My PC is S-S-Stuttering

El Brenty · Post by **El Brenty** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 2:45 pm

I have this problem previously, so I'm assuming it's the graphics card.

When I'm using CorelDRAW, the menu won't update for a few seconds, then it works fine.

When I play Half-life, as I'm walking of people are talking, I freeze up for about a second, or they stutter when they talk.

On Unreal, the motion gets a little jumpy. Even if I knock the resolution down to nearly nothing, it makes no difference. Beautiful smooth scrolling in between the intermittant stuttering though!

Anyone got any suggestions? I was going to upgrade the graphics card anyway and use the Matrox card to upgrade an older PC here.

I didn't get this problem when I first installed Windows XP, it seems to have developed since I added the TV capture card this time around!

Themovieman44 · Post by **Themovieman44** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 6:06 pm

That has happened to me before, never found out the real cause, we just got a new comp. So.....graphic card, possibly but honestly i am really not sure.

Truggy · Post by **Truggy** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 11:27 pm

what video card u useing? If its a NVIDA go to their website and update your drivers... otherwise go to best buy or a comp store and buy a grafix card, and if your gonna buy one, get a good one..

El Brenty · Post by **El Brenty** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 12:34 am

It's a Matrox card, and apart from a previous time when it stuttered, it's been working fine. Has all the latest drivers. Started stuttering when I installed a capture card. Removed the capture card, still stuttering. I bumped up the memory frequency at about this time, could be a possible cause, although that's down to normal speed again now.

Strange one eh!

Truggy · Post by **Truggy** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 1:26 am

i still say buy a good video card...yall need to go buy some games and play them online! I COMMAND U ALL MUUHAAA jk hehe

Luteleigh · Post by **Luteleigh** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 1:47 am

Yuo haven't got a system restore point for before installing the capture card have you? If so, restore it, and then try again, or not at all.

Truggy · Post by **Truggy** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 5:22 am

NO, never system restore, thats what messed up my old computer, the more u system restore, the more bugs become more re-occuring..i didnt know this and i used to system restore all the time, the best thing is to bring it into someone who knows what their doin with computers, never system restore, ide suggest turning it off, if u want instruction on how to turn it off let me know

edinc90 · Post by **edinc90** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 9:49 pm

Or you could just buy an Apple...

Truggy · Post by **Truggy** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 9:54 pm

apple's suck..no offence to any apple users, hardly any computer store gives tech support or fix's apple computers anymore...Everything has basically gone to windows

edinc90 · Post by **edinc90** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 9:59 pm

Truggy wrote:...hardly any computer store gives tech support or fix's apple computers anymore...

That's because if Apple started having third parties (Dell, Gateway, etc.) sell their products, Apple would go under. 85% of Apple's profit is hardware. And there are like 4 stores around where I live that fixes Apple computers.

Truggy · Post by **Truggy** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 10:03 pm

yeah, but if best buy is the closest place to get your puter fixed, and the next town is the only other place, which one would u go for, say the other town was 100 miles....i wouldnt take my computer 100 miles...thats why everythings going to windows....ever seen that movie "the riches of silicon valley" or something like that, against bill gates and the other dude that owns apple

edinc90 · Post by **edinc90** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 10:07 pm

Pirates (riches?)
Steve Jobs (<-CEO of Apple AND Pixar)

Truggy · Post by **Truggy** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 10:18 pm

thats the dude, steve jobs...hehe

Raptor · Post by **Raptor** » Sun Feb 22, 2004 4:05 am

Well I don't consider best buy to be exactly a computer service shop LOL... ask them what the certs of their techs are... If it's not at least COMPTIA A+, make the drive! System restore is not a bad thing. The system restore we see today is a descendant of NT 4.0's Last known good. Windows system restore is not designed to be a routine utility, it's design is to recover from a bad driver or hardware install, or a bugged software install. That it does very well. Sys restore can't multiply problems, if it appears to, it's because the problem already existed at the ponit in time the restore point was set. Now, with that being said, it is best to try to uninstall the offending driver, software or hardware manually BEFORE doing a system restore. Most times, after uninstalling the offending item, the error that stays behind is registry related. And sys restore is perfect for recovering the registry, since it contains a complete sopy of the registry at the time the restore point was created. The biggest problem I've seen with people using the system restore is sloppy housekeeping on the PC to begin with. For example you install some software, create a restore point, then uninstall that software, then restore without a new restore point... THAT will cause an error, since the restore has registry entriesfor the now missing program.

El Brenty · Post by **El Brenty** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 4:27 pm

I tried to remove the capture card driver, also did a system restore to before it was originally installed, still get the problem. It's gotta be something up with the graphics card. It's improved slightly, but not gone away. I think the graphics processor chip could be overheating, I did have this problem before on a Win98 machine - same card.

Raptor · Post by **Raptor** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 4:59 pm

If there is a heat sink on the GFX Proc, attach a small low profile fan to t he top of the sink, this should eliminate any overheating

El Brenty · Post by **El Brenty** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 7:45 pm

I tried adding a fan onto the heatsink, I also removed all the additional PCI cards I had, tried the roll-back, uninstalled driver, reinstalled driver, even flushed the graphic card's bios with a BIOS utility, but the same problems happen! I think there's something up with the card, and I need to get a replacement! Sadly, the one I want costs about Ã‚Â£350! AARGH! Just have to wait it out and see.

2nd_Recon · Post by **2nd_Recon** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 3:02 pm

Make sure the fan leading out of the comp isn't clogged with years upon years of dust?

Truggy · Post by **Truggy** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 5:39 pm

lol....i just got my new computer already i have to go get it cleaned, that much dust in the fan already, or ill just clean it myself

...i say go get it looked at and get the problem fixed

pan-modo_pictures · Post by **pan-modo_pictures** » Sun Feb 29, 2004 5:55 am

It just so happens that I'm watching pirates of silicon valley in school right now. I had a few problems when I had low memory (256 mb). Right now on my second monitor I am running a s*** video card that I got for free and it does not seem to be slowing my comp down.

El Brenty · Post by **El Brenty** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 9:52 pm

Good news everyone!

It wasn't the graphics card! All of this was being caused by a virus that had got into my system! It's now been cleared out, and when I'm playing the aforementioned games, they're smoooooooth and fast! All the 2D accelleration works great now as well! The cause of the stuttering was the virus trying to jump to other programs.

When I tried the graphics card in a different computer, that also had the virus!

So, all I can conclude is if your PC ain't working properly, things are going a touch slow, do a scan for viruses. Fortunately, the virus I had was cleared out with a free stinger program! I got the virus from a supplier who in turn got it from Disneyland Paris!