Like many people out there, I've been having stuttering issues with my game play using my Neo2 MB (NF3U Chipset) and my 6800 GT. Playing BF2 caused this to happen much more frequently that any other game I play. Sometimes it was maybe 1-2 times a map (15-20 minutes), and others it would happen about every 30-90 seconds.
I tried alot of different things:
Turn off AGP fast writes
Adjust the latency of your PCI bus with RivaTuner
Change your AGP aperture size to "something else"
Remove the nForce GART driver
Move back to the 6x.xx drivers, however this of course makes some newer games not work right.
Several different driver sets.
Some of this helped, but nothing eliminated it.
I started reading where some people were taking their BFG OC cards back to original speeds with success. Some reported this helped, while others said it eliminated the problem.
I also read about peopl running programs that read the card temp, and all the stutters coincided with small spikes in card temp reading, even though the temps were perfectly fine.
It became apparent that there is some software issues with the 7x.xx drivers and this comboe of chipset/VC. It seemed like the software was seeing that the card was having a problem (running too fast or too hot), and the stutter/pause was it's way of trying to stablize it. Not really sure, but something is jacked up here.
Anyways I figured maybe I can "fool" the software into thingking the card is always fine by underclocking it.
So I underclocked my card to 336, (from 350) and leaving the RAM at 1000.
I have played BF2 the last two nights on a few different servers, all full, and did not have one of these stutters. This is not the normal pauses/jumps that you get when first starting a new map, but a completely different issue. But I now no longer have to worry about them.
I may try the new drivers to see if they fix this issue wthout underclocking the card, but for right now I'm keeping thing the way they are.
I tried alot of different things:
Turn off AGP fast writes
Adjust the latency of your PCI bus with RivaTuner
Change your AGP aperture size to "something else"
Remove the nForce GART driver
Move back to the 6x.xx drivers, however this of course makes some newer games not work right.
Several different driver sets.
Some of this helped, but nothing eliminated it.
I started reading where some people were taking their BFG OC cards back to original speeds with success. Some reported this helped, while others said it eliminated the problem.
I also read about peopl running programs that read the card temp, and all the stutters coincided with small spikes in card temp reading, even though the temps were perfectly fine.
It became apparent that there is some software issues with the 7x.xx drivers and this comboe of chipset/VC. It seemed like the software was seeing that the card was having a problem (running too fast or too hot), and the stutter/pause was it's way of trying to stablize it. Not really sure, but something is jacked up here.
Anyways I figured maybe I can "fool" the software into thingking the card is always fine by underclocking it.
So I underclocked my card to 336, (from 350) and leaving the RAM at 1000.
I have played BF2 the last two nights on a few different servers, all full, and did not have one of these stutters. This is not the normal pauses/jumps that you get when first starting a new map, but a completely different issue. But I now no longer have to worry about them.
I may try the new drivers to see if they fix this issue wthout underclocking the card, but for right now I'm keeping thing the way they are.
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