rasputeena
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HI, I am new to the forum. I've been having a problem for awhile now, and ive been racking my brain trying to figure it out. Whenever I try to run almost any game (mostly newer games, i can play older games such as Diablo 2) Once it loads to where i should be able to move around, it will freeze for approx 10-30 seconds, and then unfreeze for approx 2-10 seconds. Which renders the game completely unplayable. And sometimes while this is happening the sound is skipping. I thought at first that it was because i was using onboard sound, so i bought a Sound Blaster Live! card, and it still does the exact same thing. Here are a few games that do this to me:
Unreal Tournament 2004
Rome: Total War
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
Here are system specs:
HP Pavilion 304w (FIC AM37 motherboard)
Athlon XP 1800+ 1.53 Ghz
256mb PC2100 DDR RAM
PNY GeForce4 ti4200 64mb
Creative Sound Blaster Live! LS
Windows XP Home
Direct X 9.0c
One thing i should mention is that I took out my Geforce card and plugged my monitor into my onboard video, and the games stopped "stuttering" and we're playable. Of course, the graphics we're very poor playing this way, but the stuttering stopped.
Here is everything i have tried to do to fix this:
Latest video drivers
Latest sound drivers
3rd party video drivers
3rd party sound drivers
Latest BIOS update
Latest motherboard drivers
ran a memory test
switched RAM slots
Latest mouse drivers
Formatted HDD and did fresh WINxp install
Overclocked GeForce card
Used 3rd party software to decrease PCI bus latency
Turned down graphics settings all the way
Turned down audio settings all the way
Turned off all background applications
Used windows update and got all updates
Opened Case and used box fan for extra cooling
I'm sure there are a few more things i've tried, but that's all i can remember right now. If anyone has any information or advice that would help, i would really appreciate it. Thanks
Unreal Tournament 2004
Rome: Total War
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
Here are system specs:
HP Pavilion 304w (FIC AM37 motherboard)
Athlon XP 1800+ 1.53 Ghz
256mb PC2100 DDR RAM
PNY GeForce4 ti4200 64mb
Creative Sound Blaster Live! LS
Windows XP Home
Direct X 9.0c
One thing i should mention is that I took out my Geforce card and plugged my monitor into my onboard video, and the games stopped "stuttering" and we're playable. Of course, the graphics we're very poor playing this way, but the stuttering stopped.
Here is everything i have tried to do to fix this:
Latest video drivers
Latest sound drivers
3rd party video drivers
3rd party sound drivers
Latest BIOS update
Latest motherboard drivers
ran a memory test
switched RAM slots
Latest mouse drivers
Formatted HDD and did fresh WINxp install
Overclocked GeForce card
Used 3rd party software to decrease PCI bus latency
Turned down graphics settings all the way
Turned down audio settings all the way
Turned off all background applications
Used windows update and got all updates
Opened Case and used box fan for extra cooling
I'm sure there are a few more things i've tried, but that's all i can remember right now. If anyone has any information or advice that would help, i would really appreciate it. Thanks