My Asus G1s-A1 Is Stuttering, Please Help!

Hey everyone, all of a sudden my lappy is starting to stutter. Dont worry about my temps and what not. I have them all under control and with in the norm. The processor is not throttling either. I am using drivers from laptopvideo2go. I tried a couple of them to no avail. Can someone point me in the right direction? All my drivers are up to date and everything. I have reformated and installed the chipset drivers from intel to ensure i have the latest ones. I also installed the sounds drivers from realtek themselves, to again, ensure i have the latest drivers. I dont know what else this could be, im stumped

 

actually it seems to be vsync issue. When i turn vsyn on it goes away but when I have it off it stutters, anyone else have any input on it though?

 

acutally sorry i lied it still does it where vsync is on or off

 

Have a read of these:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=172717

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=218092

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=215417

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=207592

 

thanks, i see that its a driver issue, is there any updates on this porblem? have any body seem to fix it for good?

 

It appears that different drivers may change it's appearance, but there's no definitive fix yet. The good news is that nVidia do seem to be releasing drivers regularly, so they're clearly undergoing active development.

Why not email nVidia and/or Asus and ask them? At least if nothing else, it shows them the problem exists and still isn't fixed.

 

im really gettin mad about this whole thing, in all the forms people have problems witrh this. I cant return it to newegg cause of some bs, any way of gettin my money back from asus?

 

What kind of stuttering is it? I had stuttering in games and i reinstalled Vista with the newest 174.xx drivers and all that went away. Describe the stutter your having because different stutters in different apps or otherwise can mean different things.

 

Its the stuttering that occurs in all of these notebooks. Its supposidley a driver thing with memorry. Negz listed all the threads that had to do with it, theres a video in one of them to but I cant seem to find it now. It happens in games like WoW and UT3. Where is not really pausing but when ur walking it goes slow then fast then slow and fast. Reeally weird and annoying. They say drivers 163.67 fix it but i cant seem to download them from laptopvideo2go. Im just gettin upset becuase i didnt spend 1400 on a laptop that doesnt work properly. I just installed the 174 and I dont see it yet but ill let you know in a litlte. But like also its sooo fusturating

 

Ok well it does still stutter with 174.xx drivers. I tried em all, any other suggestions?

 

If your running XP, then install the 163.67 drivers and if your running Vista then install the latest 174.xx drivers. 174.xx on XP doesn't cure the stuttering. Only other suggestion is going back to 163.67 on XP but since it didn't work, then try to take back the Lappy. Just call Asus Support and see what they can do.

 

I honestly do like the laptop, its a good machine except for this 1 problem, which is a big problem. I just didnt know if Asus was aware or if its Nvidia knows and if theres going to be a solution

 

Of course they know about it. I'm not sure who's to blame, but the blame certainly can't lie solely with ASUS because certain other notebooks suffer from the same problem, and the longer it goes on, the less likely they are to do anything about it.

I eventually found a remedy in the form of 163.67. (Vista)

It's the ONLY driver that I can run my machine with that doesn't cause the stutter.

However, I call it a remedy rather than a solution, because I do feel as though I may be missing out on some of the performance gains that could possibly be had with newer drivers, especially when I read consistant feedback from others about significant increases with newer drivers. I just noticed that 174.12 runs really smooth, until my famous stuttering reared it's ugly head about 45 seconds into a game of UT3 (But I knew it would do anyway, I was just torturing myself !!)

Until this evening, I wasn't to unhappy with running 163.67, because I didn't see a vast performance difference with the newer drivers, until now that is, when I ran 174.12. As soon as you hear the fan kick into hyperspeed it's s-s-s-STUTTER TIME.

It's definately something to do with the way things are handled when the temperature reaches above a certain threshold. Whether it's GPU management, CPU Management, Windows controlled, driver controlled, or BIOS controlled. There are many theories on this forum, and for the first time, I've finished experimenting, and to be honest, caring about what's causing it. I just want a real solution in the form of an update for whatever component is causing it. What you will notice is that with 163.67, your fan will never kick into hyperspeed, but it will with all of the later drivers, very closely followed (a matter of seconds) by the stutter. Obviously 163.67 doesn't work your GPU as hard as the later versions.

It could well be that with any of the later drivers, the system temperature is deemed to be at such a high level, the only way to manage it by causing this throttling effect, and 163.67 prevents the temperature from reaching that level, by not pushing it quite so hard.

If we all say 163.67 is a SOLUTION, then they certainly won't do anything about it, the 9 series is just around the corner, and then they'll be able to forget all about our 8600M GT's / GS's Look at the names in this thread, and also in the threads linked to on page one of this one. My name, along with certain others is cropping up in every one of them. Perhaps we should get together and start to make some serious noises.

Oh well, here we go, another roll back to good old 163.67 ......


P.S. I've tried almost every driver, Negative LOD clamp, every hotfix (although the one that ends in 05 actually cured the judder, but gave such low framerates that things were almost unplayable), V Sync, no V Sync, I've even addded an extra 2 Gigs of Dual channel RAM to my original 2 Gig setup, just in case that was causing a problem. I've tried every piece of advice on this forum. 163.67 is the only way to go.

 

Honestly I think nvidia don't even acknowledge the problem exists, I've yet to see them mention the 8600M GT specifically.

The only sure way I've seen of getting rid of / making the stutter unnoticeable is keeping your GPU under~95C load. That seems to be when the stutter kicks in, however this is not really a solution.

 

im tryin to DL 163.67 but laptop2video does not have them, when i find it in the forums the link comes back dead