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video and sound sometimes zittery inmost games
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Norm wrote:
video and sound sometimes zittery inmost games P5E/E8400, 4 gig memory, 9800gtx 512k, vista home-prem 64bitT How's that working out for you? |
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"Mr.E Solved!" wrote in message . .. Norm wrote: video and sound sometimes zittery inmost games P5E/E8400, 4 gig memory, 9800gtx 512k, vista home-prem 64bitT How's that working out for you? zittery = jittery |
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"Mr.E Solved!" wrote in message . .. Norm wrote: video and sound sometimes zittery inmost games P5E/E8400, 4 gig memory, 9800gtx 512k, vista home-prem 64bitT How's that working out for you? zittery = jittery Have a look at the thread here. When you get a dual core, there is a patch to install. Not everyone finds the whole procedure helps, but it may make a difference. http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=60416 Before you try any of that, another thing you can try, is to set the "affinity" of a sound player program, to a single core. If you use control-alt-delete and open Task Manager, there should be an option to set some stuff per process. Affinity controls which core a program runs on. When a program is launched on a dual core, both tick boxes will be checked, and the program can bounce from core to core. Some games don't like this. You can either use the Task Manager, after the program is started, or you can use one of many programs that launch a program and set the affinity to a single core for you. This is an example of such a program launched, called "Runfirst". This should run a program on the first of the two cores, and you'd make a shortcut to stuff runfirst in front of the rest of the command syntax. Some games run smoother when forced to stay on a single core. http://www.activeplus.com/us/freeware/runfirst/ Another thing you can try, which really shouldn't make a difference, is disable EIST (speedstep). Just like Cool N' Quiet on AMD, the Intel processor has a programmable multiplier. When the processor is idle, the multiplier can be dropped (say 6x). When the processor is carrying out a calculation, the multiplier is raised to the nominal value (say 9x). The Vcore voltage is also adjusted. The two things in hardware are called FID and VID, and the settings may be adjusted 30 times per second. With EIST disabled, the processor should stay at the high multiplier value. You can disable EIST, and then verify your hardware parameters with CPUZ, to see if everything looks correct or not. EIST should be in the BIOS. It is also possible to stay at the high multiplier, by making a change at the OS level, but the BIOS method is a bit more direct and to the point. http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php Paul |
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"Mr.E Solved!" wrote in message . .. Norm wrote: video and sound sometimes zittery inmost games P5E/E8400, 4 gig memory, 9800gtx 512k, vista home-prem 64bitT How's that working out for you? zittery = jittery I'm going to add something different than paul did: Has it ever not been jittery? If the system has never been smooth, you may have a video card that is overclocked aggressively, or clocked too high for the specific conditions it's operating in. When a video card begins to fail, bits that shouldn't flip do...and at first they might be recoverable bits, here and there...symptoms being stuttering as the data has to be rechecked/resent. In that fashion, system ram that fails can do the same thing...non fatal bit flips that require a recheck. However, that's not limited to just 3d game operation and if the system/OS seems otherwise stable, just not the gaming portion, you can maybe rule out bad ram, unless you have 4G. Depending on your specific mobo, and your specific RAM sticks, you may have to make manual timings changes, or activate certain settings to accommodate 4 ram sticks. But you may only have 2. Lastly, Vista sucks hard, there are technical changes under the hood that would curl your toes if you knew what happened many times a second to kept your machine 'legit', all the while robbing the entire system of performance and stability. Who knows, you may have a problem with the "secured pathway" and that's bit flipping...fun, right? Run both 3D Mark 2006 and Vantage (the free versions) and see how they do. It's a nice rig, it should perform. |
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video and sound sometimes zittery inmost games
Also, many older games will not run properly on dualcore, you must set affinity to one or other of the cores: Thief3, Codename: Outbreak, etc. rms |
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"rms" wrote in message ... video and sound sometimes zittery inmost games Also, many older games will not run properly on dualcore, you must set affinity to one or other of the cores: Thief3, Codename: Outbreak, etc. rms I appreciate the response. The new build was successful with hardware choices and first boot up. My last build was 3+ years ago, tech has changed allot. Vista makes it more complicated and I'm a little over my head. With every thing as new, it's a little hard to pin point the issues All newer games are choppy with sound and video. The MB came with a add in sound card - Soundmax.(not real impressed). I have tried several different nvidia drivers using win uninstall and driver cleaner each time. The frustration is that most current games ran just fine on old XP pro computer (AMD). I have installed World Conflict, COD4 Supreme Commander 2, even Guild Wars is choppy, plus a few other games that don't support dual processors. Nothing is over clocked. |
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"Norm" wrote in message ... "rms" wrote in message ... video and sound sometimes zittery inmost games Also, many older games will not run properly on dualcore, you must set affinity to one or other of the cores: Thief3, Codename: Outbreak, etc. rms I appreciate the response. The new build was successful with hardware choices and first boot up. My last build was 3+ years ago, tech has changed allot. Vista makes it more complicated and I'm a little over my head. With every thing as new, it's a little hard to pin point the issues All newer games are choppy with sound and video. The MB came with a add in sound card - Soundmax.(not real impressed). I have tried several different nvidia drivers using win uninstall and driver cleaner each time. The frustration is that most current games ran just fine on old XP pro computer (AMD). I have installed World Conflict, COD4 Supreme Commander 2, even Guild Wars is choppy, plus a few other games that don't support dual processors. Nothing is over clocked. But you're now running 64bit Vista? Did you ever stop to think that maybe it's the 64bit OS that is causing the problems? I know a lot of guys will get upset when I mention that for most people a 32bit OS is all they need. Just because you have a 64bit CPU doesn't mean you have to worry about running a 64bit OS. There's a lot of conflict problems when running games that are coded for 32bit and you try to run them on a 64bit OS. Some games have patches, some don't. I think the root of your problems is your OS. JLC |
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"rms" wrote in message ... video and sound sometimes zittery inmost games Also, many older games will not run properly on dualcore, you must set affinity to one or other of the cores: Thief3, Codename: Outbreak, etc. rms I appreciate the response. The new build was successful with hardware choices and first boot up. My last build was 3+ years ago, tech has changed allot. Vista makes it more complicated and I'm a little over my head. With every thing as new, it's a little hard to pin point the issues All newer games are choppy with sound and video. The MB came with a add in sound card - Soundmax.(not real impressed). I have tried several different nvidia drivers using win uninstall and driver cleaner each time. The frustration is that most current games ran just fine on old XP pro computer (AMD). I have installed World Conflict, COD4 Supreme Commander 2, even Guild Wars is choppy, plus a few other games that don't support dual processors. Nothing is over clocked. If sound is the issue, upgrade to XP. |
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The MB came with a add in sound card - Soundmax.(not real impressed). I
have tried several different nvidia drivers using win uninstall and driver cleaner each time. Soundmax, hum. Have you done a search for the manufacturer of this card, perhaps they have separate newer vista drivers. I know Creative cards use a wrapper of some sort to operate with older games under vista, and updating the drivers takes a bit of work. rms |
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