glitchy performance even w/ high fps

hoppa

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Apr 10, 2004
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It seems that, even at listed framerates of 100+, my performance in ut2k4 is still quite glitchy. when making quick turns it is most notable. it still feels fast, it just seems to be skipping frames. i am running at highest detail everything, but, interestingly enough, even when i turn the settings down to crap and push frames over 200 i still get the same thing. anyone have any ideas? could this be a problem with crappy ram?

abit an-7 nForce2
athlon xp 3000+ 333 fsb
9800 pro 128 mb
1 stick 512 mb kingston valueram pc2700
1 stick 512 mb ocz high performance* pc3500
audigy 1

*running at pc2700. my totally loaded friend got this stick of ram, saw that it wouldnt run stably at pc3500, and just gave it to me. i often wonder if it is the source of my problems. not that there are any others, really. i was actually having a problem w/ 3d mark 03 quitting out after 1 test that someone else on the forum was having, and people were suggesting it must be faulty ram, but lo and behold my motherboard arrived the next day and now the test runs fine. ive run the memory test thing on it too without problems.

so, any glaring problems that anyone can see? or am i screwed and have to deal with it.

-andy
 

gsaldivar

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I'm having the same problem with this new Nforce2-based mobo (see link below). I'm thinking that this will be my last Nforce mobo... :(

Try doing CTRl-ALT-DEL, press T for task manager, and End Task "explorer.exe". This will help minimize the glitchy performance. Make sure you aren't doing anything critical in Windows before quitting explorer.exe.

Hope this helps!
 

paruhd0x

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I was getting this with hyperthreading off on my P4 3.0GHz, but once i turned it on... it was smooth again. I have a Geforce 4 Ti4600.

Make sure everything is closed that can be closed, don't want UT sharing resources with something your not even using.
 

hoppa

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how do you turn vsync on..?

and doesn't explorer start right back up when you close it?