F.E.A.R STUTTERS ON MY X19000XT

[santz]

update on things:


New PSU arrived yesterday
new video card arrives this monday april 10

Also, a buddy of mine was worried about it and bought a new PSU for me as a surprise, (WTF, now i have to return that too).

That makes a total of 3 psus sitting over here with me, Stock dell 375W psu, antec 500w smart power 2.0 (unopened and packed), antec 430w trupower 2.0 (unopened and packed)

this is turning out to be quite F#$%^&xxx (cant think of a word here).........

will keep you all updated

 

[VERTIGGO]

$.02: FEAR is buggy. I get stutters sometimes on my rig. (2GB DDR500, 2.7GHz 165, X1900XT? cmon!)

 

[BFG10K]

$.02: FEAR is buggy. I get stutters sometimes on my rig

Are you overclocking? If you so how can you make the claim that Fear is the problem?

 

[VERTIGGO]

FEAR is just like that, just like when it auto saves, and you move into bigger environments, it hangs a few times loading the graphics. Probably because at 1920x12 it uses tons of VRAM.

 

[santz]

Originally posted by: Acanthus

Originally posted by: santz

Originally posted by: ddogg
instead of returning the PSU might as well use it...u may always want to add additional stuff later!

True........true ( self thought)

Your current power supply is more powerful than the one your purchased.

i know.......I know *sigh*, it was just a impulse thought, thats y i have not installed them yet!

 

[Philippine Mango]

When you say stuttering, do you mean that every time you move forward, like every 3 seconds it looks like it skips a frame or something? I had this thing with my 9800 pro when I first got it, my only solution was to RMA it, ATI may not RMA your card unless you let them know you've got graphical glitches etc.. My card would do the stuttering thing in 3D games when ever the character would move forward, it was very irritating and confusing since I had a framerate of 60FPS in a particular game with it doing this. Finally after a year, the card began to overheat for unknown reasons and that was finally my ticket to RMAing it. So I would try to RMA it if the powersupply ISN'T at fault.

 

[rasczak]

Originally posted by: Acanthus
Power supply usually causes crashing and errors, rarely will an underpowerd power supply cause performance issues.

Id point to 1GB of memory being the issue.

Does it run at fast fps and "stutter", or run slow at slow fps?

What was your old video card? Is it a fresh install?

not entirely true. I was running a 6800 ultra on a 350w enermax, I wasn't getting enough power to my video card so windows actually throttled my Ultra.


**edit** I feel like a dolt not completely reading the thread. Yes your video card is your problem. RMA as every else has stated. sorry for being a botehr good night to you all

 

[santz]

Got the new x19000 30 minutes ago and just finished installing it after going through the driver cleaner.

i am going to try to play fear and oblivion and see what happens.

 

[santz]

Final update: (happy and sad)

Fear running at high settings with NO problems whatsoever, i tried to switch off the vsync and fear gave me fps of 100 upward, even thoguh my lcd can only display up to 75hz

oblivion runs as smooth as a warm knife going through butter. finally all problems resolved.

I really thank all of you for helping me out and being patient and listening to me. I know that if i had not consulted you all, i would have though this was normal and would have continiued playing on the defective video card for a long time.

also sad that this is comming to an end. I feel so relieved though that Its done and finished with.

thanks and cya

 

[Smartazz]

It's definatly your ram I had a gig of ram too and it stuttered so much I couldn't play it, I added 512mb more and it's fine now.