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Skipping...Hiccup thing

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I notice sometimes when I play games, such as the new Painkiller demo for instance, I get this sort of skip type thing. Hard to explain...kind of like a hiccup. It sort of freezes for a split second...barely noticeable...not like a total freeze. It happens when there's a lot of stuff on screen or a big explosion...stuff like that. What could be causing that? My main drive is a 120 Gg Maxtor 8Mb cache btw. My guess is it's processor or hard drive related somehow. I have no other instability issues...I've scanned for viruses...run ad-aware and spybot. My drive has been defragged recently also. I know a lot of new games like Painkiller are pretty system taxing, so it may just be normal, but I thought I'd ask to see if anyone had any ideas jic. TIA.
 
Do you have DMA enabled?

Try changing some game settings and updating drivers.
 
If you're running with vsync enabled, try disabling it.

With vsync enabled, if your video card can't produce enough frames to match your monitor's refresh rate, the card will cut the maximum framerate in half (ex: 60hz refresh rate drops down to 30 fps). Once it can produce enough fps, it will revert back to normal. When this speed change happens, you'll see a very short pause. It's more noticable in some games than others.
 
Thx for the ideas...DMA is enabled and I have all the newest drivers for everything. Vsync is disabled as well. What about paging file? Right now I have it set to 767 Mb for each drive which equals 1534 Mb total, which is what Windows recommends I have. I don't really know if that's too much or what, esp since I have a Gb of ram...
 
are you or your computer the one getting the "hiccups"?


It happens when there's a lot of stuff on screen or a big explosion...stuff like that.
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video processor?
 
from the symptoms your talking about it sounds like your just running out of memory and it's uysing the page file. But I don't see how you could be using more then 1GB of system memory unless your running a bunch of stuff in the background too.
 
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