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    Graphic Stutters/hiccups!!!

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by n00dles, Nov 24, 2008.

  1. n00dles

    n00dles Notebook Geek

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    Soo today ive noticed that my graphics is starting to have noticable hiccups every 5 sec or so. the glitch is very small but noticable. i play alot of FPS (CoD5) and these hiccups has been extremely annoying. Can any1 plz tell me hwo to fix this problem. this happens in all of my games soo its very fustrating

    everything was working fine until today -______-

    17" WSXGA+ (1680 x 1050) "Glossy" LCD
    nVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS w/512MB GDDR3
    Intel® Core™2 Duo T8100 2.1GHz Processor w/3MB L2 On-die cache - 800MHz FSB
     
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  2. emike09

    emike09 Overclocking Champion

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    A lot of things can cause this. It is almost always a process issue. If your running FRAPS, turn that off. Try turning off wifi and bluetooth both. Turn off any anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-anything. Close out any and all unneeded processes and services, update your BIOS, update drivers (Try 180.70) and see if all that doesn't help.

    What changed from today compared to yesterday? Was ANYTHING installed or configurations changed?
     
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  3. n00dles

    n00dles Notebook Geek

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    yea today i downloaded 180.70 driver, thats when i started experiencing these hiccups, i then tried downgrading to 173.13 driver but the hiccups are still there.
     
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    Hagen Nordheim Notebook Guru

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    Sorry to post on this old thread, but I also have the ocassional hiccups/stuttering about every 30 seconds, although my frame rate always stays above 30 fps. They are very fast, but it's still annoying (it happens on farcry 2 and sometimes on fallout 3 too).

    I almost don't run any services while gaming, I don't know if this have anything to do with Vista x64. Does anyone have similar problems?

    These are my specs:
    GPU: Nvidia 9800m gts with 179.28 Nvidia Notebook Drivers
    CPU: Intel t8100 @2.1GHz
    RAM: 4GB DDR2 @667MHz
    HDD: 250GB 7200RPM
     
    Hagen Nordheim, Jan 20, 2009
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