You know whats REALLY irritating?

[meelk]

My last nvidia card was a 5900fx, the first nv card I experienced the nvidia hitch on. I moved to ati and never had it again. Now, being a new 7800gt user, its back. This is very distinctly an nvidia issue, where the screen "hitches" or "stutters" for a fraction of a second in play. When I had my 5900fx it was happening every minute, now its roughly every 10 or so. This is *not* my imagination, it was very well discussed just a few years ago with threads across the net, and I'm sure other people here will remember it, or are still experiencing it. What I'm wondering is, is there any kind of magic bullet fix for this annoying issue? (I'd get a x1800xl if it werent out of range $ wise).

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[Corporate Thug]

system specs?
what games are u running? settings?

 

[meelk]

Originally posted by: Corporate Thug
system specs?
what games are u running? settings?

irrelevant. Ive already said its not just me. the other system I experienced this on was completely different. Ive already had 2 different people tell me they have noticed this on BF2 and one of the need for speed games, again, on various systems. Think of it as being another incidence of a "shimmering" style problem, where a range of people with various configurations all see it.

 

[smthmlk]

no, it's actually quite relevant. there's a good deal of nvidia video card owners out there who don't experience hitching, myself and several friends being a small sample. Now, what are your system specs, driver version(s), and any other games besides BF2 that exhibit this hitching?

BF2 runs fine for me, though sometimes servers lag quite bad (and as such, i stick to servers where players<=44). What settings are you trying to run bf2 at (AA and AF levels too)? I've not had any major issues with BF2 running the 78.03 drivers, running bf2 with most things on high (2xAA, AF on medium) @ 1280x1024 on my system (see sig).

 

[thelanx]

Um check if there aren't other programs that are being used in short but intense periods. Also, how much ram do you have? Not enough ram can cause "hitching" when it is loading from the harddrive.

I have a 6800GT and do not notice anything like that.

 

[BroadbandGamer]

I have no hitching problem with BF2. It runs smooth as glass on my system with everything cranked.

 

[Cookie Monster]

Vsync turned off? Is there any image tearing during the stutter?

 

[otispunkmeyer]

do u have a audigy card?..... i remember my nvidia card hitched with my old audigy a while back, soon as i used on board sound, or switched the audigy sound off....it was fine, so i took it to be the audigy interfering

 

[moonboy403]

everybody gets hitching and stuttering in BF2 if they don't have enough ram with texture setting on high
setting it to medium solves this problem
you need 2 gig of ram for BF2

 

[BFG10K]

nVidia GPUs can experience stuttering when paired with nForce chipsets. This a known problem.

 

[JRW]

I dont play BF2 (yet) but Im experiancing random hitching (pausing) in FarCry, its rather annoying and I havent been able to remedy it. The framerate is awesome otherwise, It seems to of happened since installing an X-Fi soundcard ..I may have to put my Audigy 2 back in and see what happens.. System specs in Sig.

 

[ZobarStyl]

You'll have to give a better example than BF2...that's one of the most memory-hungry games to date, and everyone with <2gb RAM who tries high texture settings gets hitching, no matter what their GPU. People aren't trying to disprove you, but I'm chiming in as another 6800GT + NF chipset owner who experiences none of these problems, so we need to find the discrepancies between your rigs and ours. Don't just blanket statement if you want help.

 

[Topweasel]

Originally posted by: BFG10K
nVidia GPUs can experience stuttering when paired with nForce chipsets. This a known problem.

Not to me, wonder where I was when this was happening. Any particular Nforce Chipset, I have used all but the Nforce 3 with 3-4 different Geforce cards and not a single hitching problem.

 

[nitromullet]

Originally posted by: BFG10K
nVidia GPUs can experience stuttering when paired with nForce chipsets. This a known problem.

I've owned several NV cards with nForce2 and now with nForce4, and neither have had any hitching issues. Nor did I have any hitching issues with my FX5900 or 6800GT and i865 either.

 

[meelk]

amazing how people cannot listen. Look, I'll just go out of my way and find threads from years ago and prove to all of you this is was a widely discussed problem. As for BF2, I never hitched once in the demo with even 1 gig and a 9800 pro. Dont let my post count make you believe I am some kind of moron, as been building my own systems for 15 years now. I dont need "trouble shooting". Its a damn known nvidia issue.

 

[route66]

Amazing how *YOU* cannot listen - there are people telling you they do not have this problem.

 

[Gamingphreek]

Seems like someone (*cough* OP *cough*) simply wants to create another problem.

"Hitching" is not a video card problem unless the video card does not have enough texture memory to load all the textures to, in which case, your system must use the AGP aperture.

Any other "hitching" you might experience is due to either poor game coding, or not enough RAM.

You know what i find amazing, the OP posts here with something and then when we try to help with the problem he tries to tell us we are wrong. Heres a hint if this is a serious thread, dont keep trying to flame or doubt the people who are trying to help you.

-Kevin

 

[michal1980]

if all these people are having problems with hitching, don't you think there would be more posts there urs?

so far RIGHT NOW, IN THIS GEN AND LEST GEN (6 series, 7 series,) seems like your one of the few that brought this problem up... unlike the shimmer, so you should wake up, and help people try to help you, instead of attacking everyone.

