video stutter w/Geforce 3 Ti500

[Kahkhing]

I can't figure this out. I am running an Athlon 1.4 ghz t-bird w/512 MB of SDRAM, Win 98 SE, dx8.1, SB live and a Geforce 3 Ti500 running 23.11 of the detonator drivers. I'm running lean, nothing but explorer and systray, 97% resources free.

Periodically I experience a one second video "freeze" even with engines that are not coming close to challenging the geforce (Drakan for example). This stuttering is very annoying. Can anyone give me ideas?

thanks

 

[bront]

Maybe your computer needs some training to avoid it's video impedement?

Seriously, usually something like that tends to lead towards there being a huge CPU usage hit suddently. Could be a few things. Make sure you have nothing automated running in the background.

I do not like it Tom you see,
I do not like green PCB.

 

[Kahkhing]

Thanks for the ideas. I think I fixed it by cranking up the AGP aperture to its max value.

 

[Guest]

LOL I was just going to recommend you pushing the AGP aperature to 128 megs.

Ron