Stuttering D3
Stuttering D3
NF7S v2
Ti4400 (5303 drivers)
1 gig corsair XMS
XP2600+
Onboard Nvidia Soundstorm
XP Professional Corporate
Lately the game like freezes momentarily every 30 or 40 seconds. it like stutters.
the other day I Windows keyed out of d3 to check to see who had dropped in to teamspeak. I'm thinking that might have done something.
What I've done so far:
Uninstalled the vidcard drivers via the add/remove programs control panel.
uninstalled the card in the device manager.
Reinstalled the vidcard drivers
Fresh D3 install.
It's still doing it, any ideas?
Ti4400 (5303 drivers)
1 gig corsair XMS
XP2600+
Onboard Nvidia Soundstorm
XP Professional Corporate
Lately the game like freezes momentarily every 30 or 40 seconds. it like stutters.
the other day I Windows keyed out of d3 to check to see who had dropped in to teamspeak. I'm thinking that might have done something.
What I've done so far:
Uninstalled the vidcard drivers via the add/remove programs control panel.
uninstalled the card in the device manager.
Reinstalled the vidcard drivers
Fresh D3 install.
It's still doing it, any ideas?
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Defrag your hard drive.
Those symptoms are the same as people usually get when their system tries to page something out to disk (or back) and the HD has to skip all over the place to get the page -- a slight delay, a little stutter, and then everything's back to normal for 30 seconds, when the next paging operation happens.
Watch your HD light next time you play -- see if it flashes every time the game stutters. Or, just defrag (and make sure you have some free space on drive C) and see if it fixes the problem.
Those symptoms are the same as people usually get when their system tries to page something out to disk (or back) and the HD has to skip all over the place to get the page -- a slight delay, a little stutter, and then everything's back to normal for 30 seconds, when the next paging operation happens.
Watch your HD light next time you play -- see if it flashes every time the game stutters. Or, just defrag (and make sure you have some free space on drive C) and see if it fixes the problem.
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running Windows XP, you can get page swaps any time. "Gee, you have 800 megs of unused RAM. Lemme page that out. OK, now lemme page it back in, and page out the new 800 megs of unused RAM."
Other possibilities include FindFast (ugh!), virus scanners, or any of a number of other background processes.
Other possibilities include FindFast (ugh!), virus scanners, or any of a number of other background processes.
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Bear in mind that if it's your page file that's fragmented then the standard Windows Disk Defragmenter isn't going to do much good as the page file is locked and can't be touched by disk utilities while the system is running. The official Microsoft way to defrag a page file is to move the page file to another partition and defrag the partition it was on before recreating the page file on that partition. A far easier way is to get a hold of a program like the full version of Diskeeper (the standard windows defrag is a derivative of diskeeper) and use it's ability to defrag the page file before the OS locks it.
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Admiral LSD wrote:Bear in mind that if it's your page file that's fragmented then the standard Windows Disk Defragmenter isn't going to do much good as the page file is locked and can't be touched by disk utilities while the system is running
uhhh Norton's Disk Doctor can defrag PageFile, it even has a color code for Page File areas. the regular windows defrag however cannot.
Pun, the same stuttering happened to me a long time ago, and it was my sound card (SB Live) that was the cause. (At least for me it was) I reinstalled the drivers for the card and all was well. I just don't remember if I had reinstalled the drivers without uninstalling D3 first or not. Wish I could be of more help, but I can tell you that it's not your HDD that's the problem. Also check to see if fastwrites are on in BIOS.
Punisher, I had a similar problem involving D3 stuttering every 5-10 seconds. It turns out that the cause was having 2 different joysticks installed at once, with 1 of them not connected. Getting rid of one of the installations solved the problem. I doubt that you have the same problem, but I thought I'd give it a shot.