Daoc and ATI

[Arcee]

I have an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro and ever since buying the card ive had a strange problem After playing daoc, any other game i run after that i get a noticable stutter every second. The worst are racing games, I can be playing daoc, quit and play Colin McRae 4 - and the stuttering is really bad. Every second there is a stutter, like it is skipping a few frames. IVe tried all Cat version from 3.6 to the latest 4.4 and it still happens.

Why is daoc causing other games to stutter? Anyone else have this problem?

Cheers

 

[CjkaceBM]

TBH I've found the problem in reverse. If I do any memory intensive task with my PC (mpeg encoding etc) and then load up DAoC (after everything is finished obviously), I get a stutter every 4 or 5 seconds. The only cure I have found is to re-boot between sessions. Whether this is a DAoC, Win XP or Direct X issue, I've yet to discover.

 

[Daedalus]

How much RAM do you guys have, what OS, and what's the Pagefile set to?
Also, you could try and get Cacheman and clean the memory after playing a game.

 

[Honza]

I have nVidia GeForce FX5900 128MB, 512MB Dual DDR RAM and Intel P4 2,4GHz HT CPU. I never met such a trouble... Lately due to lack of time I mostly have some video compressor running in background (mostly MPEG2->XVid, highest avail quality)... Both works fine, DAoC doesn't have any lags or frame drops. Just to note, this computer has not been restarted neither turned off since Christmas.
Of course HT does here majority of the job, but I still think that ATI is not the best solution for pple who wish to run applications without troubles. In this case, I suspect Catalyst drivers to be origin of the trouble, not the hardware card itself.

 

[plomien]

sounds like your memory isn't clearing after playing in both accounts. i use a radeon 9800 have free ram xp running (found here http://download.com.com/3120-20-0.html?qt=FreeRAM+XP+YourWare+Solutions&tg=dl-2001 ).
I have also posted about some other programs called hare, anticrash and zoom which help no end:

http://www.dachshundsoftware.com/index.html

i run anticrash, hare and zoom and it makes thing run nicely. the programs also sort out your registry and the drivers (so they run on a need only basis so you have more system resources).

there are plenty of places to find "copies of the full version" on the net as the trial only runs for 20 trys.

(btw don't bother with battery doubler (unless you have a laptop) and juggle mouse)

also a lil tip don't have anticrash enabled when running DAoC it keeps trying to fix it and fails. there is an option to disable it

remember serials 2000 are your friend http://www.serialz.to/s2kupdates.html

 

[Messiah]

Gfx problems as well

I have a 9800 XT and get problems as well can load 2 accounts up fine but when i go to open a web page the whole pc restarts really starting to piss me off, it was fine before toa came out i had no problems with 2 SI accounts, but toa really messed my pc up if i try to load up a web site anyone know how to solve this? becuase seems annoying getting best gfx out there and crashes it works fine in all other games just daoc.

I have a p4 3gh and 1gh memory so i know it not the memory that the problems

 

[Honza]

Maybe that gfx is not so best at all . Benchmarking does not show how that certain product really works. I think ATI made pretty crappy drivers...

 

[Arcee]

Itss nothign to do with system memory. Its how daoc effects my other games after playing daoc with 1 or 2 accounts on the same PC.

Its defo something to do with the Radeon / Drivers - and the effect of daoc after it has been closed down. Some games you wouldnt notice it, but games that scrolls - ie, Pro Evo 3, any racing game, FPS games - you can really see it. Only way i know of gettign rid of this small stutter every second is to reboot. Very annoying.

 

[CjkaceBM]

I would also say its an ATI issue, maybe not emptying the graphics buffer. I have an All In Wonder so use hardware MPEG 2 encoding. I can rip and recode 50 MP3s and boot DAoC afterwards with no problem, just when I do anything with the graphics there is a slight problem.

 

[Chimaira]

ATI 9700 Pro here

works perfect

Ive heard 9800 has issues tho