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    BF2 Skips around on G1s

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by jewbilee, Sep 16, 2007.

  1. jewbilee

    jewbilee Notebook Guru

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    For some reason, whenever I play BF2 on my G1s, i seem to get some stuttering. Its to the point that I can't play it because i get only a handful of frames/second. It seems like ill go from 90 frames down to 50 and its that drop that makes it stutter. I'm running 163.11 drivers. ANy ideas?
     
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    Lithus NBR Janitor

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    Dropping from 90 FPS to 50 shouldn't cause any stutters. Stuttering only happens if you drop below 20-30 FPS. Make sure it's not your internet connection that's causing the lag.
     
    Lithus, Sep 16, 2007
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    jewbilee Notebook Guru

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    Im on an Internet2 connection with a ping of 32. And yes, it does drop that low. On a good day, I run between 70-80, then it starts to stutter, drops to 50, then down to 25-35.
     
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    bf2 not supose to make the g1s crumble...maybe it's heat, or just some setting...sometime those drop are acces or scan from AV/Firewall...what are you using?
     
    versusqc, Sep 16, 2007
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    hard drive accessing and incorrectly handled interrupt requests can cause <1 sec stuttering
     
    osomphane, Sep 16, 2007
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    check what programs are running, I have on occasion noticed that spool32 will cause BF2 and 2142 to stutter on my C90, which is about the same comp :)
     
    designerfx, Sep 17, 2007
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    I have the same experience. The CPU is limiting the performance.
    Both cores seems to be 99-100% whenever the framerate stutter.

    Seems 8X00M GT series is very buggy,
    and cannot coordinate well with the cpu in vista environment,
    is limiting the performance,
    or the cpu just cannot catch up with the game load.
     
    planet, Sep 17, 2007
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    Not enough RAM memory?

    I have noticed that i run better BF2 on a desktop AMD 64 3000+, 2 GO ram, 6800GT, XP that on G1S with Vista.

    In fact Vista takes 800 or 900 of ram so you have only 1.2 go for BF².

    TRy also new 163.67 and MS hotfixes ( see it on nvidia website ou nzone) , they say that both improve performances under BF2, RB6, Supreme Commander...
     
    soyouz, Sep 17, 2007
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