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HL 2 Stuttering Sound/Video

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I did the

-heapsize 512000 +cl_smooth 0

trick in the launch properties for HL2 and it did the job for me. My stuttering is gone. Thank you so much for that advice and other thread.
 
I might have. Not sure. Too distracted with other things. AXP1800, 768 MB PC2100 DDR, GeForce 6800 NU, Santa Cruz

BTW Otis, You make some great cookies.
 
Ditto here. It's not that the game goes slow, but the sound stutters :\... So I've been forced to go with medium detail on models and textures :\.
 
Same on my rig, every few mins I'll get a slow down and a sound will stutter for about 3 secs then its fine.

Abit NF7-S v2
SoundStorm
1GB PC3200
BFG 6800nu unlocked(16x1/6) stock clocks
 
Originally posted by: winterforge
I did the

-heapsize 512000 +cl_smooth 0

trick in the launch properties for HL2 and it did the job for me. My stuttering is gone. Thank you so much for that advice and other thread.
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Ok I take that back, I'm still getting the stuttering. I thought it helped at first, but nope.
 
Okay, I'm only getting the stuttering when it autosaves. How do I know? Well every time it happens I hit escape go to Load Game and there is the latest autosave with a thumbnail pic. The pic and autosave spot is always right where the stuttering is. We need someway to disable autosaving.
 
Originally posted by: winterforge
Okay, I'm only getting the stuttering when it autosaves. How do I know? Well every time it happens I hit escape go to Load Game and there is the latest autosave with a thumbnail pic. The pic and autosave spot is always right where the stuttering is. We need someway to disable autosaving.
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Yep, my PC crashes when I autosave sometimes.
 
i'm getting sound stuttering and fps jerks occasionally.

pretty sure it's sound related though, it only happens when a sound is played - usually a 'new' sound played that session.
 
Same deal here... Video pauses for 5-15 seconds and sound stutters during the pause then okay.

Rig in my sig plus Audigy 2 ZS
 
After extensive further testing, it is DEFINITELY the autosaving that is making me stutter. I have done everything possible in-between the autosaves to try and get it to stutter and it won't. Every time it stutters I check and sure enough there is a new autosave. I will worship whoever figures out how to disable autosaving. It may not be the cause of everyone's stuttering, but it's the ONLY thing keeping this game from 100% for me.
 
Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer
stuter effects here too

A64 3200 asus k8n e deluxe, 6800gt AUDIGY 2


game is sweet..i can play 12x10 4xaa 8xaf everything maxed
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Same set up as you and getting the jery problem. Anyone else notice that the gun sounds sometimes crackle?
 
Originally posted by: winterforge
After extensive further testing, it is DEFINITELY the autosaving that is making me stutter. I have done everything possible in-between the autosaves to try and get it to stutter and it won't. Every time it stutters I check and sure enough there is a new autosave. I will worship whoever figures out how to disable autosaving. It may not be the cause of everyone's stuttering, but it's the ONLY thing keeping this game from 100% for me.
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Yep - it would be great to disable the auto-saves. We can always F-5 (quicksave) when we want to. To further prove it always happens during a save, if you do a F-6 (thanks Zeppelin2282) or manual save you'll get the same pause.

As widespread as this problem appears to be I'm guessing Valve fixes this quite soon. That said, as a Steam downloader, do I have to update or does Steam do it on it's own?

 
Originally posted by: Zeppelin2282
F 5 for me does screenshots....
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Okay, I could swear when I F-5'ed I got a "Game Saved" message. Did you customize your F keys? I'll go back in and make sure. BRB...

Heh, you're 100% correct... It's F-6 for auto-save. And get this - on a fresh restart I didn't get a pause. Memory leak?????
 
I'm having the stuttering problems also, gonna try a HD defrag and the suggested (-heapsize 512000 +cl_smooth 0 ). Also, my refresh seems to be locked at 60 Hz. I have the refresh force enabled in the catalyst settings, but it isnt working. Is there a console command or a setting in the menu that I missed for setting the refresh rate?


Edit: After defraging and adding "-heapsize 512000 +cl_smooth 0 " my refresh is now at 85Hz (weird) and the stuttering seems to happen less frequently now, gonna play a bit and see how it is.

Edit 2: Setting my speakers to 4 in the half life audio menu fixed the majority of my stuttering.
 
Originally posted by: Robor...do I have to update or does Steam do it on it's own?
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Answering my own question... Steam default is to update on it's own. I found this when right-clicking HL2 and selecting properties.
 
Originally posted by: Robor
Originally posted by: Zeppelin2282
F 5 for me does screenshots....
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Okay, I could swear when I F-5'ed I got a "Game Saved" message. Did you customize your F keys? I'll go back in and make sure. BRB...

Heh, you're 100% correct... It's F-6 for auto-save. And get this - on a fresh restart I didn't get a pause. Memory leak?????
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Hmm Ill try restarting too, but I am afraid I wont be able to log back onto steam again if I do 🙁
 
just to add my stuttering problem.

This really sucks because I assume that stuttering was fixed with my card after modded bios because I have no stuttering in CS:S and Far Cry.

It never ends.

I seems to me that most people here have audigy 2 cards. May be it's audigy 2 driver problem.

creative needs to update their drivers more often. Those bastards are so lazy.
 
i had sound stuttering problems and the only thing that improved it was setting my texture detail to medium instead of high
 
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