My 6800GT Stutters In Every Game

[SniperKil]

my system specs

DFI Lanparty UT NF3 250Gb
Athlon 64 3000+
1GB Corsair ValueSelect
PNY Geforce 6800GT

heres the deal, no matter what game i play.. every 5-10 seconds or when i enter a new area.. i get a nice SKIP.. its only like a half second.. but its driving me nuts, even happens in the nvidia flagship Doom3

heres what ive tried..

More Ram (put in an extra 512mb, dident help)
Ran a power connector from my friends beastly powersupply to my geforce (dident help)
Defragged all my harddrives (dident help)
Scanned for spyware (none found)
Reinstalled windows (dident help)
Various RivaTuner Settings which people said helped (dident help)
PCI Latency Settings (dident help)
AGP Fastwrites On/OFF (dident help)
Disable PageFile (dident Help)

now i played halflife 2 and watched my PC.. and i noticed ever stutter.. my harddrive light was on.. that dosent make sense.. i have 1GB ram, ive tried to disable my pagefile too.. dident help... i have a Western Digital 7200RPM 8mb cache IDE drive as my main drive.. running in UDMA5... i have tried with and without the nvidia ide drivers.. no help

i need some help here.. im pulling my hair out over this

 

[Jayczar]

you may want to fix or atleast mention this problem in your fs/ft thread :roll:

FT: 6800GT AGP for X800

 

[SniperKil]

well ive tried the card in a friends pc and it played perfect.. so its obviously not the card and something with my setup.. i dont understand what tho.. ive formatted many many times

 

[Jayczar]

oh...ok

 

[blckgrffn]

Sounds like the ram is clocked to high...also, run driver cleaner to make sure you aren't have a driver issue, also a clean install of windows might be in order!

Those last two things have solved every video issue I have ever had. Driver Cleaner is good if you have ever had an ATI card in there, and the clean windows install if you have been really using your current OS for the last year or so.

I hope that you get it worked out!

Nat

 

[SniperKil]

Originally posted by: blckgrffn
Sounds like the ram is clocked to high...also, run driver cleaner to make sure you aren't have a driver issue, also a clean install of windows might be in order!

Those last two things have solved every video issue I have ever had. Driver Cleaner is good if you have ever had an ATI card in there, and the clean windows install if you have been really using your current OS for the last year or so.

I hope that you get it worked out!

Nat

ram is clocked at stock 200mhz.. ive run memtest86 on it for 2 days straight with 0 errors.. and in the sandra benchmarks i get over 3000MB/s

ive formatted many times and installed drivers fresh after that.. with no help

 

[blckgrffn]

I meant the ram on the video card, sorry. My 6800 stuttered just like that when I had the ram clocked at 890, but it was skip free at 800. Anyway, good luck!

Nat

 

[SniperKil]

Originally posted by: blckgrffn
I meant the ram on the video card, sorry. My 6800 stuttered just like that when I had the ram clocked at 890, but it was skip free at 800. Anyway, good luck!

Nat

ram on the video card is stock @ 1ghz

 

[SniperKil]

let me mention that none of the tests in 3dmark01/03/05 skip or stutter

 

[blckgrffn]

Mine was just in HL2/CS, the more I think about it I had to back off the memory oc on my dads 5900XT because of skipping like that in UT2004.... according to Anandtech, HL2 is really hard on vid cards and really makes stuff that is clocked to high break, even more so than Doom 3. I think that you will find that little gem if you look in the HL2 GPU benchmarks...

 

[grimlykindo]

My X800 XL does exact same thing in EVERY game until I turn on VSYNC!!!

I don't know why it stops my lag and skip problem, but it does!!

As long as your refresh rate is set high Vsync isn't so bad

Set it in your Control panel or whatever to be ALWAYS ON

 

[SniperKil]

Originally posted by: grimlykindo
My X800 XL does exact same thing in EVERY game until I turn on VSYNC!!!

I don't know why it stops my lag and skip problem, but it does!!

As long as your refresh rate is set high Vsync isn't so bad

Set it in your Control panel or whatever to be ALWAYS ON

tried that.. dosent help

 

[JBT]

What is your PSU? and is the card daisy chained with any other components like your hard drive?
Also may want to try disabling side bannding addressing.

 

[SniperKil]

bump

 

[SniperKil]

Originally posted by: JBT
What is your PSU? and is the card daisy chained with any other components like your hard drive?
Also may want to try disabling side bannding addressing.

http://skgt4pics.home.comcast.net/Frag.JPG

shows my hdd fragmentation

and my psu is some 350W psu that i pulled out of a new case my friend bought at bestbuy.. it has 18A on the 12v rail.. but ive had no system stability problems.. no freezing.. nothing.. just this... and like i said before i pulled a molex connecter out of my friends pc and stretched it over to my 6800 and the problem still persisted.. he has a 580W psu with 35A on the 12v line

and no its on a dedicated line

 

[SniperKil]

sideband addressing off dident help

 

[Megatomic]

I'm almost tempted to offer my card in trade. BBA retail X800XL AGP8X. Lemme think on this a little.

 

[hans030390]

try a different psu.

 

[isekii]

Originally posted by: Megatomic
I'm almost tempted to offer my card in trade. BBA retail X800XL AGP8X. Lemme think on this a little.

Just Do it... Do it..

You can always RMA if there is a problem... pending that the card is under warranty.

 

[SniperKil]

http://skgt4pics.home.comcast.net/WTF.JPG

why is hl2 only using 173MB of ram? umm shouldent it be using much more then that? heh

i tried setting the -heapsize option and it still only uses 170mb of ram.. dosent seem right

 

[rise]

Originally posted by: Megatomic
I'm almost tempted to offer my card in trade. BBA retail X800XL AGP8X. Lemme think on this a little.

get back on the horse Mega

 

[Megatomic]

I'm an NV fan from a way back. I don't need much arm twisting to get me to install an NV product.

 

[SniperKil]

hehe someone wanna try to explain why hl2 is only using 173 mb ram? that is worrying to me

 

[Megatomic]

That has nothing to do with your card SniperKil. And I don't know how much RAM is used by HL2 when I play the game. I never alt-tab out to look at memory usage.

 

[SniperKil]

Originally posted by: Megatomic
That has nothing to do with your card SniperKil. And I don't know how much RAM is used by HL2 when I play the game. I never alt-tab out to look at memory usage.

yeah but it might have to do with why its constantly reading the harddrive? if its only loading 173MB of stuff into ram.. seems strange...

alt tab outta hl2 once and see what hl2.exe is using