Why the staggering in HL2?

[Ricko]

6800 GT...latest drivers. amd 3200....1 gig ram.....What gives. This game is stuttering bad...any ideas out there? Thanks.

 

[DusterAZ]

Game is super smooth on my system. Which specific driver are you using? I am on the beta 67.03.

 

[Xrave]

Also describe the stuttering.

 

[jason93]

Check out the steam forums Here

 

[Woblin_Goblin]

Spyware or a virus? Try Lavasoft Adaware or Spybot Search and Destroy. Is there a ton of hard drive activity (noise, light blinking like crazy)? Maybe try defragmenting your hard drive. Use a trial version of PerfectDisk 7. As far as defraggers go, it's great!

 

[SystemERRor]

Also with the spyware idea, Microsoft Anti Spyware beta is surprisingly good. Picks up stuff that adaware and spybot missed..... (Personally I use adware, spybot, spyware blaster, norton AV(Which can find spyware), Zone alarm and this new microsoft beta)


But the stuttering is a prob w/ HL2, still not fixed for all, though they have tried.

http://www.blep.net/hl2stutter/#28

 

[V0ltage]

HL2 stuttered real bad when I had 512MB of ram, when I upgraded to 1GB the stuttering completely stopped. Sounds like you have lots of programs running in the background. Run ad-aware se, spyboy, and use startup CPL to get rid of all the stuff running in the background.

 

[Woblin_Goblin]

I forgot to mention, after valve patched HL2 the stuttering seemed to happen quite a bit less for me. And I only have 512MB ram. Now it usually only happens when I quick save.