evga 6600gt problem

[brazzmunk]

i try playing doom 3 in medium quality on 1024x768
the framerates stay at 60's but i get skipping and choppy movements, i don't know what it is and it is really annoying, does anyone know solution to this problem?

 

[shimsham]

vsync on?

 

[brazzmunk]

no it's turned off

 

[Chode Messiah]

I beat doom3 yay! I haven't played the expansion though.
could be a power issue. maybe something is overheating and/or you have a bad thermal sensor

 

[BillyBobJoel71]

mien does that too. its part of the game itself.remember, the hardest thing possible to do on a computer is shade and draw textures in a game. it will look and do that no matter what the video card, its just how texture mapping works.

 

[BillyBobJoel71]

whoa! i just went in and turned vsync on and viola all those liens are gone! for get my previous post (although it still is hard). turn it on.

 

[Insomniak]

My housemate's LeadTek 6600GT won't play nice with Doom 3 unless vsync is on either.

BTW, how much RAM OP? Anything less than a gig is unacceptable for Doom 3.

 

[ddogg]

hmm u can try it...

 

[brazzmunk]

i tried that but it still would skip frames. Though this actually improved the choppiness in HL2. So semi thanx

 

[BillyBobJoel71]

he has better ram than me, but its the vid card's 128 bit structure porbably.

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: SuperTyphoon
he has better ram than me, but its the vid card's 128 bit structure porbably.

Nope. That 6600GT should BLAST through Doom3 without issues at exceptionally decent framerates, expecially at 1024x768 at medium quality. Something else is wrong.
Turn off all unneeded processes in Task Manager. Also, observe how much memory your system is currently using. Check CPU usage. See just what is eating at your system.
A GeForce 5900nu played this game beautifully at your same exact settings. You should be far and away better than that.

 

[lavaheadache]

I'm wondering if the choppiness is due to the cache lag. Does the choppiness go away after a couple of minutes? I also recommend doing a a config file mod.

 

[Insomniak]

Originally posted by: keysplayr2003

Originally posted by: SuperTyphoon
he has better ram than me, but its the vid card's 128 bit structure porbably.

Nope. That 6600GT should BLAST through Doom3 without issues at exceptionally decent framerates, expecially at 1024x768 at medium quality. Something else is wrong.
Turn off all unneeded processes in Task Manager. Also, observe how much memory your system is currently using. Check CPU usage. See just what is eating at your system.
A GeForce 5900nu played this game beautifully at your same exact settings. You should be far and away better than that.

Absolutely right. The rig in my sig plays D3 10x7, high, 2xAA with ease. He shouldn't be having any trouble at all at those settings.

 

[daveybrat]

maybe just for kicks you could try running the game with everything at stock speeds??
Put your cpu, videocard and ram back to default speeds and try it again.

 

[brazzmunk]

ok here's what i think could be the problem, my ram isn't really top quality, it's generic 1gb, it's not OCZ. it's running at 3-5-5-10 187Mhz.
but than again my cpu is running perfect at 2.6ghz. I just did a clean install because i did have problems with cache and games running choppy. everything seeamed to improve except for doom3. Especially the opening scene with ship flying arround. I was wondering, with my configuration i get some slowdowns ie opening scene, fps go down a bit and than improve.

 

[PingSpike]

This almost sounds like a caching or harddrive issue. Do you have anything running in the taskbar? Are you seeing and hard drive activity that goes along with the slowdowns? I don't think the generic ram should be a concern, perhaps run it through a couple passes of memtest-86 just in case though.

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
This almost sounds like a caching or harddrive issue. Do you have anything running in the taskbar? Are you seeing and hard drive activity that goes along with the slowdowns? I don't think the generic ram should be a concern, perhaps run it through a couple passes of memtest-86 just in case though.

If he was having memory problems, the best thing that would happen is his game would crash to the desktop with a general protection fault error. Worst case, he would BSOD.

Check your hard drive for fragmentation. You should defrag at least once a month depending on how often you install/uninstall programs and create/delete files.

What video card did you have before this 6600GT? Did you run driver cleaner before installing the new card and drivers? Are your motherboard drivers up to date?

Lots o possibilities here.

 

[brazzmunk]

the thing is, it doesn't look like hd-lag problem, i get frame skips evenly. i remember when i had actual cache problems and this looks abit different. I did clean install windows xp. Will come home and check one thing though...I have 3 hd's and the one with doom may be on the same ide cable as dvd/cdrom. someone told me that could slow the system down pretty significantly.

 

[Munky]

Ok, there's a really simple way to test this. Put the resolution down, and turn down the details. Now see if it still gets choppy. If yes, then you know it wasn't the video card, and something else is lagging your system. It the choppiness goes away, then it's a video card issue, and you either have to try different drivers, or maybe your card is underachieving, and possibly borked.

 

[brazzmunk]

tried the suggestion and yes, the problem remains. i will try and see if defragmenting that hd will help in any way

 

[brazzmunk]

ok i tried almost everything, and i still get the even frame skips. it's like a bug in the game

 

[brazzmunk]

OK SO MY FINAL QUESTION WOULD BE.. IS IT MY HARDDRIVE?
i have segate 40gig udma66 x3.. one of them houses doom3

 

[brazzmunk]

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