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I had been having problems with game stutters or hiccups (or whatever you want to call it) every 2 or 3 seconds, for about 1/2 of a second each time. Needless to say, this really pulls you out of the game experience. Well, I've seen other responses on the forum, but none that fixed my problem. I tried AGP settings, different drivers, added more RAM (up to 1GB now http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/em...icon_smile.gif), reinstalling, etc, etc. I tried *everything*.
So how about that fix? http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/em...on_biggrin.gif Ok, here's what works for me:
1. Load up a game and walk around. Note jerkiness. Irk. http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/images/smi...smiley-mad.gif
2. Go back into the game menu, and set screen resolution to 800x600x32, then resume the game.
3. Note silky smoothness! Yay! http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/em...icon_smile.gif
4. Go back into game menu, set res. to however you like it, then resume the game.
5. Note it's STILL SILKY SMOOTH! WTF?! http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/images/smiley/blink.gif
Of course, you have to do this each time you play, but it's a small price to pay. How or why this works I have NO idea, but it makes a huge imprevment for me! Please report on whether this works for you. I know it seems illogical and stupid, but it must do something in the drivers or whatever that results in a smooth game. http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/em...on_biggrin.gif
Specs:
AMD Athlon 64 3000+
Chaintech VNF3-250
1GB DDR 400
MSI GeForce FX 5900XT
Audigy 2 ZS
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I had been having problems with game stutters or hiccups (or whatever you want to call it) every 2 or 3 seconds, for about 1/2 of a second each time. Needless to say, this really pulls you out of the game experience. Well, I've seen other responses on the forum, but none that fixed my problem. I tried AGP settings, different drivers, added more RAM (up to 1GB now http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/em...icon_smile.gif), reinstalling, etc, etc. I tried *everything*.
So how about that fix? http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/em...on_biggrin.gif Ok, here's what works for me:
1. Load up a game and walk around. Note jerkiness. Irk. http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/images/smi...smiley-mad.gif
2. Go back into the game menu, and set screen resolution to 800x600x32, then resume the game.
3. Note silky smoothness! Yay! http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/em...icon_smile.gif
4. Go back into game menu, set res. to however you like it, then resume the game.
5. Note it's STILL SILKY SMOOTH! WTF?! http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/images/smiley/blink.gif
Of course, you have to do this each time you play, but it's a small price to pay. How or why this works I have NO idea, but it makes a huge imprevment for me! Please report on whether this works for you. I know it seems illogical and stupid, but it must do something in the drivers or whatever that results in a smooth game. http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/em...on_biggrin.gif
Specs:
AMD Athlon 64 3000+
Chaintech VNF3-250
1GB DDR 400
MSI GeForce FX 5900XT
Audigy 2 ZS
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You should'nt have to do all that , did you disconnect all usb gameing peripherials then start the game. It worked for me on my 1 pc that had a stutter problem.
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Are you doing this with the demos or the full game? I know this worked on the demo for some reason, but I didn't think it did on the full version. If so, that's good, but weird though. Wonder what's going on.
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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by gain967:
You should'nt have to do all that , did you disconnect all usb gameing peripherials then start the game. It worked for me on my 1 pc that had a stutter problem.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Thanks for the input, but I had tried that already. Someone also said to disable the gameports in the Device Manager, but that didn't help, either.
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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by jpaisley24:
Are you doing this with the demos or the full game? I know this worked on the demo for some reason, but I didn't think it did on the full version. If so, that's good, but weird though. Wonder what's going on.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
This is the full game with the 1.1 patch. I have the latest official drivers for everything installed (nForce 4.24, Geforce 56.72, Audigy 2 1.84.40) and Windows XP all patched up.
I run at 1280x1024x32 since that's what my LCD is (for some reason they have these whacky aspect ratios on LCDs... Normally it would be 1280x960 for 1.333 aspect ratio.) Anyway, I was just messing around in the game and decided to try a lower res to see what the FPS would be, and WOW! It was just insanely smooth. So I started bumping the res up slowly. All the way back to 1280x1024 and it was STILL smooth. http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/images/smiley/crazy.gif
So I exited the game and restarted a couple times to test, rebooted, tested again, and it worked every time! This is either some weird driver bug or a very strange FarCry bug, not sure which! BTW, the stuttering is pretty bad, it's not just a slowdown, it actually totally pauses for about 500 ms.