Help me with the **** Stuttering!! please!!

[Alatriste]

Hello guys, something is not working well in my PC. I,ve got this pc since 6-8 months ago, I tought it was a problem with my graphic card, or just a common problem with this generation of GPU with the unified shaders. BUt this is unaceptable.

- The screen, when is moving arround, it dont go smooth, The entire scenary jumps again and again, like Plop ... plop.... plop, every half second or so. FRAPS can still showing 60FPS but the screen jumps all the time. This looks like is only happening when the screen is moving arround, not when the camera stops, the animations in the game looks fluid. It hapens with all settings in all configurations, in all resolutions, in some configurations "seems" going better but it still there. VSync On and of triple buffer on and off.


PC Settings

*C2D E4400 @2,6 (266x10) 1.2v - (Stock and 1.3v same problem)
*Asus P5K p35 (Upgraded Bios today, the problem still here)
*2GB Ram Geil DDR2 800 2.1v (1,8-2.2v and 600/850@ same problem)
*Geforece 8600GT 540/700 OC -> 700/950
*PSU Corsair Vx450 ( i had another psu and same problem)
*Sound card Terratec 5.1 Fun.

Temps are ok, i got Artic cooling 7 pro for CPU, and Zalman VF900 for GPU.
*Windows XP 32bits SP3. Installed, formated HD, a lot of times.


I spended money to buy it working, not for spend time and pacience to see what the hell is, because some people dont do his work. Microsoft, Nvidia... frustrating.

 

[Mathos]

You using a widescreen LCD for your display? If possible, you may need to disable LCD overdrive in your drivers control panel. Otherwise the system is fairly sound, depending on what res you're running at the 8600gt may be holding you back.

 

[Alatriste]

Yes, widescreen 20" 1650x1080. LCD overdrive?? never heard that before.
The gpu is not holding back because this hapen with 60fps+. Even when you have 10 fps if they are stable, they only jump between eachother, not every 0.5 secs.

 

[trackman2010]

This has happened to me with my 8800GT in some games.

I solved by setting the "Maximum pre-rendered frames" in the Nvidia control panel to 1 instead of the default 3, and turning on triple buffering (even though the games this happened in were not OpenGL).

Try it and see if it solves your problem.

 

[modtech]

VF900 for a 8600GT? You actually bought DDR2 800 despite the negligible performance increase rather than a better GPU (which would make a huge difference)?

 

[jitpublisher]

After trying the suggestions others have posted, my 2 cents is that if you want to game, you really need a better GPU. An 8600GT is a very low end gaming card.....any gaming enthusiast would not even consider it an option.
An 8800GT is what I would call a minimum GPU for decent gaming performance these days.

 

[Alatriste]

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[Alatriste]

When i bought the 8600GT, my options were: Ati x1950pro for 120€, 8800GTS 320MB for 270€, and 8600GT, 2600xt, 7900GS all for 99€.

7900gs no shaders, 2600xt no rops no texture units for low end useless, x1950pro more expensive older arquitecture, more power compsuption, and i tought that it would re-sell worse. 8800GTs no coments. So i think i did the best choice. Not to mention the great OC that puts 8600gt together with 8600gts.

I tryed now Call of duty 4, and it runs smooth in some places when moving the screen arround (with dual gpu option enabled or something like that) but when you look trought some kind of object, like barrels stuttering hapen. This is despite the frame rates, so this is not because my gpu is not powerfull enought.

Warcaft 3, old game when i move the screen it stutters, all time, anywhere, doesnt matter how long ive been looking into some place. (so no HD problem, or memory etc.). I ll try with some game without Transform and lighting, to see what hapen.
Trackmania forever, when im at grass, far away of the circuit, and im doing driftings in circles, the screen jumps rithmically even if fraps is displaying always more than 60 fps.

 

[dokk2]

Yes, widescreen 20" 1650x1080. LCD overdrive?? never heard that before.
The gpu is not holding back because this hapen with 60fps+. Even when you have 10 fps if they are stable, they only jump between eachother, not every 0.5 secs.

lower your resolution an 8600 cannot supply those rez's you need an 8800 or better for 20" and up,8600 is the pci-e version of the 7600 agp <> ,,if you can return that sucker and get the 8800,you'll be glad you did...

 

[DarthPiggie]

too late i think, just wait till nahalem then upgrade everything.

