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04-03-2003, 10:07 PM
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FPS games kind of choppy
A friend of mine had a computer built from the ground up a few months back and was having a minor problem with it. Whenever he plays a FPS game, it seems to pause every few seconds for just a split second. Constantly. Its really annoying.
He has the latest video card driver and his system is far from a slouch. I watched him fire up Grand Theft Auto III as well as Unreal Tournament. Apparently all his games do this. His specs are: K7 Triton 400 series motherboard FSB333 with AGP8x AMD Athelon xp2400+ cpu 1024 DDR NVidia GeForce 4 Ti 4800 128mb DirectX 8.1 Windows XP Would the problem be with a faulty vid card? Any Ideas? Trying to save him some bucks so he doesnt have to take it to the local computer shop for a check up. Appreciate all the help! |
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04-03-2003, 10:23 PM
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Red Sox Nation
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Any background programs running? Has he defragged lately? Done a virus scan?
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04-03-2003, 11:26 PM
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What anti virus is he running? Have him hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete and go to task manager to see what proccess are running, if there is a program that is taking up 100% thats your problem.
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04-03-2003, 11:46 PM
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The Procrastinator
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does this happen recently or always?
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04-04-2003, 04:17 AM
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snowboarder
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run ad aware aswell
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04-04-2003, 10:37 AM
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Mondsreitersmann
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Try disabling the onboard sound and play the games to see if the problem persists.
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04-04-2003, 10:56 AM
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This has happened since day one, as I understand.
Did the de-frag already and virus scan as well. Ill have him disable the onboard sound next and see how that goes. Thanks for the input so far! |
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04-04-2003, 10:58 AM
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Stop winking at me!!!
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Loaded the latest patches on the games?
Downloaded the latest drivers for the video card? |
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04-04-2003, 12:22 PM
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Iman74-
Did and did! It does it on ALL his games, apparently. |
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04-04-2003, 07:54 PM
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Shut down background programs and disabled the virus protection...still choppy. Downloaded latest drivers for vid card just to be sure....no go.
Ran ad-aware just for the heck of it as well. Still choppy! |
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04-04-2003, 07:56 PM
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Windows Task Manager shows the System Idle Process at 88%
and System at 13% Could this be a factor? |
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04-04-2003, 08:20 PM
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Mondsreitersmann
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Did you disable the sound?
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04-04-2003, 08:25 PM
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whats the AGP aperture size? what are the voltage settings?
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04-04-2003, 08:51 PM
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holy shi*....no imput on yuor question because i can't think of nuts!.....BUT LOOK AT IMAN74 SPECS!
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04-04-2003, 08:51 PM
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Ran Unreal Tournament in software rendering mode. Was still jerky with that setting. Would this rule out the video card???
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04-05-2003, 03:49 AM
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snowboarder
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I shouldnt think the system idle process is a problem, i think thats so that your computer doesnt stall when doing nothing
but my system process is at 0% What is your CPU usage at? |
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