Vista stuttering *FIXED*

[SparkyJJO]

background: New hardware, mobo is defective, so RMA'ing it. Put my old hardware back in and decided it would be a good time to try out vista since I'm running on a temporary setup anyway. So I install vista ultimate x64 with no key so its in trial mode for 30 days (nice that they let you do that).

Anyway I have a bad stuttering issue. Windows will stutter every so often, which makes sound, music, games, everything stutter. The mouse pointer will stutter too, and it is really annoying. At first I thought it was my audigy 2 ZS not playing nice (heard of issues with the audigy and vista) but I'm on onboard now and while much of the overly excessive audio issues are gone the system still stumbles around.

My hardware:
Opteron 165 @ 2.8GHz
2GB RAM
Asus A8R32-MVP motherboard
X1950XT with catalyst 8.3
onboard sound
Maxtor 250GB SATA "primary" (my usual seagate primary is disconnected as it has my windows XP install for my new hardware).

So far I like vista, EXCEPT for the stuttering (obviously). Any ideas how to fix this? I was considering upgrading to vista but if it is going to do this then I want none of it.

Funny thing is a long time ago I ran Vista beta 2 x64 on my PC when I had the same motherboard, same ram, similar gfx card (X1900XT) single core CPU, different HD. It ran better than this. That was on a beta OS with pretty bad driver support. ATI had a beta driver out but I had to patchwork drivers together to get any sound at all (same onboard audio). It never stuttered like this, go figure 😕

Any input?

 

[VirtualLarry]

HD errors can cause that sort of "stuttering" - where the mouse freezes for a moment.

 

[Mem]

Originally posted by: SparkyJJO
background: New hardware, mobo is defective, so RMA'ing it. Put my old hardware back in and decided it would be a good time to try out vista since I'm running on a temporary setup anyway. So I install vista ultimate x64 with no key so its in trial mode for 30 days (nice that they let you do that).

Anyway I have a bad stuttering issue. Windows will stutter every so often, which makes sound, music, games, everything stutter. The mouse pointer will stutter too, and it is really annoying. At first I thought it was my audigy 2 ZS not playing nice (heard of issues with the audigy and vista) but I'm on onboard now and while much of the overly excessive audio issues are gone the system still stumbles around.

My hardware:
Opteron 165 @ 2.8GHz
2GB RAM
Asus A8R32-MVP motherboard
X1950XT with catalyst 8.3
onboard sound
Maxtor 250GB SATA "primary" (my usual seagate primary is disconnected as it has my windows XP install for my new hardware).

So far I like vista, EXCEPT for the stuttering (obviously). Any ideas how to fix this? I was considering upgrading to vista but if it is going to do this then I want none of it.

Funny thing is a long time ago I ran Vista beta 2 x64 on my PC when I had the same motherboard, same ram, similar gfx card (X1900XT) single core CPU, different HD. It ran better than this. That was on a beta OS with pretty bad driver support. ATI had a beta driver out but I had to patchwork drivers together to get any sound at all (same onboard audio). It never stuttered like this, go figure 😕

Any input?

Make sure you have installed latest drivers for everything including motherboard chipset drivers,also go back to default speeds ie ...no overclocking,does the stutter go away?

 

[SparkyJJO]

I fixed the problem. Either had a bad driver install, the netgear wireless NIC didn't agree, or windows just loaded funny because I reinstalled and everything is smooth as butter. I'm actually back to my Audigy 2 ZS again too thanks to a link from a member of XS forums to some unofficial drivers. Everything is working great now. I'm considering purchasing vista through the university discount now, I'm going to test all my software before I do that though. If I go vista I'm going 64 bit, I'm tired of 32 bit on a 64 bit CPU 😛