Experiencing sound stuttering, mouse trails & screen freezing in Games (Rome - Total War & Everquest (Platinum)). I have not had the same experience in Doom3, which runs perfectly. I am also able to run WMP and any audio from CD without issue.
I have attempted to run the first two games on the lowest settings with no improvement. I have reinstalled RTW twice and also applied the patch. I have also updated all of my drivers (sound & display). DirectX: 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c).
This is very frustrating, new fully capable machine not being able to play these games.
Any ideas other than the above would be appreciated. Thanks.
OS: MS XP Pro | DirectX: 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c) | Motherboard: DFI LANParty UT nF3 250Gb | Chipset: nVIDIA nForce3 250Gb, AMD Hammer | CPU: AMD Athlon 64, 2000 MHz (10 x 200) 3000+ | System Memory: 1024 MB (DDR SDRAM) | BIOS Type: Award (08/27/04) | Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT (256 MB) | Audio Adapter: nVIDIA MCP2-S - Audio Codec Interface