HL2 Stuttering Bad

[Fastballs]

I have read a number posts and have tried many things, but I feel my last resort is to post a thread. HL2 is stuttering very bad. The video stutters and secondarly images, boxes, tables, etc disappear, and then once the stuttering ends everything comes back. Could this be a videa or a sound problem? Here is my specs:

Dell Dimession 4300 1.8 ghz
764 mb RAM
nVidia GeForce Ti 4200 128mb Vid Card
Santa Cruz sound card
120mb hard drive with 8 mb cache

Please help!

Fb

 

[agentbob00]

yes i have the ti 4200 also and it lags out really bad sometimes, and more often since the "patch" but i dont care i still beat it, i couldnt wait to get a new card....i bought a x800xt but its out of stock of course so im just waiting, i should have it by christmas

 

[agentbob00]

yes i have the ti 4200 also and it lags out really bad sometimes, and more often since the "patch" but i dont care i still beat it, i couldnt wait to get a new card....i bought a x800xt but its out of stock of course so im just waiting, i should have it by christmas


oh btw, i dont know how to fix it...

 

[Lobster]

Dell Dimession 4300 1.8 ghz
764 mb RAM
nVidia GeForce Ti 4200 128mb Vid Card
Santa Cruz sound card
120mb hard drive with 8 mb cache

I have a very similar system to yours except for the graphics card, which is a 9700 pro, big difference there i guess, but i get no stuttering except for the universal save pause.

I have the same ammount of ram as you and have "-heapsize 502000" in the HL2 launch options, i doubt it will make much difference, but its worth a try, if you havnt already.

 

[CorruptAssassin]

Nope, I have EXACTLY the same specs to yours, in fact, some things worse:

1.8GHz P4
128MB GeForce 4 Ti 4200
40GB 7200RPM Harddrive
512MB SD RAM
Onboard AC'97 sound

And I can play the game maxed settings (medium for that sweet sweet framerate feeling though) fine. There IS stuttering, only around autosave/quicksaves, and when the level is just finished loading, and I look around alot. After this, its fine.

You should play around with some settings. Your hardware should not be causing the problems your experiencing.

I must say though, im getting an AMD 2600+, 512 DDR 3200 RAM, and a sweet Gigabyte motherboard damn soon, and I cant wait to compare the difference in gaming

Have a search of the forums regarding fixes, and best of luck!

 

[Orange]

I have a 9000pro 1.79 gig 512mb ram.
I get 15 fps and stuttering, but nothing as severe as others reporting.

when i play windowed, i can get 40-60 fps! ;D **** yeah!

 

[rail0r]

Did you get the stuttering a few weeks ago before the 'stuttering' update. If no try putting mat_forcemanagedtextureintohardware 0 into the console - this new command made my stuttering worse and made my FPS drop by 8fps in the stress test.

 

[doomed - uk]

Maybe people with similar systems who have little or no stuttering telling the people with problems which driver combination they are using might be helpful.