G73JH BF BC2 Laggy/Jumpy Gameplay

I'm have the 10.8 5870 Driver installed and games look great but when I'm playing bad company 2 on medium settings there is this tiny lagg every second or two when I'm running or driving especially. It's like a tiny little skip like you'd see watching a scratched dvd or something. I'm getting 45 to 80 FPS. But it happens even when I have it on the lowest settings. I've googled it but can't seem to find any info.
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

 

What model of G73JH do you have? If it's the BST7, then the 5400rpm hard drive is your problem. I had the same hitch in many of my games and I knew the video card and CPU were not the problem. Replaced the hard drive with a 7200rpm Seagate Momentus XT and now all my games run on ultra with no lag whatsoever.

Just something to consider....

 

Does it last all game long or just when you join a server? I have something similar and I think it's punkbuster at work. Try going to the punkbuster site and do a manual update.

 

I suddenly started getting 10-15FPS constantly.

 

this is a problem with the autopark built-in "WD scorpio blue 5400 HD" that have some g73

If you have a 5400rpm disk do this:

install: CrystalDisKinfo ---> Advanced optiones--->"AAM/APM CONTROL " ---->disable "advanced power control" on 2 disk.

This should fix your micro-stuttering problems

 

Hola Lord Neno,

the tool that you post if applicable only for 5400 rpm units or for any hdd. And what it actually disable, hdd sleep mode???

 

It works for any hdd, but the only that have this problem with autopark is the WD scorpio blue 5400rpm.

 

I have the G73JH-RBBX05. It says 7200 rpm. It is refurbished from newegg. Could they have switched out the hard drive with a slower one?

 

I don't have good enough internet to play online. This is all on the campaign. Not connected to the internet.

 

Is this called visual stuttering? I just read that somewhere in a G73JH review in relation to bf bc2. Everywhere else I read about playing bf bc2 on the G73JH report flawless gameplay.

 

I play BC2 and never noticed stuttering (my g73jh has 7200rpm disk)

 

I have this same problem and I have a G73JH-A1 (7200rpm HD)

This problem did not occur until I flashed to the new VBios. FWIW.

This issue is not HD related and a new unfortunate side effect of something else, possibly the new Vbios unless the OP has not flashed his

 

That's reassuring because now I know I'm not alone with this problem.
Has anyone had any success fixing this?

 

Did you flash your Vbios to the either of Chastity's or Gary Key's VBios? If not, then we can rule that out.

 

I dont remember my gameplay was jumpy.

Just that the sensitivity is so bad as if im playing on a controller.

 

No I used AMD and Asus Drivers

I Tried this but no change. I also defragmented the hard drive and confirmed that I do have the 7200 rpm model.

 

lol u have to flash the vBIOS.. there's a sticky in this forum on how to do it... i have no problems.. running on 1920X1080 , 4X MSAA , 4XAA and HBAO off... 30fps+....

 

I had flashed the vbios following hellycrys instructions to the mod one and flashed my bios to 0211 using catalyst 10.8. I just went back and flashed vbios to stock and then back to the beta just incase that would help. Then I uninstalled 10.8, rebooted in safe mode and ran cclearner on the registry, rebooted and installed 10.10 but I still have that lag in bg2.
Do I need to do all this again from fresh? bios, vbios, 10.10? I was hoping this was a bit more common and that someone had fixed it before. Any advice?

 

No need to reflash the BIOS or VBIOS.

Uninstall your ATI stuff. Driver Sweep/CCleaner in safe mode. Reboot, and install 10.10 WHQL Custom Drivers only. Then install CCC and other additions.

 

Driver sweeper is useless for AMD Catalyst for a while now. AMD has broken it. Not sure of the details, but I know it's no longer effective. Seems AMD doesn't like Driver Sweeper?

Driver Cleaner still works and there is a driver cleaner from TWL on Guru3D that you can use. Just an FYI.

10.10 works great for BC2 I thought. I use Driver Cleaner and CCleaner in Safe Mode and then uninstall the VGA in the Device Manager (even after the HD5870M drivers uninstalled, still do it).

 

Driver sweeper works fine for me cleaning 10.9...

 

You think it is working fine, not saying the program itself is broken, it's just not effective any longer. For both Nvidia and ATI it leaves junk behind that it says it removed, goes to wrong folder, doesn't remove the correct .DLL and barely does anything for registry. Generally, just running CCleaner and deleting ATi folders is more effective than Driver Sweeper is.

It's up to you. Personally manually going through the files and uninstalling some profile settings left behind in the registry and CCleaner is one. Driver Cleaner+CCleaner is two. TWL ATi cleaner+CCleaner is 3. Those are the only 3 methods I would use.

 

got a link for the TWL cleaner? nvm, found it. Here's a copy of it in .bat format:

http://pcaudio.org/stuff/ATI Crap Cleaner.bat

 

Ok. I followed all the steps on the Definitive Guide to Uninstalling Broken or Corrupted ATI Driver files page and also ran the TWL Cleaner and installed the driver first, rebooted and installed the rest in the 10.10 Install. BC2 still has that lag. I ran FRAPS and took a video but when recording the FPS would show 30 FPS in red and without any of the lag. So without FRAPS Movie = lag. With Fraps Movie = no lag. All Medium settings. Everything else off or x1. 45-50 fps.

 

Are you running the game with VSync enabled? If so try with D3DOverrider.

 

I wasn't running VSync enabled but I have tried it and I still have that lag. I installed D3DOverrider and ran it on medium-high settings with vsync on and there's a huge improvement. I still get the occasional lag but they're smaller and further apart. Nothing I can't deal with. I just wonder why I have this problem and most others don't.
Thanks for all your help!