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Game Forum / Action Games / Half Life / September 2006halflife 2 cs source dod source nice games shame about the sound
purchased the premium package yesterday, basically the games are unplayable,the sound stammers for about 5 seconds every few minutes. its like the graphics are waiting for the sound to catch up. my PC amd 64 3500 1 gig kingston ram 400mhz 250 gig seatgate sata geforce 6600GT 128mb on board ac97 sound. never experienced this sort of problem before, all my drivers etc are up to date,no virus`s etc. Can i get a refund on this package? as it plainly does not work. All other games are ok battlefield etc. i have tried running halflife2 etc,at minuim level,no filtering etc,sound settings low,changed hardware level to basic for the sound card in dxdiag. nothing seems to solve this problem. > purchased the premium package yesterday, > basically the games are unplayable,the sound [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > never experienced this sort of problem before, > all my drivers etc are up to date,no virus`s etc. I have some stuttering in HL2 during load Nothing in online games (CS, DOD etc) Upgrading to 2Gb mem should remove the stuttering Also check space on HD and size of swap file > Can i get a refund on this package? as it plainly does > not work. Ask the shop - Peter  SignatureProud owner off: 5 "I spent several gruelling hours on the internet with a cup of bovril for the sake of AGHL" points Hi! I'm a .signature *virus*! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! > Upgrading to 2Gb mem should remove the stuttering > Also check space on HD and size of swap file Hold your horses, Peter; that shouldn't be necessary, surely? I have 1GB RAM and have had no such problems. Throwing hardware at it is not the solution. You may have something regarding the HDD/swap file, though. Muggins, did your AC97 onboard sound come with one of those Sound Manager utilities? My MSI board came with one and it has caused several problems in the past. Dreadful thing; I daren't even open it to check what settings might have affected your sound, as it inevitably screws something up. If you have one, either disable it or restore all effects, equalisers and volume controls to nice neutral values. Do you have any other software running while you play? Virus checkers, for instance? Other than that, don't know what to suggest. Have you considered more RAM? ;) -- Paul > Hold your horses, Peter; that shouldn't be necessary, surely? Sound stuttering has been reported as vanished if the rig is upgraded to hold 2Gb mem Stuttering occurs when scenes is not loaded fast enough due to swapping and HD trashing By swapping I am referring to Valves cache systems (GFC's loaded in mem) - Peter > Sound stuttering has been reported as vanished if the rig is upgraded to hold > 2Gb mem [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > By swapping I am referring to Valves cache systems (GFC's loaded in mem) Didn't know that. Doesn't happen to me, at least not with the regularity that Muggins is talking about. Maybe the occasional loading incident, but not enough that I've ever really noticed, and my PC isn't as good as Muggins'. I think I did get that kind of trouble in Lost Coast, though, now you mention it (amongst other crashworthy events). Suspect you are right about him possibly having insufficient HD space (I don't get thrashing either). Aren't DoD/CS maps all loaded at once? I still wonder whether he is clearing out enough memory by shutting down other programs. -- Paul >>Hold your horses, Peter; that shouldn't be necessary, surely? > > Sound stuttering has been reported as vanished if the rig is upgraded to > hold 2Gb mem Hmm, i'm not sure about that, my old rig had no stuttering and only had 1GB.. HL2 really shouldn't need any more than that IMO :) > Stuttering occurs when scenes is not loaded fast enough due to swapping and > HD trashing Not always, I seem to recall (When HL2 was first released) some people their RAM from 512MB to 1GB with zero improvement on the stuttering front. > By swapping I am referring to Valves cache systems (GFC's loaded in mem) actually I think the HD used to be fairly 'idle' when stuttering occurred on mine - alot of people who had stuttering problems were using bad gfx drivers.. I seem to remember solving my issues by downgrading my 9800pro drivers to ones which were a few months older. SignatureBen Cottrell AKA Bench >> Stuttering occurs when scenes is not loaded fast enough due to >> swapping and HD trashing > > Not always, When we have stuttering the HD is working like a maniac otherwise the game is fine - Peter >>> Stuttering occurs when scenes is not loaded fast enough due to >>> swapping and HD trashing [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > >- Peter thanks for the input guys, I have now moved hl2 etc to a different drive,an 80gig seatgate sata hl2 dod cs/source is all that resides on that drive nothing else,my main 250 gig drive has 180 gig free,i have disabled windows indexing on both drives.I have uninstalled the sound card drivers to clean out any slight adjustments i have made and reinstalled them,also taking the care to remove all register entries.At this point cs source seems ok a slight stutter now and then,hl2 the same,but DOD source is still really bad,specially when the end music kicks in at the end of a round.I have everything at basic level.Maybe it just does not like onboard sound or the onboard sound is a system hog? But then again battlefield plays fine as does UT2004. Bloody weird. > I have uninstalled the sound card drivers to clean out > any slight adjustments i have made and reinstalled them,also taking > the care to remove all register entries.At this point cs source seems > ok a slight stutter now and then,hl2 the same,but DOD source is still > really bad,specially when the end music kicks in at the end of a > round. Pretty weird We have to P4 rigs with onboard sound (P4 2.6, 1Gb mem etc) DOD plays sweet as a dream, except during map changes/loading where we have stuttering probably due to HD trashing as mentioned in my earlier reply I have asked the kids :) the source engine relies on directx (graphics + sound) We have had major problems on one of the PC's until I did a complete reinstall (CS:S could not start - crashed to the desktop) - Peter Try right-clicking Half-Life 2 in the Steam menu, going to launch options, and entering the following within: -heapsize 524288 I know this is a very old post and probably no one from the original thread is going to get, but this newsgroup is good about being in Google, so I am posting my reply anway. 1gig ram is plent, and that will not be the problem, especially when the original poster has pretty much done everything that even Steam says to do to fix the problem. I have the stutering to. It comes and goes, and I did everything the OP did and even played with lowering the dx levels (-dxlevel 80) in launch properties of the games. You very well could have a driver conflict somewhere, which is a common problem in new comps and video cards and XP. But there is one more think you should try, even though I know you won't like it. Lower your FPS. Go into console and type this: fps_max It should show you the current setting. Depending on the game, it could be set as high 500 or even above. I had a stutering problem in TFC and fpsmax was set for 72. I changed it to 50 and the game and sound ran much better. The sound stutering went away. There is also a snd_mixahead setting you can play with, but I have never heard anyone say they had success with that. Default setting is 0.1, so change it to a higher number in console like snd_mixahead 0.2 or 0.3. If you have to go higher than that though, you are wasting your time. Hope that helps. |
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