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Game Stuttering!

I got hyper SLI
 
Basically this OS that I have now is a new install to begin with because I was trying to fix all this stuff. Also I had a major cluster fuck happen and my comp crashed and took all my HDD info with it so I had to reinstall lol.
 
Best I can say at this point then is to either a) switch out to 7x0i that supports official SLI or b) remove any overclock you have on the system and start from scratch there to see if still occurs.

Also when you re-installed, were you overclocked? Does make a difference.

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Only this game stutters? Anything else modern within the past year do it as well?
 
Oh shit I was overclocked..... I didn't think about that...... fuck looks like I'm going to have to do it again huh? Oh well, this is the curse of being a techy.
 
JrRacinFan said:
Best I can say at this point then is to either a) switch out to 7x0i that supports official SLI or b) remove any overclock you have on the system and start from scratch there to see if still occurs.

Also when you re-installed, were you overclocked? Does make a difference.

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Only this game stutters? Anything else modern within the past year do it as well?
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Yeah modern games do it too. My best example was the new NFS Hot Pursuit. I guess another example would be I guess WoW sense I'm a big WoW player or uhhhh Prototype. That game does it bad!
 
Sounds that way, even a little unstable can give a possibility to have a corrupted OS from the getgo.
 
On another note hold your replies until I reinstall Winblows 7 so I can at least tell you if it worked or not. Huh, you know I just realized I haven't ran a non overclocked install in windows sense I built this damn thing 2 years ago...... fml :(
 
TechReaper said:
Ok, I know that this is a pretty specific thread and or question and before you guys start asking if I have disabled my antiviruses and ran my AV and checked for viruses. I have!! Lol, I've also changed my page file from windows managing it to me managing it. I have all the recent drivers for my video cards and mobo. I've got the Game Booster and so there for I don't have any unnecessary programs running in the background. Last but not least I've checked my registry and I've made tweaks to it as advised from other forums.

Now the question is..... I have a Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0Ghz overclocked to 3.8Ghz, 6Gigs of SuperTalent 800mhz RAM, 2 GTS 250s in SLI, X-FI Extreme Gamer Sound Card, and a Killer Xeno Pro NIC card for internet. My PSU is a Antec 650 Watt. With all of this I get stuttering or skipping in frames or pauses or whatever the hell you want to call it. The point is that the game pauses for a split second as I'm either turning, running, or just going under a bridge (Need for Speed Hot Pursuit.... The new one.) I need a some help in solving this problem and I've just about tried everything. I'm really starting to think that with the current PSU that I have is not able to provide the power I need to either my CPU, GPU, or RAM. All I know is I can't overclock my ram manually to a higher Mhz speed any further then my FSB will allow or else it won't boot up period! Also I forgot to mention that my Mobo is a Asus P5Q-E Delux. Please help with any info pertaining to my problem, I would really appreciate it cause it's just about to cause me to pull my hair out. Thanks in advance and cheers mates XD.
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Had you not said 'Need for Speed Hot Pursuit', I would have asked whether you were using some crappy unresponsive wireless mouse with a low polling rate. That would cause stuttering.

Other than that, I know that dual GPU setups are notorious for microstutter...especially the earlier configurations which is what you have got.

The only other thing that has cuased me stuttering in the past was the paging file. If you have two physical or logical hard drives, then have a paging file running only on one of them (the C drive). Preferably your games would be isntalled not on the C drive.
 
My mate has the same problem with his E8400 and its not GPU related he tired a load of things to fix it but in the end he gave up and he just going to upgrade to a i5, what motherboard are you using im sure this is motherboard related.

He did post last week but didnt get much help
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=156569
 
MatTheCat said:
The only other thing that has cuased me stuttering in the past was the paging file. If you have two physical or logical hard drives, then have a paging file running only on one of them (the C drive). Preferably your games would be isntalled not on the C drive.
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Paging file can cause this but I have a feeling it's just all down related to the 16x+4x 1.1 PCIe laneage(is that a word? LOL) mainly the x4 link or the SLI bridge being used. For now Im leaning towards the overclock on the system.

Live OR Die said:
My mate has the same problem with his E8400 and its not GPU related he tired a load of things to fix it but in the end he gave up and he just going to upgrade to a i5, what motherboard are you using im sure this is motherboard related.
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Same reason why I asked about the P5Q Deluxe.
 
If its the same problem reinstalling windows wont help and in most cases the CPU will always out last the motherboard so i put my money on the board check over it and see, There mite be 1 or 2 puffed capacitors so some components wont be getting the right currents ive seen this a lot.
 
I've looked at my mobo and I do NOT have any puffed caps. Would be nice though to look in there and be like "Oh hey here's the problem, puffed caps." Yeah unfortunately it doesn't work that way. Oh well backing up everything right now and going to check if reinstalling helps without being overclocked. Wish me luck.
 
Awaiting results. Hopefully that works for you.
 
Ok, I have reinstalled Win7 x64 and I'm doing all the updates right now. I took out my sound card and nic card so I wouldn't have to deal with any extra drivers. Plus, I installed my chipset driver first thing when I logged in and then installed the video drivers and then the Virtual SLI 0.7. So far I have noticed a increase in performance only in accessing things in my harddrive. After I get done installing all the updates I'll install NFSHP and see how well it does. Wish me luck guys.
 
