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hmm, I'm beginning to suspect the hard drive is defective.
If it has bad quality sectors the drive will have to re-read it several times.
they are probably not bad enough to be marked as bad (yet).
I would suggest you clone your system to another harddisk and see what that brings.
One can never have enough hard disk space, so it's not like you will be buying a disk for only this test.
greetings.
i dont get it thought, i went from caviar green which was causing most of my games to stuter to this 1, is my luck really that bad???
just a quick suggestion on my part idk if it makes any sense but... since i have my caviar green internal and also my caviar black internal, you think the green has something to do with it???
and the .dem if you have tf2 you stuff it in your tf2 folder and watch it threw tf2.
Im just scared that if i get another drive and it still continues idk what i will do.
Is there anything else i can possibly do?
oo i also failed to mention, while i was watching a show and installing something it had made my sound stutter on my tv show. so idk if its just the way some stuff is being optimized...
Last edited by sotorious; 13 Nov 2009 at 15:10.
If he's getting that larg of hard drives he should also always have a smaller partition for OS/System files because of problems like this as well. Even if their isn't fragmentation if he installs a game after the hdd is 30% filled then that will be putting files in both the slowest and almost farthest away from system files. Smartfan will tell you if the hdd is failing and it'll tell you very well on all SMART enabled HDD's. I love the damn thing.
I'm having similar stuttering issues with COD4 as well... When I run the game, i get 150+ fps but then every 5-10 seconds the game seems like it freezes for a quarter-half a second... This doesn't happen all the time though. Sometimes, the game will run fine for the whole night, but then the next day it will stutter again..
I've tried lowering the settings, turning on/off AA and nothing seems to work. Last night I tested out MW2 and that didn't have any issues. Going to monitor it for a little more.
In the meantime, I'm re-installing COD4 and hoping that will fix the issue.
should i give it more ram?
No, there's enough RAM as it is. The vast majority of games don't use any more than 2GB by themselves as it is.
im really starting to hate my computer with a passion.