dan_plus_o
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Hey guys I am experiencing a weird problem is some games.
For example: On Battlefield Bad Company 2 the FPS shows an average of 40-50 on high but the gameplay feels so lagging and choppy. I turn the settings down to LOW and I get 60-70 FPS but it still feels laggy and even occasionally freezes for like 1-2 seconds. When the game starts to feel really laggy I look up at the FPS and it still shows 40-50 but it feels like its at 10-20. This really only happens when I am moving around. If I stay in one spot I can spin my character around and around and it runs perfectly smooth. The first single player mission where you ride around in the jeep was absolutely horrible and had a bunch of 1-2 second pauses even on low settings and with an average FPS of 60.
On Counter Strike Source I get tons of FPS (100+) but at certain times it stutters and occasionally even freezes for 1-2 seconds. For example, when the terrorist bomb goes off it will occasionally freeze for 1-2 seconds. When I turn on my flashlight it will have a slight stutter but after the first time I turn the flashlight on it will not stutter from turning it on again. If I wait a really long time without turning it on and then turn it on again it will stutter again.
So, to me this definitely seems like a loading issue. Possibly my system memory, video card memory, or HDD?? What do you guys think?
I have Windows XP on a single 750GB Seagate and it runs much better. With my Windows 7 install on two 1TB WD Caviar Blacks in RAID0 (short stroked to like 300GB) it runs like crap. I even forced Bad company 2 to run in DX9 to make sure it wasn't DX11 that was the problem.
One thing I noticed with my RAID0 setup is, with HD Tune it shows an access time of 15.0 ms. I found a HD tune benchmark for a single Caviar Black and it showed access time of 12.0 ms. I assume when in game you would want the fastest access time over high speed transfer rate. Could it be my RAID0 setup that is the problem since that is the main difference between my W7 install and XP install.
For example: On Battlefield Bad Company 2 the FPS shows an average of 40-50 on high but the gameplay feels so lagging and choppy. I turn the settings down to LOW and I get 60-70 FPS but it still feels laggy and even occasionally freezes for like 1-2 seconds. When the game starts to feel really laggy I look up at the FPS and it still shows 40-50 but it feels like its at 10-20. This really only happens when I am moving around. If I stay in one spot I can spin my character around and around and it runs perfectly smooth. The first single player mission where you ride around in the jeep was absolutely horrible and had a bunch of 1-2 second pauses even on low settings and with an average FPS of 60.
On Counter Strike Source I get tons of FPS (100+) but at certain times it stutters and occasionally even freezes for 1-2 seconds. For example, when the terrorist bomb goes off it will occasionally freeze for 1-2 seconds. When I turn on my flashlight it will have a slight stutter but after the first time I turn the flashlight on it will not stutter from turning it on again. If I wait a really long time without turning it on and then turn it on again it will stutter again.
So, to me this definitely seems like a loading issue. Possibly my system memory, video card memory, or HDD?? What do you guys think?
I have Windows XP on a single 750GB Seagate and it runs much better. With my Windows 7 install on two 1TB WD Caviar Blacks in RAID0 (short stroked to like 300GB) it runs like crap. I even forced Bad company 2 to run in DX9 to make sure it wasn't DX11 that was the problem.
One thing I noticed with my RAID0 setup is, with HD Tune it shows an access time of 15.0 ms. I found a HD tune benchmark for a single Caviar Black and it showed access time of 12.0 ms. I assume when in game you would want the fastest access time over high speed transfer rate. Could it be my RAID0 setup that is the problem since that is the main difference between my W7 install and XP install.