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    Bottleneck?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Eden_Fire, Sep 12, 2009.

  1. Eden_Fire

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    Greetings all, my HP HDX16 has the following specs:
    2.4ghz Core 2 Duo 3MB Cache
    4 gigs 1066mhz Ram
    9600M GT GPU 512MB DDR3
    500 gig 5400 RPM HDD

    Now this computer does everything i need it to and more. But I have noticed something...In Call of Duty 4 I notice that sometimes it stutters during running to a mission and during intense firefights. This game is being read off of my HDD not off of a DVD.

    Could the stuttering be attributed to my 5400rpm being a bottleneck?
     
    Eden_Fire, Sep 12, 2009
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    cloud962 Notebook Consultant

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    No.

    It might be caused because your 9600 can't handle the intense firefights very well, especially if you are running the game on high.
     
    cloud962, Sep 13, 2009
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    Same thing here. I've got the GT 130m and experience some lag during intensive fighting. Both 9600 and GT 130m are no high end. So you might want to play 2006 and older games for proper framing.
     
    jgore00, Sep 14, 2009
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  4. Eden_Fire

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    I'm not convinced its the video card. The game's recommended requirements are met and exceeded by far.

    The game is being launched solely from my HDD not from a disc and i think that might be the problem.
     
    Eden_Fire, Sep 15, 2009
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    When you ask a question, to which you don't know the answer, and other people tell you the answer, don't brush them off and come up with BS that you made up.

    First, nothing loads from the HDD except when the level itself loads. You know, during the load screens. Second, a HDD is much faster than a CD drive, so your logic makes absolutely no sense.

    Your video card is the bottleneck. The 9600m GT is a midrange card and can stutter during intense 3D games.
     
    Lithus, Sep 15, 2009
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  6. Eden_Fire

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    I don't see anywhere in my posts that i'm "brushing off" people's answers. My friend has the same set up with a 7200rpm HDD and his seems to run flawlessly. Least better than mine. He has a Core2Duo 2.4ghz 3MB Cache, 9600M GT GPU, yet he has a different hard drive and it runs fine.
     
    Eden_Fire, Sep 15, 2009
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    Stuttering is usually caused by downclocking of the video card (software controlled, possibly overheating). Hardware can be identical but if software is different, you can experience vastly different things.
     
    sgogeta4, Sep 15, 2009
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    to settle the argument, why not turn off video features in CoD until it stabilizes. Don't change anything else, just the video settings.
     
    newsposter, Sep 15, 2009
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    All settings put to low on 1024x768 res. Same issue. Shadows off, glows off etc. its not just during firefights. When i am running behind a squad member it will stop for like 1/6th of a second and then keep going every so often.

    Then when i start up CoD4 again it says that it needs to optimize CoD4 for my computer....when it does that...it puts 4x AA on and everything on high.

    V-sync is off.

    Also sgogeta I ran HMonitor and the GPU got up to 68 degrees while playing for ten minutes.
     
    Eden_Fire, Sep 15, 2009
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