First of all, it happens with about every single game I have, even older games stutter on my X1900XT, which shouldn't be happening. Before this, I had a 7800GT, and I had no stuttering on the 7800GT. The stuttering is like this: I'll run 10 feet in FEAR and it'll be choppy along the way, even with AA and all the shadows turned off(even the regular shadows), and every 10 feet or so, it'll freeze up for 5-7 seconds and then continue for 10 more feet where it'll lock up again.
Half Life 2: Lost Coast likes to stutter a bit, and when I get to the part where it's near where the wooden stair case breaks apart, it freezes up for 5 seconds.
Far Cry also has a little stuttering but overall performs OK, and Pacific Fighters, when starting a single mission, will start for 4 seconds and then will lock up for 2 seconds and then will go somewhat smoothly and do well.
I'm mainly playing at 1600*1200 with 4xAA and 16xAFHQ, which the X1900XT should be able to take, but it stutters with even no AA.
I have tried installing every ATI Catalyst driver and turning down the resolutions and AA and detail settings and it won't quit stuttering. It's mainly the DirectX games that do this, as the OpenGL games don't do this as much. I need your advice on how I can stop this stuttering and make my games run smooth for once.
My PSU is a PC Power and Cooling 510-SLI, BTW, and my CPU is an S939 Athlon 64 3500+ and I have 2 gigs of PC2700 ram. My motherboard is an Abit KN8 Ultra.
And yes, I used driver cleaner to get rid of the Nvidia drivers, but I didn't do a clean install of windows XP, but I don't know if a clean install of XP is needed or not, because I've read that it was, but I don't know for sure.
I turned FEAR down from 1600*1200 maxed out at 4xaa and 16xHQAF and went to 1152*864 with medium settings and no AA and the same AF settings and it helped some, but it still froze up for 2 seconds in the same areas. It happens everytime I enter a new room or area, and sometimes even when just walking around. The only thing that got rid of a good amount of the stuttering was 640*480 with ABSOLUTE MINIMUM SETTINGS.
Turns out I had V-sync on so I turned it off and although I do get the 5-second freeze ups when entering a new area, it performs much better now. 😱
Half Life 2: Lost Coast likes to stutter a bit, and when I get to the part where it's near where the wooden stair case breaks apart, it freezes up for 5 seconds.
Far Cry also has a little stuttering but overall performs OK, and Pacific Fighters, when starting a single mission, will start for 4 seconds and then will lock up for 2 seconds and then will go somewhat smoothly and do well.
I'm mainly playing at 1600*1200 with 4xAA and 16xAFHQ, which the X1900XT should be able to take, but it stutters with even no AA.
I have tried installing every ATI Catalyst driver and turning down the resolutions and AA and detail settings and it won't quit stuttering. It's mainly the DirectX games that do this, as the OpenGL games don't do this as much. I need your advice on how I can stop this stuttering and make my games run smooth for once.
My PSU is a PC Power and Cooling 510-SLI, BTW, and my CPU is an S939 Athlon 64 3500+ and I have 2 gigs of PC2700 ram. My motherboard is an Abit KN8 Ultra.
And yes, I used driver cleaner to get rid of the Nvidia drivers, but I didn't do a clean install of windows XP, but I don't know if a clean install of XP is needed or not, because I've read that it was, but I don't know for sure.
I turned FEAR down from 1600*1200 maxed out at 4xaa and 16xHQAF and went to 1152*864 with medium settings and no AA and the same AF settings and it helped some, but it still froze up for 2 seconds in the same areas. It happens everytime I enter a new room or area, and sometimes even when just walking around. The only thing that got rid of a good amount of the stuttering was 640*480 with ABSOLUTE MINIMUM SETTINGS.
Turns out I had V-sync on so I turned it off and although I do get the 5-second freeze ups when entering a new area, it performs much better now. 😱
