Originally posted by: liquid51
well, I tried everything we mentioned, with no change. It does seem strangely familiar to the stutter I get in doom3 and wow. It's not as smooth as those stutters though, if that makes any sense at all.
Ok so no parts overclocked, and all volts at default settings, correct? Oh another thing, make sure the BIOS is also on stock settings, not even optimal, go with the stock settings recommended for the best stability.
I forgot to mention before, make sure your PSU volts/rails are all good, if your PSU is fluctuating this could be causing your gaming issues. Yes PC Power and Cooling great stuff but you can still get a faulty one, or one that starts dying on you later.
Ok the next step is to actually use a higher quality sound card, not onboard sound. Poor sound cards, or onboard sound can cause game stutter, because this then becomes a point of bottleneck.
The best choice for cost is the X-Fi XtremeMusic.
http://www.creative.com/products/produc...gory=209&subcategory=669&product=14066
Now true there have been a lot of people having issues with these cards, but I can tell you this is my sound card and it works perfect.
And if it turns out the sound doesn't help it, either way you're still going to get better gaming/audio/media sound, so it's not a waste, but the sound card is something you have to change from onboard, because this can be causing the issue.
Now I take it you have played with different game video driver options, and have tried different drivers?
Actually right now the Nvidia stock 91.47 are the most stable out there to use.
You don't have your video cards overclocked do you? And what is the idle temp, and load temp when playing?
Now if everything here is check, then you should run a stress test to make sure there is no hardware issues that could be causing this issue.
Have you ever used Prime95 before?
http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft.htm
Step 1. ----> p95v2414.exe(1.1MB HTTP) or (FTP), or p95v2414.zip(1.1MB HTTP)
Run Prime for 24 hours.
Here are the steps:
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First, install the program as you would any other. Next, run it, and go to the ?Advanced? tab ? select ?Password?. Type in the password 9876 and enter it. Now go back to the ?Advanced? tab, and select ?Priority?. Set the priority level to 10.
This effectively gives all of your system resources to Prime95 when it is running ? now any processes running hidden in the background won?t be able to steal work time from Prime95, ensuring the most effective stress test possible.
At the very bottom of this post, a picture has been uploaded to further clarify Priority Ten setup for Prime95.
When you want to stress test your processor, run Prime95, go to the ?Options? tab, and select ?Torture Test?. Run the Torture test at the default settings.
Make sure that you have turned off any screensavers, and closed all other applications when Prime95 is running.
Prime95 should never be run in tandem with any other stress testing programs, period. Prime95 is known and proven to be most effective when run by itself, and is less thorough when used with something else running at the same time. If you use Motherboard Monitor Five to monitor your temperatures, you should turn the interval time way down ? 60 seconds is appropriate.
If you have an Intel processor with Hyper Threading, you need to run two instances of Prime95 for complete effectiveness. This is proven fact; in that two instances of Prime95 will catch instability that one instance won?t, on an Intel machine with HT. In order to run two instances simultaneously, simply install a second copy of Prime95 in a different folder, and run it in tandem with your original. Priority ten should be used for both instances of Prime95 in this case.
When you are stability testing with Prime95, you want to run the Torture Test for at least 24 hours. Why 24 hours?
There is a very common misconception that if your machine can pass Prime95 stability testing for, say, four hours, your machine will be able to run stable, regardless of what you are doing, for four hours as well, without issue. This is simply not the case.
Prime95 often finds errors in its 16th - 20th hour of testing, a potential for instability that wasn?t found after only four hours of testing. After only four hours of Prime95, the potential for instability still exists. 24 hours is widely viewed as a sufficient time period to catch any instability that may be present, but by all means test longer if you are able.
If 24 hours seems like an extraordinarily long time to leave your computer on, keeping your machine unusable because of the processes it?s doing, try running Prime95 overnight, and then through to all day while you?re at school or work.
For CPU specific testing, a Large FFT Prime95 test is an alternative to the more "system-stress" oriented Blend test that runs by default. The choice is ultimately up to the end user - the Blend test is reccomended in these guidelines because of it's qualities as both a processor and system stress test.
That?s all there is to Prime95 ? 24 hours of Prime95 at Priority ten is "certified stable", and ready to rock for 24/7 use.
This Prime95 info is from overclockers.com
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Then to really be safe I'd run memtest86+ v1.65 for 24 hours.
http://www.memtest.org/
Here are the steps:
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Please keep in mind that memtest86 can still error even with a completely stable memory system/subsystem. An unstable processor, or other system problems can also cause erroring in memtest86 - your memory is not the sole potential cause of memtest86 testing errors.
Note that memtest86+ can be run from a CD as well, via a pre-made, bootable, ISO image that you can download from the memtest86+ website, and then burn onto a blank CD. memtest86+ can still be installed on a floppy if one so desires, exactly as above.
After installing memtest86/memtest86+ onto a floppy, simply reboot your computer with the floppy still in the drive. memtest86 consists of 11 different tests (Note: The newest version of memtest contains only 9 tests, with the additional tests having been removed). By default, tests #1 through #7 will run in order, endlessly. For our purposes, this is perfect. Once memtest86/memtest86+ starts running, simply leave it, and let it go for 24 hours.
This memtest info is from overclockers.com
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Now true you are not overclocking, but that doesn't matter if you've never stress tested the system this is a good thing to do.
Last get 3DMark 06 Basic Edition (Free Version)
http://www.futuremark.com/download/3dmark06/
Run all sorts of tests with it, I mean just run all the basic game tests.
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