Choppy games

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I've noticed that my games have had a choppy effect about every 3 seconds and its very noticable and very annoying. It happens in WoW and FS2K4.(These are the only two games I've tested it in because these are the two games I play the most).

I just went to duel monitor setup. So since I thought that was it I completly unhooked one monitor and got the same results. I also tried DVI output and VGA output thinking that for some stupid reason maybe that had something to do with it, but it didn't.

I ran driver cleaner exactly how it said in the stickey. Ran it twice like it said and even rebooted into safe mode to do it two more times.

I updated to the new drivers from the Nvidia website.

I've tried knocking down graphic settings yet only had minor improvements.

Temps for both the CPU and video card are fine. I'm able to monitor them while the game is running because of dual setup so I know for sure that while in game temps are fine.

I've tried running the games with nothing in the background, yet there was still choppy.

I have tried everything I could think of before coming here. I'm all out of ideas and was wondering if you guys had any ideas on how to fix this problem. Full system specs are below. All speeds are stock by the way.

AMD 64 3400+ new castle
1 gig Kingston pc3200 RAM
BFG GeForce 7800 GSOC AGP 8x 256 meg
DFI NF3 250GB
Maxtor 120gig 7200rpm SATA hdd
and a cdrom

Please, any help would be great. I've tried everything I could think of before coming here. Thanks again.

-OEM
 
Disable your sound card in the device manager then run the game again and see if you still see the hitching.
 
A major improvement. Only seemed to be choppy when a lot of crap was going on. So I guess either I can never have sound or I need to update my sound drivers? I'm about to go see if I cant find the updated sound drivers and see if that helps. Guess I didn't try everything. Thanks.
 
i would say it could be ram.. he only has 1gb.. and i know in some instances WOW can eat up more than that...
its probaly tryin to access the pagefile.. which makes games run poorly, such as choppy. i

dont know which game FS2K4 is...
 
Flight Sim 2004

It ran pefect about a week ago with just a gig of ram. So I seriously doubt thats it. Not saying it isnt it, but when I turned off sound it was a massive improvement.
 
Well, loading the new sound drivers didnt do shit. This is aggervating the hell out of me because last week this time it wasnt doing this shit. Anyone have any other ideas that might help? Thanks in advance.
 
What sound card do you have? I have an Audigy Platinum and I took it out last night after seeing some pauses in NFSU and used the onboard nVidia sound card. BIG improvement! No choppiness at all.

Sempron 2800
Biostar nForce2 MB
1 gig Corsair Dual Channel Memory
BFG 6800GTOC 256mb AGP
 
Also if you have a dedicated SC make sure it's not sharing and IRQ in the device manager. If so you may need to move it to another PCI slot.
 
It's on board nVidia sound with the latest drivers.
 
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