is reducing the shadows to medium or low... but even then, it doesn't completely eliminate the problem...

if it's drive access, do you think a faster hard drive, faster memory, and or more memory will help...? since i'm using 32bit OS, i only have 1gb to go if i upgrade... my hard drive is a Seagate 250gb 7200rpm 8mb cache...

[ratbuddy]

Try changing the system from multi-GPU mode to multi-monitor.

[aznsound]

it seems like i've tried everything to fix this problem and running out of options i installed the 177.66 beta ForceWare... it seemed to have fixed the problem, although still not completely... it's most noticeable at the long front straight at Macau circuit but it's no where near as distracting as before... where as before, it's a driving distraction, but now, it's more or less just a graphical annoyance...

what's distracting is stuttering, no matter how small, while taking a corner... the beta driver seems to have fixed that...

i have to do some more testing though to make sure it's really fixed...

[aznsound]

ok, nevermind... 177.66 driver didn't fix it... what actually fixed it was when i set "maximum pre-rendered frames" to 8 from the default 3...

i thought it was the 177.66 driver because i changed the pre-rendered frames to 8 right after i installed the 177.66 driver... i had to go back to 175.19 because the 177.66 driver is so unstable with Race 07... i already had 3 times that it locked up the game and had to reset the computer to get out of it...

[ratbuddy]

Did you try what I suggested a couple posts up?

[aznsound]

hi, i didn't know exactly what you meant by multi GPU to multi monitor because there are separate settings for each of those... and yes, i've tried everything under each of those drop boxes... i've tried single GPU with SLI enabled as well as disabling SLI... none of those helped...