Vista - Game stuttering while r/w to drive.

Got a ?While playing bf2 with aero off.I notice stuttering or lagging.
Seems too come from hdd access.I have a athlon 2.0 64,2 gigs dual channel,
and 7300gt.I know this is a new os but I was wondering if it has a new way
of reading and writing to hard drives.Xp ran great.Also night missions
are very laggy.Any ideas would be great.I dual boot xp but wolud like to
find the problem before changing over.All new drivers throughout.
Thanks.

Night missions ? You must be running the special forces pack. Those are
harder on graphics it seems, though you would think they would be easier,
being mostly dark and such.

Anyways, don't know if you have the luxury of looking down or searching this
newsgroup, but there is a thread on this already. The problem seems to be
limited to BF2 as I haven't been able to reproduce it under BF2142.

I'll cut and past my post on this, if you have a 2nd monitor and the 7300GT
lets you hook it up, you can run the test and see what you get as well.

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I'm going to have to look at your fix.I Played for about 2 1/2 hours tonight
and I hooked up a second monitor, so I could watch resource monitor on it
while I played. I wanted to see where all the disk activity was.

After watching that, I'm not sure it's completely a pagefile issue.
Every time my system would lag, it wasn't the page file getting hammered,
but
files like Common_client.zip and objects.client.zip. This would happen about
5 mins into the game and would last for 15 mins after the load of a map.

The whole time my max CPU was at 75% and max memory was 1.38GB out of 2GB.
I'm also wondering of some of the stuttering is video card related while it
loads up the textures or something. The game seems to be a tad more jerky
the first 2-3 mins of map and then smoothes out.

It was really odd that 10-15 mins into the game, I see those two zip files
getting a very high read rate on them. Not sure if that's a punkbuster check
or not. I have that folder excluded in my anti-virus, as well as I stopped
my AV while I was playing.

So I'm no longer positive more memory would help, since the pagefile access
was there, but light. It was the ZIP files that would cause my system to
chug along. Wonder what Vista is doing that XP isn't ?

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"hypnoticsnake" <hypnoticsnake@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7F6E2083-AAF3-4171-BF81-E24F598CB231@microsoft.com...
> Got a ?While playing bf2 with aero off.I notice stuttering or lagging.
> Seems too come from hdd access.I have a athlon 2.0 64,2 gigs dual channel,
> and 7300gt.I know this is a new os but I was wondering if it has a new way
> of reading and writing to hard drives.Xp ran great.Also night missions
> are very laggy.Any ideas would be great.I dual boot xp but wolud like to
> find the problem before changing over.All new drivers throughout.
> Thanks.
>

"Dale "Mad_Murdock" White" wrote:

> Night missions ? You must be running the special forces pack. Those are
> harder on graphics it seems, though you would think they would be easier,
> being mostly dark and such.
>
> Anyways, don't know if you have the luxury of looking down or searching this
> newsgroup, but there is a thread on this already. The problem seems to be
> limited to BF2 as I haven't been able to reproduce it under BF2142.
>
> I'll cut and past my post on this, if you have a 2nd monitor and the 7300GT
> lets you hook it up, you can run the test and see what you get as well.
>
> ---- Snip -----
> I'm going to have to look at your fix.I Played for about 2 1/2 hours tonight
> and I hooked up a second monitor, so I could watch resource monitor on it
> while I played. I wanted to see where all the disk activity was.
>
> After watching that, I'm not sure it's completely a pagefile issue.
> Every time my system would lag, it wasn't the page file getting hammered,
> but
> files like Common_client.zip and objects.client.zip. This would happen about
> 5 mins into the game and would last for 15 mins after the load of a map.
>
> The whole time my max CPU was at 75% and max memory was 1.38GB out of 2GB.
> I'm also wondering of some of the stuttering is video card related while it
> loads up the textures or something. The game seems to be a tad more jerky
> the first 2-3 mins of map and then smoothes out.
>
> It was really odd that 10-15 mins into the game, I see those two zip files
> getting a very high read rate on them. Not sure if that's a punkbuster check
> or not. I have that folder excluded in my anti-virus, as well as I stopped
> my AV while I was playing.
>
> So I'm no longer positive more memory would help, since the pagefile access
> was there, but light. It was the ZIP files that would cause my system to
> chug along. Wonder what Vista is doing that XP isn't ?
>
> -- Snip --
>
>
>
> "hypnoticsnake" <hypnoticsnake@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:7F6E2083-AAF3-4171-BF81-E24F598CB231@microsoft.com...
> > Got a ?While playing bf2 with aero off.I notice stuttering or lagging.
> > Seems too come from hdd access.I have a athlon 2.0 64,2 gigs dual channel,
> > and 7300gt.I know this is a new os but I was wondering if it has a new way
> > of reading and writing to hard drives.Xp ran great.Also night missions
> > are very laggy.Any ideas would be great.I dual boot xp but wolud like to
> > find the problem before changing over.All new drivers throughout.
> > Thanks.
> >
>
> Thanks for the reply Dale.Noticed that turning avast off it ran smoother.Will try
bf2sf now to see if the same affects are there.I guess the mane diff.Between
xp
and vista would be aero as far as resource usage I'm guessing.

I am experiencing similar problems with BF2142 and vista 64-bit. BF2142 runs
fine on my friend's lower end pentium 3.0 prescott w/agp card and win xp. I
have an athlon X2 5200 with higher end pci-e card and it runs better on my
friends comp than mine. i noticed stuttering or lag, sound static and
skipping.

"hypnoticsnake" wrote:

> Got a ?While playing bf2 with aero off.I notice stuttering or lagging.
> Seems too come from hdd access.I have a athlon 2.0 64,2 gigs dual channel,
> and 7300gt.I know this is a new os but I was wondering if it has a new way
> of reading and writing to hard drives.Xp ran great.Also night missions
> are very laggy.Any ideas would be great.I dual boot xp but wolud like to
> find the problem before changing over.All new drivers throughout.
> Thanks.
>

Hmm, While I did notice the problem in BF2, I have not noticed the problem
in BF2142 at all. I also need to go back and do more testing. After my
initial round of testing, I have not see the problem again. One thing I did
was turn off Superfetching. At the time, it was because I had loaded Doom3 a
bunch of times for benchmarking and so whenever I booted it would start
superfectching it, which is a waste of time.

Also, I turned off the Search indexer, to do other test. So I'm thinking one
of those might be the reason for the stuttering, Possibly the indexer.

maybe someone would like to test this, by highlighting their BF2142 folder
and telling windows not to index it. (by unchecking the Index this folder
for fast searching)

"tpmtek" <tpmtek@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4064B8D0-42A7-4856-8B97-EEEC79900D5B@microsoft.com...
>I am experiencing similar problems with BF2142 and vista 64-bit. BF2142
>runs
> fine on my friend's lower end pentium 3.0 prescott w/agp card and win xp.
> I
> have an athlon X2 5200 with higher end pci-e card and it runs better on my
> friends comp than mine. i noticed stuttering or lag, sound static and
> skipping.
>
> "hypnoticsnake" wrote:
>
>> Got a ?While playing bf2 with aero off.I notice stuttering or lagging.
>> Seems too come from hdd access.I have a athlon 2.0 64,2 gigs dual
>> channel,
>> and 7300gt.I know this is a new os but I was wondering if it has a new
>> way
>> of reading and writing to hard drives.Xp ran great.Also night missions
>> are very laggy.Any ideas would be great.I dual boot xp but wolud like to
>> find the problem before changing over.All new drivers throughout.
>> Thanks.
>>