Good tip on how to get rid of stuttering ingame (VISTA)

Ey guyz, I thought I'd share with you what I just discovered. I had real terrible ingame stuttering with games like Dark Messiah, Fable and Oblivion. It was as if the texture-loading slowed everything down extremely. After going through all the tweakguides I could find, numorous driver and so on - I decided to take a good look at Vista.

And what I discovered might be old news to a lot of you; it sure helped me.

When I start up a game with administrator privileges (go to properties of the .exe and check it), all stutters in Dark Messiah and Oblivion are gone - and a lot less apparent in Fable. I can run very high settings now with stable framerates (Dark Messiah 1440x900 all high 60+ fps, Oblivion Make it Pretty mod 30+ fps) without stuttering. After I turned on WinXP SP2 compatibility mode with Fable, it was even smoother. Same story with Quake 4. Compatibily mode wasn't enabled with Oblivion and Dark Messiah.

Ofcourse - this might work with other games as well.

Anyway - I don't now why the setting helped so much - just hope it can help you too!

 

Yeah run as Admin helps a TON.

Not only with running smooth but also with games running PERIOD
I recommend doing that on any game you install.
And, really, most applications.

I haven't gotten much from turning on the XP Compatibility mode, though.

How many frames did it bump you?

 

Well - with Quake 4 it was just that much to make it go 60+ most of the time, instead of frequently dipping. Haven't run any actual benchmarks - but my eyes don't lie. Fable as well - it reduced tearing and small boost in fps.

When i tried it with Dark Messiah it didn't help at all. Don't know if it made it worse - but I didn't see any real difference.. but hey - that games runs very smooth as it is anywayz.

Just give it a shot - can't hurt

 

Okay, this is probably a stupid question, because you guys obviously know what you're talking about, but by "Run as Administrator" thingy is grayed out. How do I fix this? I've heard about using the shortcut tabs, but I can't see how that affects anything...

By the way, I've managed to run Fable at 1920 x 1200 maxed out at completely smooth framerates, but that was before I went hotheaded and wiped my hard drive, haha.

 

Really all maxed out with Fable at 1920x1200?

Hmm. then I must be doin' something wrong. That game just won't run completely smooth. Even at 1440x900 without AA and AF it's not 60+ fps

About the administrator thingy - you shouldn't try to check this in game explorer. Just go to the gamefolder and rightclick directly on the .exe => properties. Then it shouln't be grayed out.

 

mine is also greyed out even with the exe in the install folder.

 

have you updated vista? have you checked for game patches? have you updated your drivers?

if you answered yes to all three questions, then I can help you no further

 

Hmmm this is interesting... I'll have to try it with Prostreet. I'm really close to getting nice smooth gameplay.