Heavy stuttering with 9600GSO(96sp)

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Greg121986

Discussion Starter · Mar 13, 2009

I have a 9600GSO(96sp) in my parent's PC. I have never gamed on it before, but I just installed Steam and tried out L4D at 1680x1050. I was only running 2xAA and Triliniear AF and High settings for most everything. It kept getting stuck and stuttering for a few seconds as the audio continued to play. Then it would catch itself, play a few seconds of frames, and then start to stall again as if the system had frozen. All the while I was getting 60+FPS according to FRAPS. What is the problem here? Could it be the video memory?

The card was initially a folding card. I bought it from OCN member Whodie. He reflashed the BIOS to 100% fan speed, and 1800 shader clock. I put the fan and core/shader speed back down to 550 core where it should be, and I still get the stuttering problem. The memory is at the stock setting of 900MHz.

The rest of the system specs:
XP 32 Pro
Gigabyte EP45-DS3L
E8400 E0 3.0Ghz
2x2GB G Skill DDR2 1066
640GB WD hdd
Corsair 400W PSU
22" monitor at 1680x1050
EVGA dual slot 9600GSO(96sp) 384MB

If the video card is the problem I may sell it to an OCN folder and find an 8800GT or 9800GT.

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sLowEnd

· #2 · Mar 13, 2009

Have you ruled out your CPU by lowering clocks a bit? It could be unstable.

Sacre

· #3 · Mar 13, 2009

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Turn odf multicore in settings. Common problem.

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Have you ruled out your CPU by lowering clocks a bit? It could be unstable.

3.0GHz is stock for E8400...

EDIT:
Waiting for the PC in my sig, but I'm playing L4D on a AMD 2.6GHz (dual core) with a 9600GSO (DDR2 version, no less) and L4D runs at 40FPS minimum. My good ol' E8400 + 8800 Ultra rig died.

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Greg121986

Discussion Starter · #4 · Mar 13, 2009

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Turn of multicore in settings. Common problem.

3.0GHz is stock for E8400...

What does multicore mean? I thought that would make it utilize the dual core?

I am downloading TF2 right now to try again and see if I have any problems. I will report back in a few minutes. It should be done very soon, downloading at 1.4MB/sec!

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Sacre

· #5 · Mar 13, 2009

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What does multicore mean? I thought that would make it utilize the dual core?

I am downloading TF2 right now to try again and see if I have any problems. I will report back in a few minutes. It should be done very soon, downloading at 1.4MB/sec!

It's Multicore Rendering, and it's buggy on dual core processors. Disable it and you'll be fine, the game will run on on 2.0GHz single core or less beautifully. It's Source engine, not Crysis.

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accskyman

· #6 · Mar 13, 2009

I updated to some beta drivers and the multicore enabled stuttering was gone for me. Lemme look it up...

Edit: 182.05 drivers.

BlackOmega

· #7 · Mar 13, 2009

Why did he reflash the BIOS? You can manually set the fan/shader/clock/mem speeds through programs like Evga's Precision. Download that and make sure your shader clock is stock, which I believe is 1600. Ive noticed the shader clock cant take much of an overclock with my GSOs' (I have 2 768mb GDDR3 versions). Try setting it all back to stock and use precision to set the fan speed. 9600 GSOs' run fairly cool, there is no need for them to run @ 100%. The most Ive ever had mine turned up was to 70% and while folding @ 100% load, they NEVER got above ~65*C. And that was only when the ambient temp was almost 25*C.

Greg121986

Discussion Starter · #8 · Mar 13, 2009

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Why did he reflash the BIOS? You can manually set the fan/shader/clock/mem speeds through programs like Evga's Precision. Download that and make sure your shader clock is stock, which I believe is 1600. Ive noticed the shader clock cant take much of an overclock with my GSOs' (I have 2 768mb GDDR3 versions). Try setting it all back to stock and use precision to set the fan speed. 9600 GSOs' run fairly cool, there is no need for them to run @ 100%. The most Ive ever had mine turned up was to 70% and while folding @ 100% load, they NEVER got above ~65*C. And that was only when the ambient temp was almost 25*C.

He flashed the BIOS because it was a folding card and served no other purpose.

I have Rivatuner set to adjust the clocks down to stock at Windows startup. I was going to flash to the original BIOS, but I have never done that before and I was not up to the challenge.

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blupupher

· #9 · Mar 13, 2009

Stock for a 384 mb GSO is 550/1375/800.
Turn of AA and see if it still does it.

BlackOmega

· #10 · Mar 13, 2009

Ok I just looked and stock clocks for my cards are 550/800/1375. Its not 1600 like I thought. SO you might want to lower the settings just a little bit more.

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Greg121986

Discussion Starter · #11 · Mar 13, 2009

Disabling multi core rendering fixed it! Thanks for the help. The GPU clocks are just fine, I am very happy with this card! 60-100FPS on L4D.

Sacre

· #12 · Mar 13, 2009

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Disabling multi core rendering fixed it! Thanks for the help. The GPU clocks are just fine, I am very happy with this card! 60-100FPS on L4D.

Even a 9600GSO slaughters L4D.

Enjoy!

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BlackOmega

· #13 · Mar 14, 2009

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Even a 9600GSO slaughters L4D.

Enjoy!

GSOs' are highly underrated cards. With 1 of mine, crysis benchmarked @ 25.21 fps with everything set to high(DX9), 0xAA, 1680x1050. All in all not bad for a $100 card.

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TheSandman

· #14 · Mar 14, 2009

yea i agree they are great cards, I had the original XFX 8800GS 680M great card with a VF-700 on it, a little volt mod, and boom you can go to near 800mhz core, hit the shaders @ 2000mhz and the ram on mine stock was 1600mhz but got it to 1900mhz and was beating OC'd 9600GT's with it. The issue with the 8800GS/9600GSO (G92) isnt the core, its the 192bit bus, overclock the ram to get bandwith up and you will see FPS skyrocket with it as the core becomes less choked. Its like the Geforce2 all over again, plenty of power needs more bandwith.

CorporalAris

· #15 · Mar 14, 2009

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GSOs' are highly underrated cards. With 1 of mine, crysis benchmarked @ 25.21 fps with everything set to high(DX9), 0xAA, 1680x1050. All in all not bad for a $100 card.

I got two for 65 bucks each. Good deal. I'm getting better coolers, then volt modding comes along. Sorry about stealing thread, why was Multicore rendering doing that? It doesn't on mine...

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