Sorry, but this is not normal.

Hi.

I have recently got an ACER 5920. Im happy with everything except one thing. I do not understand why games (all these ones : Commandos 3, Silent Hunter 3, Pro evolution soccer 5 & 6, Black & white 1, Il2 sturmovik, GRAW, CoH, Far Cry, Brothers in Arms 1 & 2....) suffer from constant and annoying shuttering (even with everything at low ) and neverending tearing.

I have updated my drivers to 163.44, and still get tearing and shuttering
I have played with NVidia control pannel for long and still get tearing and shuttering
I have defragged a few times without success
I have removed all applications from the back without success
I have updated all the drivers i could think of in my laptop
I have even FORMATED my hard drive (laptop is 1 week old ) without success!!

i thought the 8600gt was a good graphics card!

here are my specs:

160gb 5400rpm
8600gt
core 2 duo t7300 (2ghz)

PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

How much ram do you have?

If you don't have 2gbs and you're running Vista, then this is very normal, sorry, as you're running out of physical ram, and the system has to tap into the hard drive for more. And we all know that this way is extremely slow, thus causing stuttering in games.

 

I have 2 gigs of RAM.

 

have you downloaded and installed the three major hotfixes for Vista?

 

Ram is good.

Have you checked that your cpu is indeed running at the full 2.0GHz and is not throttled back and causing lag?

 

where can i download the hotfixes?

well, system and dxdiag recognise the full 2ghz from the CPU...

 

Have you updated your directx version? Have you tried this with any other drivers/games? Have you run a virus-scan? Have you checked the task manager to see if any other programs are running in the background? Have you removed all bloatware from your system?

 

Microsoft of course... use the Knowledgebase (KB) references to find them.

Compatibility fixes - KB938194
Memory - KB940105
Performance - KB938979

 

Have you done everything that he said ? ^

 

Ive got vista, and thus Directx10

 

Aye, and DX10 refresh pack for August... and yes even with DX10 you should update it.

 

i cannot find the directx10 refresh pack

 

Try:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/xna/aa937788.aspx

 

I've got the same problem, be interesting to know whether updating directx has any affect.


Edit: It says "The Microsoft DirectX® End-User Runtime provides updates to 9.0c and previous versions of DirectX — the core Windows® technology that drives high-speed multimedia and games on the PC."

Not DX10?

 

Just curious..but by shuttering, do you mean stuttering?

And what's tearing?

I need to understand the problem better...are the games very choppy? Laggy?

Do you have any screen artifacts? (Little lines and distortions that appear on the screen as you play?)

If he reformatted his harddrive, I'm thinking this can be a bigger problem than just software...

Lots of people have Vista with 2 GB of RAM and are running these games perfectly...so I wouldn't be so quick to blame Vista..

 

I can run bf2 on high at 30fps or low at ovr 150fps, but time to time i get choppiness/lag which hs nothing to do with my internet connection. Ram usage never goes above 1.8gb.

 

Its like minimal pauses every 2-5 seconds

im going to try running all this games again after having installed all the updates

thanks you all

 

even with a 2 year old core version of directx built into vista you still need to DL updates.

 

check for new BIOS releases for your laptop on ACER website.I had lots of hard drive working in vista with my DELL Latitude D620 before but an urgent release by dell solved the problem.also download & install latest INTEL INF Utility.

 

Open the nVidia control panel and ensure that "Threaded Optimization" is set to "Off." Reboot and see if the stuttering is still there. That setting has been a major cause of performance problems for me on both my desktop and my laptop, in both Vista and XP. Seems like threaded optimization is so optimized after all.

 

i tried everything!!!!!!!!

and still getting same shuttering and same tearing!!!!!

i dont understand technology!! wtf is going on

thanks a lot for your help

 

check v-sync is enabled either in games or nvidia control panel. this should remove the tearing.

make sure that windows power management is set to high performance or manually edit the power profile so everything is set to max.

 

& turn on Automatic updates

 

You could always install XP.

 

i think ur laptop video card or other component. is over heating send it back... IMO