"stuttering" on my celeron566

[JiNk]

System:
Abit VT6x4
Celeron 566@566
ATI Rage Fury Maxx
10 gig HD
128 Megs RAM
etc.
Running WinME

Problem: Well, I noticed this in 3dmark 2000. When there is a steady movement going (in a straight line or so), I can notice it stuttering crazily. It does this in other games like homeworld when you are flying around in the intro, and pretty much any game where the game controls the camera for an intro or so. In movies (avis, mpegs), it is much more noticeable. There is a constant stuttering when I play movies. In IE, anytime there are a lot of popdowns or flash on the page, it will scroll VERY slowly (stuttering at the same time) untill it passes that area on screen. I don't know what this is from, it doesn't do that on any other system, and it did it when I had win98se. I reformatted and put on winme to see if that fixed it, but it didn't. Any help on this situation would be greatly appreciated!

 

[beer]

Do you have DMA turned on your hard drive?
What you are describing sounds like disk accesses.

 

[JiNk]

That's what I thought, but DMA is enabled, and 64k reserved for dma transfers. The HD light barely flashes.

 

[Sephiroth_IX]

So basically, any time you have to do more work than a 566 can handle, it gets choppy? Framerate, bro.

 

[JiNk]

rofl, no.... I would notice if it was framerate problems.

 

[ForeverSilky]

ocing the celery to 850 would probably give you a nice boost.

 

[jinsonxu]

Hmm, i'm abit outdated, but what chip is that graphic card using?

 

[Goi]

Its a dual Rage Fury board...it shouldn't be THAT bad, definitely more than enough for a stock Celeron 566.

 

[jinsonxu]

Hmm, then i'd wonder about the drivers and the DirectX installation. Doesn't seem to be ram problem.

 

[JiNk]

It is not a ram problem, nor a speed problem (I can play the movies on a P-MMX200 and it runs fine), so maybe it is the drivers? I does this in any directx version. There isn't any mobo settings I can change to fix this?

 

[Kappo]

Does it do this anytime a directx is playing or does it also effect OpenGL? Just curious...
ALSO!
If you are using a WD Caviar I had the same problem...if you have a spare HD try that one as well...

 

[Mem]

I had the same problem ,if you have things running in the background(disable them)that should solve the problem,if not well try defrag.

 

[JiNk]

It doesn't matter if I am running opengl or directx (I believe), since 3dmark is run on directx (right?), then I definately know that it is a directx problem. Defragging doesn't help, nor does closing all programs in the backround. I have tried it many times. I would say it was the hard drive, but it is the same one from my last system (PMMX), and that had no problems with it =\