9700 stuttering problem

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Happens in Q3 only as far as I can tell. Playing D3 on the card too, but that's such a slow paced game that I'm not even sure that I'd notice.... Anyway, I'll be playing along (at a very steady 125 fps) and about every minute or so the game will hang for a split second. I disabled fast writes, don't have the card currently OC'd, have all the latest drivers for the card, MB, and windows, and the problem persists. I do not have this problem on the exact same system with a GF4 4200. Even tried a fresh XP install and that didn't help. If I can't fix this I'm going to sell the 9700 and keep the 4200, and that plays D3 just about as fast at 1 notch lower resolution. (have to drop to 800x600 but game still looks great). Any helpful tips are appreciated. Thanks!

 

[Algere]

System specs?

 

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sry...

Asus a7n8x rev 2
Barton 2500 running at 3200
1 gig (3 sticks) various memory running at 133 fsb <gasp>
Radeon 9700 np <stock> OR GF4 4200 128 clocked to the moon. <no issues>
Tried the Omega 4.7 cats and the standard 4.8 cats. Maybe I'll try the beta 4.9's next.

I have clocked the CPU down to stock and the problem is stilll there. The GF4 is like butter.

 

[ronnn]

Latency may be the issue. Never had that problem myself, so not sure. You may have to register at driverheaven to view this thread.

 

[Killrose]

Try reloading just the AGP drivers for the nForce2 chipset.

 

[IvanAndreevich]

AGP Fastwrite -> OFF. New bios -> flash.

 

[BFG10K]

Are you running background programs in your system tray like anti-virus?

Do you have the latest BIOS, chipset drivers and ATi reference drivers installed?