Am I crazy?

[DemonOne]

Hello guys,

I just got a new PC (Ph2 940, 4870 1GB) and installed Vista 64 on it.
Now, I seem to have the same problem I had on my old Athlon 3500+ GF7600gs (win xp, though).
Halo has this little hick ups even on >240fps, for 0.5 secs it'll jitter.

Has anyone here ever witnessed this phenomena in Halo?

[itszutak]

How much ram do you have?

[DemonOne]

4GB ofcourse.

I wonder if it's my old 19" flatron CRT monitor.

[itszutak]

All I can think of is that there's something going on in the background. I'll run CE (I'm using vistax64 too) and see if I experience anything similar.

[DemonOne]

The weird part is that I got the same effect on a 2 years old PC running XP...

It's either I can detect FPS change really easily, or I don't know...

[flibitijibibo]

Try vsync. For some reason that works for me.

[sdavis117]

Yeah, 240FPS can cause issues, try using the vsync, or even forcing 30fps if you need to.

[DemonOne]

I'm not sure it does the trick...
If I press CTRL+F12 I can see those little negative FPS spikes, like I did 2 years ago on a different machine... I swear I think the only time I didn't experience this was on my old GF4200 from 2003, of course it could only do 25 FPS.

I seem to look for those little hick ups at every game I play, and I usually find those.
Most people would just claim they never experienced such a thing.

Finished installing FC2, let's see how it performs.

[sdavis117]

Post full computer specs, anti-virus scanners, and driver versions for all your PC parts.

[DemonOne]

CPU: Phenom 2 940 (3.0GHz quad core)
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4
GPU: Sapphire Radeon HD4870 1GB Toxic
RAM: A-DATA 4GB CL5
HDD: Samsung 500GB 16MB buffer Sata 2
PSU: Enermax Pro82+ 625W

(More than enough for our old Halo...)

My OS is Vista 64, installed today with the lateset AMD and ATI drivers plus COMODO firewall and some Gigabyte apps.

[NT Studios]

Are you using a RAM Cleaner? This happens on my computer also with 1GB RAM when I am using a RAM Cleaner.

[InnerGoat]

What Gigabyte apps? Sometimes those temperature monitors can cause stutter when they poll the sensors...

[DemonOne]

I closed all the monitoring software (had the same problem on my last giga-byte mobo), but it isn't the issue.

I am cursed.

This is like a bad re-run, the same damn problem on a different machine, with different OS! a machine that is insanely faster!

The last component that was shared between the systems is my old CRT monitor, it's hard to believe it can cause that, but I will try to hook a shitty LCD monitor I have and see what happens.
That will only happen in a few hours though.

[Bastinka]

I have this problem too, thats why I quit playing halo.

It never ran smoothly, always seemed like my graphics card was trying to go faster then the game or something to that extent. I really disliked it as little things such as that really bother me.

[DemonOne]

The same thing happens to me on CoD5, FC2, UT3...

UT3 ran fine on my older system... it may be some kind of FPS and monitor problem or something...

Come to think of it, L4D went up from L4D to 200 on my new PC, and shit started happening...

@SilentWindPL:
I also had slow-mo grenades a few times two years back.
Halo seem to run fine on my old 2003 PC (dead now) when the frame rate was only 25fps.
(I think we talked on that diesel ts server way back on 2004-05, when you voice hadn't change yet).

[sdavis117]

Maybe it's your OS. Try getting someone to get you XP, create a partition, and use dual boot, then test Halo PC on the XP partition.

[beele]

Try turning of decals in your halo settings, worked for me ;)
When they where on they made the fps drop and gave me periodical stutters.

[DemonOne]

This problem extends beyond Halo, and requires deep investigation...

Gonna have to make some phone calls tomorrow.

[DemonOne]

Hmm... a combination of disabling Cool'n'Quiet and disabling vsync in CCC may have solved the issue with other games (I just ran crysis demo on very high)

But Halo PC keeps being a bitch, why is it driving a warthog feels so dizzy?

[supersniper]

post a video of what happens... and also I recommend you download belarc advisor and post the report.

[NullZero]

625W PSU? Idk, but if I made that spec, I'd be sure to get a higher watt PSU of same quality.

[DemonOne]

It can push 50A on the 12V rail, and is crossfire certified for 2 4870 cards.