 

[pulsedrive]

Originally posted by: BFG10K
nVidia GPUs can experience stuttering when paired with nForce chipsets. This a known problem.

Really? Is there a fix for this problem? I have been seeing this lately, which I hadn't for a good month after O put my 7800 in my system, so I don't think it is card related, it started when I noticed my hardrive searching more than it should be, and the "hitching" seems to be related to when my HDD is accessing something.

 

[Keysplayr]

OP. It's not so much the post count we are concerned with. It's that you joined these forums such a short time ago. 1 month. A lot of people have access to multiple ISP's these days and it's nothing for them to create new accounts and keep them handy just to troll with. Which seems like what you're doing here in spite of people offering to help you by asking question about your setup. Your answer? "Irrevelent". Nice. Go away.

 

[meelk]

instead of attacking everyone? this was a widely known issue around 4 or 5 years ago. Its stuns me that people cannot grasp that fact. Now, finding the correct stories and posts about it on the net from 5 years ago, theres the problem. This has been repeately detailed as an nvidia problem only, *just* like shimmering. I'm far from stupid. I've seen this exact same nvidia problem on 3 seperate systems now, that DO NOT hitch with ati product. If you want to "diagnose my problem" you might as well be on your merry little way, it wasnt what I asked for initially anyway.

 

[ZobarStyl]

Originally posted by: meelk
Look, I'll just go out of my way and find threads from years ago and prove to all of you this is was a widely discussed problem...I dont need "trouble shooting".

You do that. People were honestly trying to help you, and you wrote them off. You asked for a fix in your original post, now you don't want one? If you don't want any help, then you posted a troll thread.

What we, the less angry users, are trying to tell you is that many of us do not have this problem, and although you know 2 guys who do, that does not constitute a global problem, and if you were to post your whole rig specs, we might find what the problem is in compared to ours. Personally, I'm betting you had textures on medium in BF2 with the 9800Pro, and you upped them to High with the 7800GT and didn't take into account that you needed more system RAM, not VRAM, and thus the stuttering.

I know a guy with corrupted texture edges in every 3D game with his 9800Pro, but you don't see me spouting off angry anti-ATi threads. Instead, I found the best fix I could for him, and called it a day. Consider the latter.

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: meelk
instead of attacking everyone? this was a widely known issue around 4 or 5 years ago. Its stuns me that people cannot grasp that fact. Now, finding the correct stories and posts about it on the net from 5 years ago, theres the problem. This has been repeately detailed as an nvidia problem only, *just* like shimmering. I'm far from stupid. I've seen this exact same nvidia problem on 3 seperate systems now, that DO NOT hitch with ati product. If you want to "diagnose my problem" you might as well be on your merry little way, it wasnt what I asked for initially anyway.

We already know that is not why you posted. And there is something about an inferiority complex I once read for people who repeatedly state that they are not stupid. I think maybe you should just stick with ATI and your problems are solved. Oh wait, sorry, you weren't looking for a solution.

 

[meelk]

or hey, guess what, since I only played BF2 during the demo period, its not me experiencing this problem on a completely seperate rig. Its also not me experiencing it on need for speed, as stated. I dont want or need people to "help me". I originally asked about what I considered a very well known issue with nvidia I was suprised to still see represented on current gen cards. I dont need your assistance with pissant trouble shooting. Were I to have realized you people have no concept of what was a very real problem years ago and continues to apparently be one to a lesser extent today, I wouldnt have bothered. I have seen this same nvidia problem across various motherboard chipsets including nforce, via, and now uli. Its far from being in my imagination.

Request this thread be locked by an admin.

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: meelk
or hey, guess what, since I only played BF2 during the demo period, its not me experiencing this problem on a completely seperate rig. Its also not me experiencing it on need for speed, as stated. I dont want or need people to "help me". I originally asked about what I considered a very well known issue with nvidia I was suprised to still see represented on current gen cards. I dont need your assistance with pissant trouble shooting. Were I to have realized you people have no concept of what was a very real problem years ago and continues to apparently be one to a lesser extent today, I wouldnt have bothered. I have seen this same nvidia problem across various motherboard chipsets including nforce, via, and now uli. Its far from being in my imagination.

Request this thread be locked by an admin.

Second the request for lock. And, before it is, let me add that in no way shape or form is this a "well known" NV problem. It is a "well known" poorly setup or underpowered or driver conflict PC platform issue. ANYONE can have hitching if the system is under or near minimum required specs for any given game. There are plenty of folks in here, ATI and NV owners alike, me included, who had hitching in FEAR with only 1GB of system ram and settings on max. extra RAM solves this problem for me and a few others. There are quite a few threads on this. BF2 is another game where ATI and NV users had major slowdowns and disk thrashing/stuttering/hitching because they didn't have enough RAM. 2GB alleviated that problem there. Zobar hit it on the head. This is a troll thread. And sadly, there will be plenty more ATI troll threads in light of the imminent release of the 512 7800GTX. Anything and everything will be tried to sway people from NV. So your thread here is kind of expected and we know to look out for them.

Kudos.