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), reinstalling, etc, etc. I tried *everything*.
So how about that fix?Ok, here's what works for me:
1. Load up a game and walk around. Note jerkiness. Irk.
2. Go back into the game menu, and set screen resolution to 800x600x32, then resume the game.
3. Note silky smoothness! Yay!
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?!
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.
Specs:
AMD Athlon 64 3000+
Chaintech VNF3-250
1GB DDR 400
MSI GeForce FX 5900XT
Audigy 2 ZS
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), reinstalling, etc, etc. I tried *everything*.
So how about that fix?Ok, here's what works for me:
1. Load up a game and walk around. Note jerkiness. Irk.
2. Go back into the game menu, and set screen resolution to 800x600x32, then resume the game.
3. Note silky smoothness! Yay!
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?!
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.
Specs:
AMD Athlon 64 3000+
Chaintech VNF3-250
1GB DDR 400
MSI GeForce FX 5900XT
Audigy 2 ZS
<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.
<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.
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.