games stutter plz help

[centy]

check to see if there are any hardware conflicts/sharing going on.

 

click START>>All Programs>>Accesories>>System Tools>>System Information

 

click on the arrow next to Hardware Resources and select Conflicts/Sharing

 

Any two devices on the same IRQ?

[jamesbond]

what things should i be locking for in the Conflicts/Sharing thing.and what should the paging file be on.what prime test should i do thanks for the help.

[centy]

In the conflicts/sharing tab you should be looking to see if there are two entries which both have the same irq, and if you find any take steps to get them onto their own irq.

 

The paging file should be set to 1.5 times the ammount of ram you have, so if you have 1gb ram, set it to the min and max to 1536Mb.

 

You should do the prime blend test to check overall system stability. hope this helps.

 

The optimal pagefile size is often debated, all I can suggest is you have a read around and come to your own conclusions.

[jamesbond]

thanks alot but i have 2 gig of ram

[jamesbond]

I/O Port 0x00000000-0x00000CF7 PCI bus

I/O Port 0x00000000-0x00000CF7 Direct memory access controller

 

I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF NVIDIA nForce3 250 AGP Host to PCI Bridge

I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF Sapphire RADEON X800XL

 

IRQ 20 Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller

IRQ 20 NVIDIA Network Bus Enumerator

 

IRQ 21 Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller

IRQ 21 NVIDIA nForce3 250 Serial ATA Controller (v2.6)

 

Memory Address 0xD8000000-0xDFFFFFFF PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge

Memory Address 0xD8000000-0xDFFFFFFF Creative SB X-Fi

 

IRQ 22 Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller

IRQ 22 NVIDIA nForce3 250 Serial ATA Controller (v2.6)

 

IRQ 9 Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System

IRQ 9 SCSI/RAID Host Controller

 

I/O Port 0x0000B000-0x0000BFFF NVIDIA nForce3 250 AGP Host to PCI Bridge

I/O Port 0x0000B000-0x0000BFFF Sapphire RADEON X800XL

 

IRQ 18 VIA OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller

IRQ 18 Creative SB X-Fi

 

Memory Address 0xC0000000-0xCFFFFFFF NVIDIA nForce3 250 AGP Host to PCI Bridge

Memory Address 0xC0000000-0xCFFFFFFF Sapphire RADEON X800XL

 

Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF PCI bus

Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF NVIDIA nForce3 250 AGP Host to PCI Bridge

Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF Sapphire RADEON X800XL

 

I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB NVIDIA nForce3 250 AGP Host to PCI Bridge

I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB Sapphire RADEON X800XL

 

I/O Port 0x0000C000-0x0000CFFF PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge

I/O Port 0x0000C000-0x0000CFFF VIA OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller

[owcraftsman]

OKay James it's time to see Q

 

You must be a newbi that is you are new to all this kind of stuff.

1st and formost i suggest you read read read..... and then read some more to get a feel for how things are done. Start with your owners manual and know exactly what hardware and sofware you have make a list.

 

Here's a place to get some bench mark and stress test software go here> http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=189418

 

Before you proceed or post here again anwser all the questions posed by all those who have tried to help you. Then post.

If you do your research and get the anwsers you will be way ahead of the game and I recommend you take the advice serious from post 14 and follow his steps to the letter.

 

If after that you want to overclock there are several good threads on the subject here at DFI-Street and then you will want to know how to Prime your computer

 

 

To get prime95 go here> http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft.htm

 

 

First, install the program as you would any other. Next, run it, and go to the ‘Advanced’ tab – select ‘Password’. Type in the password 9876 and enter it. Now go back to the ‘Advanced’ tab, and select ‘Priority’. Set the priority level to 10.

 

This effectively gives all of your system resources to Prime95 when it is running – now any processes running hidden in the background won’t be able to steal work time from Prime95, ensuring the most effective stress test possible.

 

At the very bottom of this post, a picture has been uploaded to further clarify Priority Ten setup for Prime95.

 

When you want to stress test your processor, run Prime95, go to the ‘Options’ tab, and select ‘Torture Test’. Run the Torture test at the default settings.

 

Make sure that you have turned off any screensavers, and closed all other applications when Prime95 is running.

 

Prime95 should never be run in tandem with any other stress testing programs, period. Prime95 is known and proven to be most effective when run by itself, and is less thorough when used with something else running at the same time. If you use Motherboard Monitor Five to monitor your temperatures, you should turn the interval time way down – 60 seconds is appropriate.

 

If you have an Intel processor with Hyper Threading, you need to run two instances of Prime95 for complete effectiveness. This is proven fact; in that two instances of Prime95 will catch instability that one instance won’t, on an Intel machine with HT. In order to run two instances simultaneously, simply install a second copy of Prime95 in a different folder, and run it in tandem with your original. Priority ten should be used for both instances of Prime95 in this case.

 

When you are stability testing with Prime95, you want to run the Torture Test for at least 24 hours. Why 24 hours?

 

There is a very common misconception that if your machine can pass Prime95 stability testing for, say, four hours, your machine will be able to run stable, regardless of what you are doing, for four hours as well, without issue. This is simply not the case.

 

Prime95 often finds errors in its 16th - 20th hour of testing, a potential for instability that wasn’t found after only four hours of testing. After only four hours of Prime95, the potential for instability still exists. 24 hours is widely viewed as a sufficient time period to catch any instability that may be present, but by all means test longer if you are able.

 

If 24 hours seems like an extraordinarily long time to leave your computer on, keeping your machine unusable because of the processes it’s doing, try running Prime95 overnight, and then through to all day while you’re at school or work.

 

For CPU specific testing, a Large FFT Prime95 test is an alternative to the more "system-stress" oriented Blend test that runs by default. The choice is ultimately up to the end user - the Blend test is reccomended in these guidelines because of it's qualities as both a processor and system stress test.

 

That’s all there is to Prime95 – 24 hours of Prime95 at Priority ten is "certified stable", and ready to rock for 24/7

 

Oh yeah stay away from that porn.

[wevsspot]

When you built this rig did you perform a fresh windows install, or did you carry your install over from another rig?

 

You have five IRQ channels sharing resources. Usually it's only one or two. The most common cause of this is carrying over an old install to a new m/b. Did you do that?

[owcraftsman]

The biggest conflict I see is the mismatched Memory The timmings on a 1GB stick as opposed to a pair of 512GB stick is plenty. Even though they are both Crucial it is very lickly very different timmings and chips.

[wevsspot]

Very true.

[jamesbond]

thanks for the help i did a fresh install ill do the prime test tonight or should i fix the irq.

[wevsspot]

A fresh install of Windows should have done the trick concerning IRQ assignments. Windows 2000 Pro and XP/XP Pro do a very good job of managing shared IRQ's as long as you do a fresh install. So don't try to manually mess with any of the IRQ assignments - I repeat, leave them alone.

 

I'd be really interested in seeing your IRQ assignments now post fresh install.

 

The other thing you need to do, EVEN BEFORE RUNNING PRIME, is to run MemTest at least five loops tests 1-8 and make sure that your memory is stable, in fact that should have been done prior to the fresh install.

[jamesbond]

what should i do reinstall windows again run prime test plz help