 

[slashzapper]

Dude i think i know ure problem ..Have you got the latest drivers..If you have overclocked your CPU .....or the GPU


I had this problem ..it had turned out to be corupt video driver files...try OMEGA Drivers . Let me know if any of these solve your problem.

 

[Alatriste]

I installed windows many times, and installed a few diferent drivers. Forceware 169.21

 

[Alatriste]

http://www.mediafire.com/?m0ezjpodxdz

Uploaded videos of call of duty 4 and warcraft 3. Both had +60fps all the time, and the screen still jump and freeze. Call of Duty have the dual card option enabled.

 

[stemnin]

Isn't that a crazy oc for a 8600? Tried default clocks? Why do you have dual gpu enabled in cod4, are you running sli?

 

[Alatriste]

Stemnin, the overclock is ok, is stable. It can run at 740/1020 3Dmark but it crash sometimes since i put VF900 cooler. Maybe like this cooler is not working on memory modules, they are heating up??.

And yes at default clocks it got the same problem, but oced gain 30/35% performance D. But it can run 60 fps and still not enjoying the game (, help pls!! anyone is in the same situation than me???

Dual gpu option, it fix the stuttering in this game, dont ask me how it works, because i dont know. (in my case it just fix a little, but still)

 

[Alatriste]

help PLEASEEEEEEE

 

[Alatriste]

I tried everything, please need advice of someone who have the same problem.

 

[Scotteq]

When your system slows, is your Hard Drive churning??

 

[Alatriste]

This is not HD problem. The video show it. Arround the same object in the same screen, with no loading in HD, and no loading memory nothing.

 

[Alatriste]

I did some research, and i found something about voltage regulators being too hot on motherboard, or graphic card. Causing system inestabilities.

How can i measure this?? P5k is not supposed to work without cooling, can i RMA it??

 

[doomsdaydave11]

When i bought the 8600GT, my options were: Ati x1950pro for 120€, 8800GTS 320MB for 270€, and 8600GT, 2600xt, 7900GS all for 99€.

7900gs no shaders, 2600xt no rops no texture units for low end useless, x1950pro more expensive older arquitecture, more power compsuption, and i tought that it would re-sell worse. 8800GTs no coments. So i think i did the best choice. Not to mention the great OC that puts 8600gt together with 8600gts.

I tryed now Call of duty 4, and it runs smooth in some places when moving the screen arround (with dual gpu option enabled or something like that) but when you look trought some kind of object, like barrels stuttering hapen. This is despite the frame rates, so this is not because my gpu is not powerfull enought.

Warcaft 3, old game when i move the screen it stutters, all time, anywhere, doesnt matter how long ive been looking into some place. (so no HD problem, or memory etc.). I ll try with some game without Transform and lighting, to see what hapen.
Trackmania forever, when im at grass, far away of the circuit, and im doing driftings in circles, the screen jumps rithmically even if fraps is displaying always more than 60 fps.

The 7900GS trashes the 8600GT DDR2 and beats the GDDR3 version most of the time in case you didn't know.

Try bringing everything back to stock. No overclocks. It's worth a shot.
EDIT: ^Nevermind.

Reinstall drivers?

 

[Alatriste]

7900GS is less than half fps of 8600GT, dont talk about ocing. Its shader power is ridiculus.

I reinstalled windows and formated HD, and tryed some drivers beta and non beta, ofcourse they were nearly newest to the date.

Im looking to voltage regulators, can this be the problem??

 

[cjl]

You realize that the 7900GS has no universal shaders because it has vertex and pixel shaders (separate), right?

The 7900GS will outperform the 8600GT in most games, it is simply a fact (see here).

 

[Alatriste]

Do something, buy 7900GS play Call of duty 4, Unreal tournament 3, Gears of War, Team fortress 2, Trackmania forever, after buy 8600GT and see wich card show more fps.

If not you cant talk. 7900GS is a very bad arquitecture now (does not have today games in mind)
And how the hell you show me a comparative where 7600GT outperforms 8600GT, when this card is 50/75% faster.

 

[cjl]

We aren't comparing the 7600 GT with the 8600GT. We're comparing the 8600GT with the 7900GS.

Here's a good example from that article:

It's fairly clear which one is faster here...

And in Far Cry, even more obvious results: