Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2

This game i wanted to play so bad but i was very dissapointed when i tried playing both multiplayer and single player demos. whenever i was in the game, i would have a"skipping".. not a slowdown in speed but a skip in like the graphics or something... the weird thing is, no matter what level of detail i put, from lowest to highest, it will do the exact same thing. i play rainbow six vegas perfectly so i dont understand why i cant get this skipping to go away. i updated all my drivers and i tried basically everything - has anyone tried this game on their laptop?

hp pavillion 9500t
-core 2 duo t7500 2.2 ghz
-8600m gs
-2gig ram
-160 gig 5400rpm
-windows vista home premium

 

Now by updating all your drivers, did you also install the latest DirectX?

Mike.

 

could be an overheating issue?

 

I have the same specs, except T7300. I also have the skipping issue, tryed fiddling with the settings but no use. And it's definately not overheating. I've tried to play ArmA, and the right palm rest gets much hotter when playing it then GRAW2. Probably will have to wait for a patch.

 

graw is poorly coded for the pc. but i know what is going on.

graw wants to use like 1.5 gigs of ram or so, and windows vista probably wants a few hundred megs all to itself. you just maxed out your ram. other working files that should be stored in ram are being stored in your hdd as cache. whenever graw suddenly needs that file (which is basically all the time) the game skips while its waiting on the hdd.

more ram (or switching to xp) will solve your issue.

 

try defragging your hard drive.

 

You very well may be running out of RAM. Check your hard drive activity light while gaming and see how active it is. If it is on constantly or blinking a lot then that is an indication that you are out of system RAM and Windows is using the page file on the hard drive as virtual RAM, which is extremely slow. You might want to get a 2GB RAM module to replace one of the 1GBs you have in there now, that would fix the issue:
RAM DEALS.

 

try to use vista's readyboost.
Pop in a 1gig flash drive and it should increase your prefomance.

im going to try this as well.

 

using a 1 gig flash drive as system cache is definitely better than the hard drive disk. but its not going to be nearly as good of a solution as just giving it the ram it needs. it most likely will not completely remove the issue, but it might make it less prevalent.

if you have $100, get a 2 Gig memory module. if you only have $20, get a 1 gig flash drive. don't get a cheap $3 one, get a fast one.

 

Weird that when you play GRAW2 that happens to you, because I have a slower pc and it runs great and I run it on high too.

My Specs are:
2.0ghz AMD Turion
1gig RAM
80g HD
x1600 256 ATI

It probably has to do something with your drivers, maybe the ones you have are not ready to play GRAW2. Try downgrade to another driver or wait for a better one.

 

You guys should read up on the ghostrecon.net forum.
there seems to be some drivers problem with vista
ppl playing on window xp with lower spec can handle the game pretty smooth