Stuttering on only one drive...

[jimbodoggy]

Hi everyone.

Just thought I'd say that I was running hl2 on a 120 gb maxtor SATA drive for a few days and it was stuttering like mad, even on a high spec machine.

Changed back to my seagate 80 gb IDE drive and everything ran smoothly again.

Specs:
AMD 3400
1GB RAM
Gainward 6800 GT


Apart from that, just finished the game with no other problems!

Bring on half life 3 !!

 

[Flyingbig]

What did you use NTFS or FAT32? Tell me what you used before and after. Expecially interested what you had your S-ata drive formatted with. I have it formatted with NTFS and always wondered how it would perform with FAT32. Cheers.

 

[jimbodoggy]

Hi there. Both drives were formatted with NTFS...

 

[Flyingbig]

Cheers, saves me having to reformat the whole computer so i can test fat32. Oh Hl2 and Counter-strike updating, interesting!

 

[lord_galathon]

This is how I fixed 99% of the stutter on my PC. See my system specs below in my signature.

1 - Defrag the drive where HL2 is installed.
2 - Lower the water reflections to simple reflections.
3 - Keep all the rest to the reccomended with the *
4 - Turn on the wait for v/sync.

Now, it only stutters once twice when I save with F6. Counter-Stike does not stutter at all. Ever.

It used to stutter whenever I had any important sounds like some music starting and a bunch of monsters or combines waiting for me around the corner. Now I don't get stutters unless I hit F6.

-LG

 

[Cogar]

Although this has been a topic of hot debate at some forums, and maybe here as well, FAT32 is often faster than NTFS. The primary advantages of NTFS are better security features for networking and write-protected files and directories (if enabled via Windows XP, etc.), and ability to handle larger file sizes (over 4 GB as I recall).

 

[TEDR]

if FAT32 is faster it cant be by much !! my drive speed being 7200rpm.
i perfer NTFS system myself.

i read this from some web site :-

Up to 60-80 Gb Fat32 vs Ntfs has Fat32 commin out on top performance ways, 80-120 or so its even, and first from there on and up, ntfs gets ahead. No "real" performance gain on the smaller sizes.