Random Choppy Frame Rate
I'm using a Leadtek GeForce 6600GT (AGP) with Leadtek-branded drivers
(v67.23). For the most part games run OK, however the racing game, Midnight Club 2, suffers from occasional choppiness. Normally the frame rate is very fluid, but sometimes it gets very choppy, even thought the same race may have run smoothly in a previous instance. I'm hesitent to upgrade the drivers since I don't want to lose compatibility with the rest of my games. Does this sound like a symptom of older drivers or should I look for the problem elsewhere? I already scanned for viruses and spyware but found nothing. TIA System Specs WinXP Pro, SP2 Intel 865PERL motherboard 2.4 GHz P4 (800MHz FSB) 1 GB dual channel DDR SDRAM GeForce 6600GT (AGP) 160 GB WD SATA HD |
What size is AGP aperture set to in BIOS? Try increasing it to something
like 256 MB. -- "War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." "Tim" wrote in message ... I'm using a Leadtek GeForce 6600GT (AGP) with Leadtek-branded drivers (v67.23). For the most part games run OK, however the racing game, Midnight Club 2, suffers from occasional choppiness. Normally the frame rate is very fluid, but sometimes it gets very choppy, even thought the same race may have run smoothly in a previous instance. I'm hesitent to upgrade the drivers since I don't want to lose compatibility with the rest of my games. Does this sound like a symptom of older drivers or should I look for the problem elsewhere? I already scanned for viruses and spyware but found nothing. TIA System Specs WinXP Pro, SP2 Intel 865PERL motherboard 2.4 GHz P4 (800MHz FSB) 1 GB dual channel DDR SDRAM GeForce 6600GT (AGP) 160 GB WD SATA HD |
Tim wrote:
I'm using a Leadtek GeForce 6600GT (AGP) with Leadtek-branded drivers (v67.23). Well why not try the latest NVidia's official 78.01? Those drivers seem to be "old as a stone". |
In article , Tim says...
I'm using a Leadtek GeForce 6600GT (AGP) with Leadtek-branded drivers (v67.23). For the most part games run OK, however the racing game, Midnight Club 2, suffers from occasional choppiness. Normally the frame rate is very fluid, but sometimes it gets very choppy, even thought the same race may have run smoothly in a previous instance. I'm hesitent to upgrade the drivers since I don't want to lose compatibility with the rest of my games. Does this sound like a symptom of older drivers or should I look for the problem elsewhere? I already scanned for viruses and spyware but found nothing. TIA See if the HDD led is flashing when the choppiness occurs. If it is, it's due to the system paging out to the swapfile. Sometimes a heavily fragmented HDD can produce this. -- Conor "You're not married, you haven't got a girlfriend and you've never seen Star Trek? Good Lord!" - Patrick Stewart, Extras. |
"First of One" wrote in message ... What size is AGP aperture set to in BIOS? Try increasing it to something like 256 MB. Thanks for your reply. Up until now, the only surefire fix has been enabling Hyper-Threading on my P4, but then some older games won't run. I suspect that the pausing is related to background processes competing for CPU time, but tweaking the AGP aperture couldn't hurt. It's currently set for 64 MB. |
"de Moni" wrote in message ... Tim wrote: I'm using a Leadtek GeForce 6600GT (AGP) with Leadtek-branded drivers (v67.23). Well why not try the latest NVidia's official 78.01? Those drivers seem to be "old as a stone". Game compatibility, some of the games I have are eight years old but none of them crash with my current drivers. Besides, I thought newer drivers were meant to fix problems with newer games (sometimes at the expense of older ones). What's strange is that the same MC2 race can run many times in a row then suddenly get choppy the next time. That's why I doubted it was a driver issue. |
"Conor" wrote in message t... See if the HDD led is flashing when the choppiness occurs. If it is, it's due to the system paging out to the swapfile. Sometimes a heavily fragmented HDD can produce this. I'll check it out, thanks. |
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Tim wrote: I'm using a Leadtek GeForce 6600GT (AGP) with Leadtek-branded drivers (v67.23). Well why not try the latest NVidia's official 78.01? Those drivers seem to be "old as a stone". try adding another stick of ram if you can afford it or try different settings or send it back. -- Posted using the http://www.hardwareforumz.com interface, at author's request Articles individually checked for conformance to usenet standards Topic URL: http://www.hardwareforumz.com/Nvidia...pict62614.html Visit Topic URL to contact author (reg. req'd). Report abuse: http://www.hardwareforumz.com/eform.php?p=315398 |
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