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Sim City 4/Rome: Total War FPS Spikes

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I am having this problem with both Rome: Total War and Simcity 4.

The problem I am having is that the frames per second in the game spike every 1/2 second so the traffic in Simcity 4 or the units in Rome jumps forward and the scrolling goes absolutely nuts. The thing I noticed is that when I take a video of it with FRAPS, since the speed is capped at 30fps this doesn't happen. I get spikes up to 90fps which is usually great (in most games) but not here. Whenever the fps spikes, the units / game time jumps ahead.

I took a video of it with my digicam:

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=5361157914833039330

Can anyone tell me what the heck is happening????
 
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If this is a game problem post it under Games...or you can't differentiate software and hardware...?
 

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it isn't a game problem i think, i have both and none of them happen that, check if v-sinc is enabled, it has caused me problems n the past
 

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My v-sync is enabled and fixed at 75hz.
 

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Dude, next time make a better thread title.

read the thread title guidelines
 
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I changed the title a little bit, if it's ok w/ you Thermo. You can change it back if you want, if you don't feel it's right.
 
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Fine with me ;) .
 

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I disabled V-Sync but it didn't help. I downloaded the NGO Drivers and that didn't help either.
 
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