I'm having video issues with ATi

[SpeedZealot369]

Hey guys, I have a x1900xt and recently everything seems to be stuttering for a split second every 3 seconds or so. I tried installing the new 6.7 catalyst and that was a nightmare (desktop would start at 640x480 and it wouldn't let me change it) and CCC never works for me properly (it just doesn't want to open)


I don't care about CCC, I just want to run games and video's without any stuttering. So far I checked prey and heroes 5 and they're both stuttering. I also checked some video's and they don't stutter as bad, but they shouldn't be stuttering at all.

I'm new to ATi cards (I never owned one before) so if maybe I'm missing something obvious. I'm just really frusterated right now, I've spent almost 2 hours on this nonsense and I got nowhere so far.

Thanks for any help.

Edit

Note that in prey, when it stutters sometimes the sound also stutters with it.




-SZ

 

[akshayt]

we are more or less in the same boat, i have amd 64 3200 + cat 6.6

i get a lot stuttering in most wanted demo and my prob is not exactly stuttering but something which is neither stuttering nor non-stuttering, i can't even explain it,despite decent fps.

 

[SpeedZealot369]

Originally posted by: akshayt
we are more or less in the same boat, i have amd 64 3200 + cat 6.6

i get a lot stuttering in most wanted demo and my prob is not exactly stuttering but something which is neither stuttering nor non-stuttering, i can't even explain it,despite decent fps.

C'mon, I need some real help here.

 

[xtknight]

First: does it happen with older drivers? I wouldn't think it would be the GPU itself unless it was truly defective.

The Windows XP Performance Monitor (perfmon.msc) is always a good debugging tool for these things. Learn to use it and you won't regret it. Add a couple of pertinent counters like VM, CPU usage, HD access and see if anything is hitting the top off and on.

 

[Stumps]

Originally posted by: akshayt
we are more or less in the same boat, i have amd 64 3200 + cat 6.6

i get a lot stuttering in most wanted demo and my prob is not exactly stuttering but something which is neither stuttering nor non-stuttering, i can't even explain it,despite decent fps.

most people seem to have this problem, I have a 6800GT and it stutters every 5 seconds or so(just a quick jerk of the screen)at the lowly res of 1024x768 with medium quality.
It seems to be an issue with Most Wanted...but knowing EA, it'll never get fixed.

 

[SpeedZealot369]

Originally posted by: xtknight
First: does it happen with older drivers? I wouldn't think it would be the GPU itself unless it was truly defective.

The Windows XP Performance Monitor (perfmon.msc) is always a good debugging tool for these things. Learn to use it and you won't regret it. Add a couple of pertinent counters like VM, CPU usage, HD access and see if anything is hitting the top off and on.

How do I open that?


Like even in the prey load menu, you can hear the sound stuttering. WTF?

 

[sandorski]

Make sure your previous video card drivers are completely uninstalled first.

 

[SpeedZealot369]

Could spyware have caused this? I have reason to believe I might have some new spyware on my pc. Any way that's causing this crap?

 

[lavaheadache]

I too had the stuttering issue in most wanted. For me the problem ended up being hard drive caching, I had very good fps but would get a persistent stutter. I finally ended up changing my Maxtor hard drive over to a western digital and all was immediately better. Hope this helps. For anyone who thinks that it was a format and fresh install that fixed it, wrong, all I did was ghost everything over to the new drive.

 

[Stumps]

Originally posted by: lavaheadache
I too had the stuttering issue in most wanted. For me the problem ended up being hard drive caching, I had very good fps but would get a persistent stutter. I finally ended up changing my Maxtor hard drive over to a western digital and all was immediately better. Hope this helps. For anyone who thinks that it was a format and fresh install that fixed it, wrong, all I did was ghost everything over to the new drive.

I did the opposite, I went from a a pair of WD1200JB's in Raid 0 to 2x Maxtor Maxline 3 250gb Sata2, it did fix a bit of the problem...but there is still some stuttering.