Everygame I play SKIPPS AND STUTTERS!! HELP...?

[Mitsukai Sanran]

I have a P3 933, GeForce 2 Ultra, 384mb RAM.

I get alot stuttering which makes games almost un-playable!

I've defragged my HDD, turned off everything running in the background (pretty much) with Windows System Configuration Utility. And it seemed to have helped a little... but it still is horrible!

Graphics turned all the way up or all the way down - Doesn't make any difference! ACK!

HELP! Any ideas??

-Mitsukai

[KMBALO]

Could it be a vibration from a high speed CDRom drive?
Maybe you need a better video card...like minimun 16 Mbytes dedicated to video. It seems so many games now a days won't even play properly unless you have a higher quality video card and a minimun of 233 MHz processor with 128 minimun of RAM.
A cheap sound card has caused me problems in the past also.

[SpookyEddy]

Just an idea but have you got DMA on for both hard-disk & CD-Rom drive? This can make a massive difference to speed & smoothness of games.

Also, what version of windows?

What video card drivers?

KMBALO: I hope you are joking :)

Regards

Eddy

[KMBALO]

What do you mean? Hope you are joking? I have had very real problems with games due to all mentioned reasons, computers are like people, very different with very different problems- so any number of software & hardware problems could cause games to play lousy! I am more of a hard-ware person, so I tend to look there first!

[crazycrazy]

Depending on how much of a tech you are, pull your video card and run a white eraser across the contacts. wipe it clean then reseat the card. you might have had heat creep on the card.
I'm using a compaq 151fs moniter with GeForce2 MX video card and when my comp gets hot sometimes the card creeps just enough to play havoc with me. The next step was already said " swap the monitor" that will tell you where to go next!

[TechDude]

Update video drivers. Update Dirext X.

[Mitsukai Sanran]

lol, ok some interesting idea's here....

I have the Detenator 3's for my Geforce 2 Ultra, Windows ME, DirectX 8 (or 8.5, i dunno),
I don't want to get the Detenator 4's because of the (from what i've heard) slow down it causes. Because it's more geared towards the GeForce 3. (??)

It's not vibration from my CD-ROM because the CD is not running all the time.
The skipping happens when there is alot (or semi alot) of action / poly's on the screen. Please note that this has NEVER happend before - it seemed to be a "recent" steadly increasing issue.

I'm not sure if I have DMA for my HDD and CD-ROM.

... I dunno about running an eraser across my Vid Card.

-Mitsukai

[SpookyEddy]

No offense intended KMBALO, I just think that a GeForce2 ultra should be a good enough video card ;).

DMA is Direct Memory Access, & it allows hard-drives / CDRom to be accessed with greatly reduced CPU usage.

To configure DMA in WinME go to the device manager (right click on "My Computer") and select the appropriate drive/CDRom. You should now see a DMA checkbox under the properties tab.

Regards

Eddy

[Dudster]

You might find something useful here http://www.geforcefaq.com/faq.cgi#hw:gef:troub:stutter

The first thing I'd check is that nothing is sharing your GeForce's IRQ apart from 'IRQ Holder for PCI Steering'.

[Mitsukai Sanran]

Thank you Dudster & everybody!! (mainly Dudster, hehe)

I enabled DMA for my CDROM but the effects haven't taken yet - I need to restart my pc.

I checked out the link Dudster gave me and changed a couple things according to what the FAQ sayz and NO MORE SKIPPING!!! I'm soo happy! :D

I should have gone to that FAQ in the first place, (i've been to it before, just forgot about it) but it's away's my first reaction to ask peeps in forums, I dunno why. lol

Thanks again!

-Mitsukai