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View Poll Results: Do you experiment audio stuttering in Half Life 2? | |||
Hell yes and this is really annoying |
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64 | 47.76% |
A little at loading time |
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28 | 20.90% |
It was stuttering and I fixed the issue with some tweaking |
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8 | 5.97% |
Never had any stuttering in the game |
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34 | 25.37% |
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Join Date: Aug 2002
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![]() I seen many threads about this on many forums, people with all kind of systems have this issue related to sound loadings or something. I personally have 3 different sound cards in 2 systems and I always have this bug, I even have it with the game Vampire Mascarade. Is there anyone who don't have this issue, if so post your specs so we can compare, we actually only have data about the systems that aren't working!
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![]() Perfect sound. no stuttering at all. May be 3 seconds at level load times but thats normal as it is finnishing with the cashe loading. Audigy 2 (using 5.1 sound) drivers dated 2/23/2004 version 5.12.1.443 9800pro / 128 (4.12 beta drivers) AMD 2400+ (266 fsb) 1024 mb ram XP home |
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Radeon R600
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Japan
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![]() Hi. Just got around to reading your question ::qcx: . Like Skulle_again said in his reply I only have about 2 seconds of stuttering on the level loads,but then all is fine. Here is what I have done to solve previous issuses. -Disabled on board Realtek sound through the BIOS. -Updated Soundcard drivers. -Set 5.1 speakers through the Control panel.( Windows ) -Updated mobo BIOS to most recent. -Installed my soundcard into the 2nd slot below Vidcard. I hope this can help you. P4 2.8GHz c (stock speed). Gigabyte GA81PE1000pro 2 (rev2) 1GB Samsung pc3200 DDR400 memory Dual channel ATI X800XT PE VIVO @ stock speed. SoundBlaster Audigy 2zs Logitech Z680s 5.1 speakers |
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Radeon R600
Join Date: Mar 2004
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![]() I don't like experimenting with audio stuttering but I do experience it after loading times. |
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![]() i get it after loading, thats it. disregard my sig, i'm using an m-audio revo 5.1 and not the audigy 2. |
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![]() Not sure which of the two following things helped me (still stutters a little on level load): 1) Use -heapsize in launch options 2) increase the sound mixahead slightly in the cfg file
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![]() I don't but then i can't even get it to install so...
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![]() audigy 2zs....stutters all of the time for me
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![]() no stutter after a mixahead change to .5 and disabling of the stupid cpu eating 'stereo widening' dsp. |
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![]() I have 1GB of ram - and it's still swapping on a clean install of XP with NOTHING running in the background?
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Join Date: Feb 2004
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![]() I´m getting it is very annoying SB Audigy 2 with latest drivers 26/6/04 and 512Mgs of DRR in dual channel and Radeon 9800 pro 128Mgs
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As to the stutter, it was horrid to begin with, but has almost entirely vanished since I installed the latest Audigy 2 drivers and uninstalled the MP3 codec I had on my machine. |
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Radeon R200
Join Date: Jan 2002
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![]() I have fixed my serious stutter problem and have only slight pauses at the beginning of a new level. I used the Nforce Betas, upgraded to the latest ATI drivers, increased my AGP aperature size (which was only at 64mb), and turned off AGP fast writes. I am not sure which of these fixed the problem since I tried them all that the same time.
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Radeon R700
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![]() As for stuttering, a defrag fixed it up. It's definitely due to HDD usage, so clean it up, foo!
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![]() No stuttering here just clicks or snaps every once in a while which is quite annoying. |
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![]() My current drive is only like 7% fragmented... It does note the HL2 files being some of the most fragmented ones though. Guess I could try it. Doubt it will help. |
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![]() i have them, but look at my hardware |
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Radeon R700
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![]() Stutters like a slow kid on Ecstasy. Gah it's annoying.
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Freedom Fighter Morgan
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![]() can anyone with a serial hard drive confirm or deny the existence of stuttering? |
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![]() It stutters pretty frequently for me which is weird since I have 1gb ram and no other game stutters ![]() |
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Radeon R100
Join Date: Oct 2002
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![]() I have annoying stutters too. At first i thought it's because my hardware is not optimized (they are not, I never bothered to tweak too hard for those few extra fps). But after reading about this issue everywhere I guess there is more to it. A defrag seems to shorten level load times, and ease stutter somewhat but it does not go away. I am praying for a patch, but then I already finished the game (quite a ride, shame about the ending though) Athlon64 3200 MSI K8N Neo2 512Mb RAM Geforce 6800GT (used to be 9700pro) |
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![]() I've got a PATA 7200.7 connected to SATA via a converter on my NFS-2, and am experiencing the stuttering. Defragging right now (wasn't too bad - about 10% fragmented) and hoping that will remedy the issue. Using the onboard SoundStorm audio. Current non-beta audio drivers. Latest mobo drivers. Cat4.10 drivers. |
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Radeon 9800 Pro 256 MB P4 3.2 Ghz 2 GB DDR RAM 72 GB 10 K RPM SATA HD SB Live! Windows XP (SP1) |
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