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gtrivedi

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Hi I have a PC I got from PC Specialist in Dec 2009. The specs are below:

Crossfire ATI 4980
I7 920 CPU
500 GB Harddisk
1050 W Power Supply
Asus Motherboard.
*I have not overclocked anything. Running my PC pretty much how it came*
OS: Windows 7 Professional

I have had no problems with this PC uptil maybe a month back when I noticed that pretty much every game that I play (Fear 3, Crysis 2, Batman AA, Deus Ex, Doom3, Quake 4 and the list goes on) starts stuttering (I can see the whole game coming to a standstill and I can also hear the sound (audio) stuttering. Sometimes the stutter happens for 2 seconds and then for 5 seconds the game runs fine and then steuttering happens again. It becomes unplayable experience. I dont know whats going on with my PC and I have tried searching for solution to fix it on the internet. But I havent found anything concrete. Its definitely either a driver issue or my hardware issue. But I can't pin point.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.
 
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DanteWilhelm

Bright Spark
What did you change a month back?

Update drivers?

Change hardware?


I would reinstall direct X, GPU drivers,


find out your driver details by going to my computer right click, properties, device manager.

find out if anyone else has problems with those drivers and what they did to fix it, maybe rollback the drivers.


check that your leads are all properly connected.


other than that I don't know, probably something else but at least someone who knows doesn't need to write what I just wrote :p


if it is not pertinent to a specific game, but appears on numerous games then the hardware is most likely at fault.

I've no idea on how to check graphics cards for errors, perhaps google and see what comes up?


you could download i think memcheck is it? it's a program which detects faults in your RAM, if thats not the correct name find a program that does it
 
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gtrivedi

Active member
DanteWilhelm said:
What did you change a month back?

Update drivers?

Change hardware?
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A month back I downloaded the latest ATI Catalyst drivers and installed them. No Hardware changes.

I would reinstall direct X, GPU drivers,
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Did that. Still the same issue. I even thought that this could be a driver issue or some update from windows which is causing this I did a windows restore and same issue.


find out your driver details by going to my computer right click, properties, device manager.

find out if anyone else has problems with those drivers and what they did to fix it, maybe rollback the drivers.
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Chedked but didnt find anything concrete.

check that your leads are all properly connected.


other than that I don't know, probably something else but at least someone who knows doesn't need to write what I just wrote :p


if it is not pertinent to a specific game, but appears on numerous games then the hardware is most likely at fault.

I've no idea on how to check graphics cards for errors, perhaps google and see what comes up?


you could download i think memcheck is it? it's a program which detects faults in your RAM, if thats not the correct name find a program that does it
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Thanks. I will google but I'm suprised no one else has had this issue?
 
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DanteWilhelm

Bright Spark
me too.

normally it's from a substandard PC in relation to the games specifications which is NOT the problem here.


I can't see what it would be, something very strange and underlying.

Hope you get it sorted.
 
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gtrivedi

Active member
Hey Vanthus.

I took your advice and tried installing older drivers. But for some reason the problem came back. I remember back in Dec 2009 when this PC was brand new how flawless every game ran on this machine. Compared to then , these days the games were virtually unplayable because of constant stuttering, audio lag, micro-freezing etc etc.

So I did what a computer novice like me would do. I completely wiped (formatted) C:\ and installed fresh Win 7 x64 SP1 Ultimate. I made sure I'm not connected to internet. Then the next thing I did is I looked for ATI drivers which came out around Dec 2009. I installed ATI Catalyst drivers 10.1

then I reinstalled batman Arkhum Asylum and the framerate stuttering/micros freezing just vanished. Didnt noticed even once. I played for an hour so it's still early to say that the problem is gone.

This could mean that the problem was the software (directX, vc++ distributable code or even the corrupted ATI Drivers). I don't know!
However I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I'm not going to update my ATI drivers and also keep this machine away from Windows Update. I dont know why but i think some security update from MS could have messed up something.

I'm just hoping (fingers crossed) that this is not a hardware issue and this game stuttering doesnt come back to haunt me again :[rollinglaugh]
 
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gtrivedi

Active member
is there any utility through which we can see the ATI Card activity? Like Task manager can draw a graph of CPU and memrory usage. is there any utility for ATI graphics card which can do the same? I would like to learn more about my computer :)
 
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gtrivedi

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Hey Vanthus. I played a few games yestreday for a couple of hours. Yep now I can say that this was a software problem as all games ran smooth as hell :)

Clean install of Win7 (After formatting hard disk)+ATi drivers from Jan 2010 + no windows update did the trick.
I created a windows restore point and will enable Windows update. Atleast now I can restore back if something goes awry.

Thanks guy! All sorted :)
 
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DanteWilhelm

Bright Spark
that would have been the last thing i would have suggested, last as in i wo uld have said it not last as in last resort.


i just forgot about this thread and should have checked back xD


i did a complete reinstall of windows xp when i had problems with my old pc and it fixed things


however i always do the things i put above first


i try to do things in order of how much of a pain they are to do! simple things first


good to know it's sorted
 
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