Stuttering Issue on a good system

[polishedcar]

My specs:

Q6600, default clock
2x 8800 GT SLI
4 GBs of DDR2 800 RAM at default timings 5-5-5-15
X-Fi
Windows Vista 64 bit


On bigger things like vehicle CTF and warface with about 11-15 bots every once in a while it stutters for 1-3 seconds. Not too often, but it's annoying when it happens and I don't think it should with my system.

Help please.

edit: oh yeah, my driver version is 169.25

[GeneralDeath3]

see my post. go install these :

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x64_169.44.html

should solve it. Im running similar rig minus an xfi

[polishedcar]

Ok. I'll try it and let you know. Thanks for the response.

[Metal_Militia]

My specs:

Q6600, default clock
2x 8800 GT SLI
4 GBs of DDR2 800 RAM at default timings 5-5-5-15
X-Fi
Windows Vista 64 bit


On bigger things like vehicle CTF and warface with about 11-15 bots every once in a while it stutters for 1-3 seconds. Not too often, but it's annoying when it happens and I don't think it should with my system.

Help please.

edit: oh yeah, my driver version is 169.25

Your CPU speed is bottlenecking the Hell out of your SLI setup, which is causing your problem. You need at least 3GHz core-speed to run SLI effectively, so OC that thing to let SLI loose. Your system isn't too far-off of mine hardware-wise (sig), so trust me when I say that a little over-clock goes a LONG way.

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And his RAM is very slow. Faster, cheap RAm is easy to get. Look for DDR 2 800 4-4-4 or much better 3-3-3 timings instead of 5-5-5. A quadcore on such bad timings like yours cannot work efficient, because of these high latencys the two cpu-dies cannot "talk" to each other fast enough. And efficient memory bandwith is also low because of this. So get faster ram. Will give you a minimum of 10% more in Ut3.

[oldkawman1]

My specs:

Q6600, default clock
2x 8800 GT SLI
4 GBs of DDR2 800 RAM at default timings 5-5-5-15
X-Fi
Windows Vista 64 bit


On bigger things like vehicle CTF and warface with about 11-15 bots every once in a while it stutters for 1-3 seconds. Not too often, but it's annoying when it happens and I don't think it should with my system.

Help please.

edit: oh yeah, my driver version is 169.25

Does this happen both online and offline? If it only happens online, your network connection is to blame. You should also check what you have running in the background. Sounds like another program is doing something. Are you monitoring cpu and memory usage?

[polishedcar]

The drivers fixed my problem, I don't get stuttering anymore and I was going to overclock and my BIOS settings are a little different than I've seen before so I was going to wait a bit before I overclock it. Also, I've never overclocked RAM before, is it possible to lower the timings?

[oldkawman1]

The drivers fixed my problem, I don't get stuttering anymore and I was going to overclock and my BIOS settings are a little different than I've seen before so I was going to wait a bit before I overclock it. Also, I've never overclocked RAM before, is it possible to lower the timings?

Just try the OC with the cpu at first, most memory will not OC at all, only really good memory will OC. The biggest bang from the OC is with the CPU. The memory OC will gain very very little for way too much work.

[Metal_Militia]

The drivers fixed my problem, I don't get stuttering anymore and I was going to overclock and my BIOS settings are a little different than I've seen before so I was going to wait a bit before I overclock it. Also, I've never overclocked RAM before, is it possible to lower the timings?

It is possible to lower RAM timings, but how far you can go varies. Like oldkawman1 said, OC the CPU first, make sure it's stable with Prime95, and then worry about memory latencies. Most decent RAM will run 4-4-4-12 @800MHz w/2.1v or so.