Skippy Gameplay w/7800GT PCIe

[PwrGetter00]

Hey guys, wondering if you guys can help me locate the problem with my system or card.

Problems: During any intensive/high 3D detailed gameplay, the game will act very skippy. It's not my framerate going down either, because I have fraps on while I play, and it's always over 100FPS (during FEAR or CS:S).

So then I try to play a different game instead of FPS's, so I load Black and White 2, same thing happens, I have awesome framerate (over 100 FPS) but the game is really skippy.

Anyone know what could be causing this?

What I've done thus far:
-Changed drivers
-Tried different refresh rates in dxdiag (overide) and refresh rate in monitor settings
-Updated chipset drivers
-Tried 2 different motherboards

*But problem persists!

Thanks in advance for the help guys.

 

[moonboy403]

how many gig of ram do you have?

texture setting might be a problem

1 gig of ram isn't enough for fear
setting the texture to medium would solve the skipping problem in fear

 

[the cobbler]

sounds like you need 2GB ram to me as well

 

[PwrGetter00]

I have 2gb of ram, i'll upload a video of when I'm playing CS:S in a bit.

BTW: What should my PCIe clock be set at? In my bios, it starts at 100 and goes 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, etc....

 

[Munky]

Originally posted by: PwrGetter00
I have 2gb of ram, i'll upload a video of when I'm playing CS:S in a bit.

BTW: What should my PCIe clock be set at? In my bios, it starts at 100 and goes 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, etc....

The standard speed of pci-e is 100 mhz

 

[PwrGetter00]

Originally posted by: munky

Originally posted by: PwrGetter00
I have 2gb of ram, i'll upload a video of when I'm playing CS:S in a bit.

BTW: What should my PCIe clock be set at? In my bios, it starts at 100 and goes 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, etc....

The standard speed of pci-e is 100 mhz

Any benefit of increasing it?

 

[Munky]

Originally posted by: PwrGetter00

Originally posted by: munky

Originally posted by: PwrGetter00
I have 2gb of ram, i'll upload a video of when I'm playing CS:S in a bit.

BTW: What should my PCIe clock be set at? In my bios, it starts at 100 and goes 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, etc....

The standard speed of pci-e is 100 mhz

Any benefit of increasing it?

No, in fact it might cause instability if you increase it, just like increasing the agp or pci frequency may cause instability.

 

[DaveBC]

get 2 gigs

 

[addinator]

do you have many other programs running while playing? and what are your full system specs?

 

[PwrGetter00]

AMD Athlon X2 4400+ @ 2.31
BFG 7800 GT @ 550 / 1.2g
Corsair XMS PC3200 2gb (1gb x 2) DDR400
ABIT AN8 NF4 SLi mobo (running with shadow card)
1x 10k RPM WD 80gb HD
2x 7200 RPM Seagate 300gb HD's

 

[rise]

x2?

do you have the msft patch?

about 160 posts (page 8 for me) in here. theres some other threads on it as well, thats one i found.

 

[Woofmeister]

Could we please get this thread stickied?

It's always the same, somebody complains about their games stuttering/skipping despite high FPS and eventually we find out they are running dual core without the patch.