Have you checked Windows Task Manager to see where your CPU cycles are
being used most?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey Jim & Greg, good to hear from you two. How would I check for the AGPGart issue?
Greg, I checked and Cool-and-Quiet was disabled, but I:
Disabled CPU Thermal Throttling (what does that do? - was at 50%)
Upgraded the BIOS
Removed the onboard sound and added my Audigy
After those 3, stutters seem to at least have been reduced (for now), but I'm
afraid this may be something that builds up over time after my computer's been
running for awhile. Need to do more testing...
Another major problem that may be related is when accessing my optical drives
sometimes my system hangs / slows for a short while. A good example is when I
start burning a DVD with DVDShrink. When my burner first gets started, I could
be typing this email (as I was actually), and typed a few words that didn't
show up until a minute later... For the rest of the burn it did okay though...
Thoughts? Thanks,
--Kyle Yamnitz
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From: Jim Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Going from AGP to PCI-E right? Could the agpgart thing be hanging around
causing this? Wild guess here. Good to here from you Kyle. :)
At 2/28/2006 10:50 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey guys,
Nice to see the list is still running - I've been away for a *long*
time :( I applied for voluntary separation plan at my work yesterday
though, so maybe I'll get back into this a little (going back to running
my business full time instead of 2 careers)...
Anyway, I'm having an odd problem that I'm hoping someone may have
some experience with. I upgraded my Win XP PC w/o reinstalling the OS
(went from nForce 2 Ultra to nForce 4 Ultra board) - I don't really have
a choice. Everything works fine, except for this nagging issue. Games
play fine and frame rate is high, but I get stutters in games (pause for
a split second then jerk forward). Oddly enough, the same thing happens
when playing DVDs in PowerDVD and videos in Windows Media
Player! :( Another odd issue is that my desktop icons get refreshed
occasionally and are slow to redraw... I have the latest mobo drivers,
video card drivers, DirectX (reports no problems), etc. Here's my config:
DFI LanParty UT NF4 Ultra-D
Athlon 64 Venice 3500+
EVGA 7800 GT
2 GB Geil PC3200 2-3-2-5
was using onboard sound - about to try my old Audigy
2 older IDE drives, 1 SATA, 2 IDE optical drives
BTW, I did use DriverCleaner Pro to clean the cabs, clean for
NVIDIA motherboard / video, and clean Creative... I've tried different
versions of the video drivers as well. TTYL,
--Kyle Yamnitz
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http://www.LessonPlansPage.com
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