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    Framerate Stutters When New Textures are Loading...

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by stonedzombie, Aug 16, 2011.

  1. stonedzombie

    stonedzombie Notebook Consultant

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    Hey again guys,

    Sorry about the bombardment of questions. Tis been a while since I've been able to play new games with my computer.

    Anyway, whenever I play a game that's "free roaming" (GTA, Infamous are examples of free roaming games), the framerate kind of stutters a bit whenever new textures load up. Is this common? Specifically have this problem with GTA 4 and Fallout: New Vegas. Anything I can do?

    Btw, I have a 6990m and 2630 Intel Processor.

    Thanks!
     
    stonedzombie, Aug 16, 2011
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  2. LVNeptune

    LVNeptune Notebook Virtuoso

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    If you turn down view distance and/or drop the texture down one that should help out significantly. I am not sure if the games stream textures from the HD but switching to an SSD would fix that if that were the case.
     
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  3. stonedzombie

    stonedzombie Notebook Consultant

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    Really appreciatetge reply!

    Are these options available in game?
     
    stonedzombie, Aug 17, 2011
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    chillcut Notebook Guru

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    GTA 4 should run fine on max settings on this GPU - hands down.

    Did you do the common benchmarks to see how your system is performing? Are the drivers up2date? And what does "stutters" mean in numbers? Like going from 60 FPS to 20 and back?
     
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    stonedzombie Notebook Consultant

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    Yea the drivers are up to date. I haven't done any benchmark tests but will as soon as I get home.

    When I say stutter, I mean each time a new texture loads up in the back ground, it just skips for a split second. But keeping in mind new textures load up all the time as you walk around a free roam map, the skips happen pretty often, just about every time a new texture appears.
     
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    How are your temperatures?
     
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  7. stonedzombie

    stonedzombie Notebook Consultant

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    Not sure, but I think they're fine, as I never have any general Framerate problems aside from when new textures appear in a free roam map.
     
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    SSD would probably fix this. You have the same issue in WoW (Older but same issue) until you pop in an SSD then all the characters loading in and out of your screen are seamless.
     
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    stonedzombie Notebook Consultant

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    If I stay idle, its no problem. Its only when I'm moving and new textures load up (buildings, mountains, scenery, etc.) in the background. Lags for a split second everytime.
     
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    SSD sure, or you could just get a good defrag program that supports priority file access and put the games you play most on high priority.

    Works like a charm.
     
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  11. LVNeptune

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    GTA4 doesn't run at max settings on my 580M I seriously doubt it would on the 6990
     
    LVNeptune, Aug 17, 2011
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