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PC Stuttering (tech advice needed)
I encountered a computer problem that baffles me, so maybe you guys know what's up.
I've done nothing to warrant this recent change in performance, but now my Left 4 Dead game is really being screwy.
The game loaded fine, but once I actually got control of my character I would experience 'hiccups'. By 'hiccups' I mean the game would freeze for a few seconds with the background sound on loop. I couldn't do anything. It was like major PC lag. then it would go back and I could move for a little and play the game, then anywhere from 20 seconds to 4 minutes later it would do it again. When it was not doing it's random freezing my fps was top-notch, no lag, no artifacts, no nothing.
I should probably mention that just the other day CoD4 crashed. I was playing for a bit with no lag, then I was kicked out of a server by punkbuster not liking a program (turns out it was gsc.) So while the game was at the main menu, I minimized it, right clicked gsc, shut it off, then clicked the tab to maximize CoD4. Immediately, before the game had a second to maximize, my computer got the blue screen with some text and it rebooted before I was able to read it. It came back up and I was able to play CoD4 for 2 hours with no lag, hiccups, or anything.
I'm experiencing no problems at all with windows. It's only my games.
Any ideas on what's going on?
UPDATE:
I just tested Fallout 3 on max settings. Ran perfectly for 20 minutes. I purposely traveled to hot spots with huge landscapes and many enemies attacking me at once. No framerate issues, no hiccups....nothing.
UPDATE 2:
I did a DSKCHK (or whatever it's called for the computer to scan for problems with the harddrive on boot) and it found nothing.
COMPUTER SPECS:
Windows XP HOME SP3, AMD Athlon 64 Dual Core 5200+, NVidia Geforce 9800GTX+ (Added two months ago), 4gigs RAM(added two months ago)
The computer is 3 years old, now in it's fourth year. I know about graphics cards and reasons for a computer slowing down, but the hiccups just leaves me dumbfounded. I did a google search and though I found some tech sites with suggestions, they were all old suggestions and the people had more symptoms that I am not.
Odd isn't it?
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yeah. thorlord would know more than most of us so just pm him. hes a cool dude and plays on steam often so maybe he'd know precisely whats up with your system.
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| Jase Elendius |
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I'll keep that in mind next time.
I fixed the problem though! Turns out it was a bad video card driver I had installed, and that SpeedFan was giving me wrong temperature readings.
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yeah always keep your video card drivers up to date.
i would have guessed previously that it was a network error, since L4D was having the problem and Fallout 3 was not.
i had the same problem in Valve games (L4D, TF2) and it turned out to be a * wireless connection, so i beefed up the router, removed our VoIP phone from the network loop, and updated firmware on the router and it fixed all the problems.
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