BF2S Forums Frustrating problem with my PC

Does it concern internet connected programs or all programs ?

If it only relates to netbased games and such call your provider.

check this out. BTW this goes in tech...
http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?id=22556

yeah i'd by a new computer with a fish tank installed in it so im never bored

=TH=[Eleanor]-NL- wrote:

Hi. I have a very anoying problem. It is like this: whatever I do, play BF2, play an older game, even watching a movie, causes a strange thing. Every 5 seconds there's a "bumb" of like 1/4 second. You can imagine this is very anoying: in Battlefield 2 I can't play for 100% because if I see an enemy and want to shoot, than whoop, there comes the bumb. Even when watching movies this is the problem, I don't know what to do about it anymore.


Thanks if you can help me out!

Get 1 more gig of ram or even 512mb and it'll run smoother, trust me i was in the same position

Doesn`t sound like a ram problem, could be a backround program that should be turned off - for ever !

i do appolagies, but what do you mean by a "bumb" ?

Homeschtar, thanks, I will try that first thing in the morning, hope it saves me from re-installing windows.

theDude5B, with "bumb" I mean, that, well, I don't really know how to call it in English. It's just that every 5 seconds the screen, ehm, "freezes" for like 1/4th of a second. And than it goes back to normal for 5 seconds, after which it will freeze again. Very anoying when playing a game, can't hit a thing; and even watching a movie becomes hard (and that is hard for a 24 addict ;-))

Couple things to try: Reinstall video card, disconnect CD ROM inside computer and try playing videos, watch performance monitor while it's happening to see if your CPU is being maxed out....just a couple ideas.

=TH=[Eleanor]-NL- wrote:

Hi. I have a very anoying problem. It is like this: whatever I do, play BF2, play an older game, even watching a movie, causes a strange thing. Every 5 seconds there's a "bumb" of like 1/4 second. You can imagine this is very anoying: in Battlefield 2 I can't play for 100% because if I see an enemy and want to shoot, than whoop, there comes the bumb. Even when watching movies this is the problem, I don't know what to do about it anymore.

I have tried lot's of things; defragmentation, virus-, ad-scans, switching of number of programs as firewall, virusscanner, MSN and stuff. I even cleaned my computer inside, removed the dust from the cooling fans, noting seems to have any effect .

I myself see just one solution: re-install Windows. But this costs much time and I have done this like 2 months ago already.

Has anyone of you got an idea for what I can do about it? Or has anyone got similar problems?


Sidenote, my system is the following:

AMD2800+
ATi Radeon 9700Pro
160 GB Hardisk (Maxtor, WD, whatever), SATA
2x 512 MB DDR (PC3200?)
Motherboard: ASUS A7N8X De-Luxe.


Thanks if you can help me out!

no way dude that is exactly the same set up as i used to have to play bf2. i know sorry thats not much help let me start again.

what i have got into a habit of doing is restarting my pc everytime i want to play bf2. plus if you shut down anything that you do not want running it should help. but like i said, try restarting every time you want to play, annoying i know but it does help.

best of luck

|DL| DavidianCox

Thanks again to all for your input over here. You guys mentioned some things I definatelly will try out. I have just installed those XG WarCat 6.3 drivers, instead of the official Catalyst 6.4. Maybe this makes a diffence, will know after system restart.

DavidianCox, I would be glad if a simple restart would work, but unfortutatelly it does not. If I start up my computer, and the FIRST thing I do with it as it has started up, is watching a movie, it's again bumpy every 5 seconds. I just found out this bumb is also here when I see a moving .gif file AND EVEN WHEN TYPING THIS MESSAGE I CAN NOTICE IT . When I than switch off the whole bunch of fire-wall, virusscanner, MSN and all that, it makes no difference at all, it still has the same problem.

Therefor I will try out that Hijack This, if that doesn't work, will try follow King_County_Downy's advise.

joker3327 yeah I use on-board sound. It's called nVidia Soundstorm if I'm right. Haven't changed anything with this lately... How do you think this can affect the problem though?


As for now, will restart and than run Hijack This, hope this'll work!!!


BTW as soon as my karma points are released again I will +1 every each of you ;-).

Torro dankje, maar helaas is het niet helemaal zo. Het is niet dat ie weer achteruit springt, als met lag. Het i meer iets als een lage framerate. Daarmee bedoel ik dat het spel 5 seconden soepel draait, en dan een kwart seconde hapert, en daarna weer vooruit spoelt met 1/4 seconde. Dat beeld wat dus mist in die kwart seconde krijg ik niet te zien. Bijvoorbeeld, ik draai heel snel naar links, op dat moment hapert ie, en daarna schiet ie opeens weer een kwart slag naar links, waardoor ik dus een deel heb gemist... Damn moeilijk uit te leggen... Maar goed het is dus niet alleen met BF2, ook met films, zelfs met .gif bestanden...

I'll translate this in a minute...


So, for those of you who want to understand what was that all about: *ToRRo*cT| told me it may have been my internet connection. He suffered with a kind of lag once, in which he played a game, for example running up a staircase, being halfway, and than suddenly stand at the bottom of the stairs again. Unfortunatelly, that's not the same problem as I have.

I think you can compare mine with a problem in the framerate. For 5 seconds it is all perfect, but after 5 seconds I get a bumb in the framerate for like a quarter of a second, after which I get no problems for 5 seconds, than it repeats itself.

So far I haven't found anything with Hijack This .

I now see in the task manager, that in every block is one pike. Not too big, let's say it's one block from the 5 high. But it's there, no matter what I do. My guess is that is the problem. Now all I need to do is find out what's causing it...

And I see that also every 5-6 seconds the CPU-usage rises to 19-20% for a moment. Unfortunatelly there is not a program that says it's using 19-20% of the CPU that moment...       Wait, there IS a program that uses 19-20% of the CPU those times, but, it's called "System.exe". Now what can this mean? Looks to me that that's a task which is running on all computers am I right? What will happen if I end that task? Is is needed to keep Windows running? BTW this task has "SYSTEM" as username, and has a constant memory usage of 224 KB.

Last edited by =TH=[Eleanor]-NL- (2006-05-03 03:50:52)

Weer bedankt. Ik zal zometeen dat System.exe eens uitzetten, en ff googlen, heb ik ook nog niet gedaan. Als dat allemaal niet uitmaakt dan moet ik inderdaad maar een image terug zetten of zelfs Windows helemaal opnieuw installeren.

Hier heb je in ieder geval helemaal gelijk in:
1) Nog even alles nagaan qua Drivers software , ik zou niet langer dan een dag ermee blijven rotzooien want anders word je helemaal knettergek. tongue


lol


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