Help! My 64-bit System Still Stuttering

[vilhiem]

Not sure what the problem is, ... but ever since I built my new 64-bit rig in February (w/Vista Ultimate) it has never been "snappy." As an example, I just put a DVD movie I recently recorded and went to play it in WMP and the playback was stuttering.
Also get graphical problems playing Battlefield 2 in which the frame rate drops on occasion to an unplayable state.

Is it that I am only using 2gb of memory (should I increase it to 4gb)?

Thanks!!!


Here are the rest of my specs:

Processor AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+
Memory (RAM) 2.00 GB
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS
Gaming graphics 1407 MB Total available graphics memory
Primary hard disk 8GB Free (69GB Total)
Windows Vista (TM) Ultimate

System
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Manufacturer System manufacturer
Model System Product Name
Total amount of system memory 2.00 GB RAM
System type 64-bit operating system
Number of processor cores 2

Storage
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Total size of hard disk(s) 216 GB
Disk partition (C 8 GB Free (69 GB Total)
Media drive (D CD/DVD
Media drive (E CD/DVDCD
Disk partition (F 9 GB Free (112 GB Total)
Disk partition (G 4 GB Free (34 GB Total)

Graphics
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Display adapter type NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS
Total available graphics memory 1407 MB
Dedicated graphics memory 640 MB
Dedicated system memory 0 MB
Shared system memory 767 MB
Display adapter driver version 7.15.11.6369
Primary monitor resolution 1920x1200
DirectX version DirectX 9.0 or better

Network
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Network Adapter NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller
Network Adapter Microsoft Tun Miniport Adapter

 

[thrawn86]

watching your task manager (sorted by cpu usage) doesn't yield any clues? you mentioned BF2, is it only unplayable every so often, or do you consistently get unplayable frames?

ie: my rig was freezing intermittently a while back, and by leaving task manager open on my 2nd monitor and watching what happened during hangs I was able to see that my browser was spiking to 100% usage on java heavy sites.

 

[vilhiem]

Thanks for the idea, but I tried that and found nothing too noteworthy.

Any other ideas why my AthlonX2 is not running so smoothly??

 

[Zorachus]

Vilhiem is my cool big Brother

Anyways my other Brother and myself helped him put his system together, and it is just very strange the way it operates. I built myself a similar setup around the same it had a AthlonFX-60, 2gb DDR400, 150gb RaptorX, and 8800GTX, and it ran Vista64 very smooth, and the games I did have installed like WoW, HalfLife2, QuakeWars, etc... all ran very nice. And the overall system felt pretty fast.

But my brothers system never felt like that even though our parts were close to the same. Only big difference I had was the 150gb RaptorX only drive I had in system, he has the 74gb Raptors and several other hard drives connected, he uses a cordless mouse which to me makes his system feel slower or jerky never liked those cordless mice, also he runs a Creative X-Fi sound card I don't like their drivers I have a Razer Barracuda AC-1

Just not sure why his system operated so different than mine ??