Stuttering problems solved!

[havox]

Its been 6 mounth from jumping from setting to setting & visiting forum to another! I can finally say I solved my problem!!

the issue was with D3D only games, they stutter like a slide show! with high FPS:

solved it here look at the pic in riva tuner setting completly solved the issue & now my games are as smooth as silk including farcry!!


Sorry about that, previous hosts keep deleting the pic. I was asked this pic by a lot of people. hope this host is permanent

[zakelwe]

Originally Posted by havox

Its been 6 mounth from jumping from setting to setting & visiting forum to another! I can finally say I solved my problem!!

the issue was with D3D only games, they stutter like a slide show! with high FPS:

solved it here look at the pic in riva tuner setting completly solved the issue & now my games are as smooth as silk including farcry!!

Thanks, I'll give this a go myself as mine still stutters in Far Cry.

Regards

Andy

[myshkinbob]

This works! top find havox, thanks!

Tested with richard burn's rally and far cry, this made a world of difference. Particularly in the former, where any kind of AA or AF made it stutter l-l-l-like crazy. Now at 1600x1200 4xAA 16xAF it's butter smooth.

Also i tested for the performance loss hinted at in the help for rivatuner if you enable those two options. Absolutely no performance impact on the 6800 series. Tested with aquamark3 and 3dmark05.

Moderators, this thread deserves a sticky!

Edit: i tested with driver 66.70 by the way.

[-=DVS=-]

Wow dude your right , that bigest discovery yet , not that it suttered mutch in my case , but right now it feel exceptionaly smooth awesome job

[Lfctony]

Whatever this thing is doing its working. I was playing DoW at 1024 no AA/AF and had severe stuttering. I just set it at 1600x1200 4xAA/8xAF and the stuttering has disappeared. Very nice find.

[oozish]

hmm, I'm gonna try this too. Sounds great! Thanks.

Maybe I'll reinstall FC. I have no d3d games at the moment, heh.

I want more info on what this blitting is all about. :

[SH64]

Hmmm this seems to be working for me too!!
FarCry stuttering is much less than before now & much more playable .. actually now i can say it run stable in my GT as it do in my X800

also in CMR05 demo the stuttring is less than before .
(thats with internet connection & progs running in the background so without them it may get even better!)

stuttering is always a pain in the a$$ for me when playing games .

thanks Havox for the tip !!

[TheTaz]

Is there a way to set these things without RivaTuner?

Like a direct registry entry?

I really don't want another app in my system tray.

Thanks,

Taz

EDIT: Some info on blitting (DirectX 7 stuff.. but probably still applies):

Blitting

The term blit is shorthand for "bit block transfer," which is the process of transferring blocks of data from one place in memory to another. Graphics programmers use blitting to transfer graphics from one place in memory to another. Blits are often used to perform sprite animation, which is discussed later.

For more information on blitting in DirectDraw, see Blitting to Surfaces.

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Blitting to Surfaces

This section is a guide to copying pixels from one DirectDraw surface to another, or from one part of a surface to another.

Two methods are available for copying images to a DirectDraw surface: IDirectDrawSurface7::Blt and IDirectDrawSurface7::BltFast. (A third method, IDirectDrawSurface7::BltBatch, is not implemented in this version of DirectX.) These methods are called on the destination surface and receive the source surface as a parameter. The destination and source surfaces can be one and the same, and you don't have to worry about overlapDirectDraw takes care to preserve all source pixels before overwriting them.

Of the two implemented methods, Blt is the more flexible and BltFast is the fasterbut only if there is no hardware blitter. You can determine the blitting capabilities of the hardware from the DDCAPS structure obtained in the lpDDDriverCaps parameter of the IDirectDraw7::GetCaps method. If the dwCaps member contains DDCAPS_BLT, the hardware has at least minimal blitting capabilities.

[Cota]

no need to have rivatuner in the systray

actually you can install rivatuner make the changes and uninstall if you want

[BENCHMARKMAN]

Originally Posted by TheTaz

Is there a way to set these things without RivaTuner?

Like a direct registry entry?

I really don't want another app in my system tray.

Thanks,

Taz

EDIT: Some info on blitting (DirectX 7 stuff.. but probably still applies):

Blitting

The term blit is shorthand for "bit block transfer," which is the process of transferring blocks of data from one place in memory to another. Graphics programmers use blitting to transfer graphics from one place in memory to another. Blits are often used to perform sprite animation, which is discussed later.

For more information on blitting in DirectDraw, see Blitting to Surfaces.

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Blitting to Surfaces

This section is a guide to copying pixels from one DirectDraw surface to another, or from one part of a surface to another.

Two methods are available for copying images to a DirectDraw surface: IDirectDrawSurface7::Blt and IDirectDrawSurface7::BltFast. (A third method, IDirectDrawSurface7::BltBatch, is not implemented in this version of DirectX.) These methods are called on the destination surface and receive the source surface as a parameter. The destination and source surfaces can be one and the same, and you don't have to worry about overlapDirectDraw takes care to preserve all source pixels before overwriting them.

Of the two implemented methods, Blt is the more flexible and BltFast is the fasterbut only if there is no hardware blitter. You can determine the blitting capabilities of the hardware from the DDCAPS structure obtained in the lpDDDriverCaps parameter of the IDirectDraw7::GetCaps method. If the dwCaps member contains DDCAPS_BLT, the hardware has at least minimal blitting capabilities.

RivaTuner doesn't run in the background.

[TheTaz]

Yeah... I haven't used it in years... forgot.

Downloaded and set the blitting things.

Taz

[oozish]

It should be noted that if you DON'T have the problems don't do this, it is a performance penalty.