Holy shit I was just thinking. Sense I went through the trouble to install my Razer keyboard and mouse drivers I thought I would look at what settings I could manipulate on my mouse. I noticed I can change the polling rate and was like "Holy SHIT!!" I think this could be the problem in my stuttering cause the polling rate was set at 125hz and now I put it on 1000hz so the update for my mouse sending info to my monitor should now only be 1ms. Though I don't know if this would solve the problem in NFS......
 
Stuttering is mostly caused by operator error, ex: bad hardware choice , OEM, bad configuration, bad driver install

stop using programs such as game booster, do everything manually.


EDIT: Awfully bad thing that your mouse refresh got 125mhz, it's driver error and it should have been set to 500mhz default.

Reinstallation of windows is mostly a waste of time inexperienced users always take lightly, if you didn't have customizations in the first place you probably didn't lose a lot of work.

Most of issues if not all PC issues i did had , reinstallation is not needed. I used to do a reinstall when i didn't knew a fix, nowadays i know how to fix pretty much anything and if there's no fix , i research and find a fix my self , but i do not get any critical situations either since of the experience i already prevent it from happening before it does.

EDIT: A crash took out all HDD info ... how the heck did you do that ?

More RAM won't fix an issue like stuttering UNLESS you have researched and identified that you are low on memory. This is mostly not practically doable with pagefile enabled, you have to disable the pagefile and then see the COMMIT readings in task manager.

You bought another RAM, and you just "put it in there" there is no surprise that you have issues when you don't configure the RAM, i don't suppose you got identical sticks with same version and voltage specification even if it's the same brand and same MHZ , it might have different clocks - plus you never told any specs whatsoever.
 
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run the CPU at stock speed and the ram at its intended clock rate, or loosen the timings a lil.
 
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eidairaman1 said:
run the CPU at stock speed and the ram at its intended clock rate, or loosen the timings a lil.
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We have no idea what the heck was/is he doing so basically just start from scratch.

Post full specs , DXdiag is not enough(lots of useless info there). use cpuz and open the case to look on the PSU info sticker.

Get rid of the memory, sell it, and buy proper kit sticks , 8 GB of DDR3 vengeance from corsair shouldn't cost you a bunch.

Clear the CMOS and set up the bios from scratch.
 
RuskiSnajper said:
8 GB of DDR3 vengeance from corsair shouldn't cost you a bunch.
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Sounds advice, although it would require a board swap from a P5K Deluxe that supports DDR2.
 
RuskiSnajper said:
Stuttering is mostly caused by operator error, ex: bad hardware choice , OEM, bad configuration, bad driver install

stop using programs such as game booster, do everything manually.


EDIT: Awfully bad thing that your mouse refresh got 125mhz, it's driver error and it should have been set to 500mhz default.

Reinstallation of windows is mostly a waste of time inexperienced users always take lightly, if you didn't have customizations in the first place you probably didn't lose a lot of work.

Most of issues if not all PC issues i did had , reinstallation is not needed. I used to do a reinstall when i didn't knew a fix, nowadays i know how to fix pretty much anything and if there's no fix , i research and find a fix my self , but i do not get any critical situations either since of the experience i already prevent it from happening before it does.

EDIT: A crash took out all HDD info ... how the heck did you do that ?

More RAM won't fix an issue like stuttering UNLESS you have researched and identified that you are low on memory. This is mostly not practically doable with pagefile enabled, you have to disable the pagefile and then see the COMMIT readings in task manager.

You bought another RAM, and you just "put it in there" there is no surprise that you have issues when you don't configure the RAM, i don't suppose you got identical sticks with same version and voltage specification even if it's the same brand and same MHZ , it might have different clocks - plus you never told any specs whatsoever.
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Man I love that arrogance that we get when we know a lot about computers. If I wasn't that way in some way I would be offended on how you responded lol. Nah for real though I will post better specs just haven't gotten around to it. I have the same brand same speed and same voltages on my ram. SuperTalent isn't all that bad for my setup and they are all at 800mhz. I know how to install all my hardware the RIGHT way. Also I know it's not my setup that I have or hardware that I have that's causing the problem. I will agree to your previous comment about how I might have installed some drivers improperly and that's why I decided to reinstall windows cause for the last year I've had this problem and been installing winblows overclocked until now. So I'm correcting the error of my ways in driver and OS install for right now and going to see how that works. Will post my complete specs with CPU and will also post a pic of my system as well. Also I've been neglecting to install all my Gaming device drivers like my mouse and keyboard but it's wasn't set to 125hz because of a driver error is was set there by default and it has 3 option for 125hz, 500hz, and 1000hz. I selected 1000hz when I thought "hey it might be a good idea to install my mouse and keyboard drivers".
 
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Ok as promised here is my cpu-z specs.

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and also here is my RAM CPU-Z specs.

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Hopefully this is enough for you to assume a solution to my problem. Btw I installed Unigine Heaven and ran a benchmark. The stuttering is still there but it's not as bad as it was. I haven't overclocked my GPUs yet but I have overclocked my CPU and that did seem to help the stuttering a little before I overclocked and ran the benchmark the first time. Also Ruskisnajper, sense you suggested not to use GameBooster maybe you could show me what processes I should end in my services tab of MSconfig. You're in luck too cause it just so happens that I'll post pics of all my services. The one below is just the first one XD.
 

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None of those links work.
 
Oh and here is a pic of my system is this helps..... :/

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