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Stuttering on my PC. Need some advice!
Thatim
Member Posts: 240
Heya,
Well I played WAR in the OB, but it was abit stuttering sometimes. Not when I was in combat, but when I was running, so probaly when I need to load a new scenerie.
I messed around abit with the GFX options, but it didn't really work. I know my computer isnt that great, but I just don't have that much money 
Well the specs are as follow:
CPU: AMD Athlon 3000+
Ram: 2Gig (4x 512)
GFX: Nvidia 6800xt
Mobo: Asus A8N Sli SE
And some other shit
Could anyone sugest what to do? Buy a new CPU? I am not looking for max settings, but just to have the game runnig smooth.
Thanks in forward!
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Your close to the bottom end of reccomended specs, if your not looking to upgrade and just want to smooth it out some, try going down to low settings, reducing your resolutiion, disabling or otherwise stopping any other non essential processes running and defrag your hard drive. If after that it still stutters you might need to change some hardware.
If your thinking if changing hardware, vid card first, then if that doesn't solve it try the cpu. I'd reccomend getting a mobo+cpu upgrade combo, vid card, ram and psu. Keep in mind, new mobos are PCIe for video, you have an AGP port on your existing one, so If you buy a vid card for that you won't be able to reuse it down the line if you build a new system.
Everything listed you could find for about 400 bucks. Vid=150, Mobo+CPU Combo=150, RAM=50, PSU=50. Or thereabouts for a decent rig. You'd be able to reuse your existing drives, tower (if its stock ATX, or microATX depending on the mobo), and all your external accessories.
I'd upgrade to:
-video: Leadtek WinFast PX9600GT Zalman Edition 512MB DDR3 256-bit
-motherboard:MSI P35 NEO2-FR
-proc.:Intel Core2 Duo E7200 2.53 GHz Box
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~400USD
Thanks alot for awnsering my question!
Hoop too see you on the battlefield soon
Well, Your graphic card is the biggest problem here. You could find a better card but if you have an old AGP card the best card for it is a 7900 card. If you have a PCI-E card then no problems just get a 9600 card or something else. A 7900 card is really cheap if you can find one and will at least give you some boost to performance, you could check with your friends if anyone of them have one lying around.
But I would suggest a uppgrading of everything, computers don't age well. If you can afford it, get a new one.
The 3rd option is clocking. Unfortunatley clocking an AMD processor is not good unless you have an amazing cooler, you could however clock your graphics card if it have good fans. Not as good as getting a new computer but it could be a temporary solution. Also clean out your computer using "easy cleaner" and "Add-aware", they are free. And get all the latest drivers.
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/141/1 is a guide to clocking up the graphic card, read it carefully before doing anything there.
Heh, I just built a system for my fiancee and used those same parts, well that mobo+c2d at least, put a 8800gt 512 in it instead for video, costs about 50 bucks more but outperforms the 9600gt. That c2d 7200 is a nice affordable processor, the fact that it runs on the new 45nm core and utilizes the 1066 bus is a nice bonus as well.
If the stuttering only seems to happen traveling around and the first time your traveling in that area it's likely a hard drive slow down trying to load up the textures into your system ram. If it happens even if you've been in that zone area awhile for that particular game session it's some kind of system slowdown video card or cpu I'd assume since you seem to have enough ram and mostly likely video card.
http://www.tweakforce.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=1