I'm using Windows XP. I've always been under the impression that in-game gameplay is more resource intensive than the intro scenes or cut scenes, which is why I've not been bothered too much since gameplay is fine. It's just annoying that intros or cut scenes don't play smoothly and I don't know why that happens.

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cool grap card looks like can run faster than those F1 cars..

maybe changing your OS to vista will solve the problem but i am just guessing ..does your HDD light blinks a lot during cut scenes? it can even be as simple as defragging your hard drive to solve the problem

or try updating ur xp system's video codecs?
at www.free-codecs.com

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by the way,I tried 186.08 beta driver and there's strange flickering shadow in gta4.
anyone experience this?

This post has been edited by Terence573: Jun 9 2009, 01:03 PM

i tried 186.08 beta driver and the ambient occlusion is not working at all no matter how i change the settings.

how does the ao works? so far the games i hav played, only Saint Row2 hav the setting option for AO

nvidia ambient occlusion
http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_ambientocclusion_home.html
hmmm, its noticeable for me in l4d and especially cod4, sometimes the soft shadows tend to make players glow in cod4, which is abit of exploit in the game i think.

May i know what is C2D and C2Q?

C2D is Core 2 Duo and C2Q is Core 2 Quad

No, i din oc the gc and proc. I using silverstone psu 600 w
.Currently i using 185.65 dunoo still having this problem or not

Change to Vista? Uh, I'd prefer not to, based on some of the stories I've heard.

Anyway, it looks like it was just a vsync issue. After I turned on vsync it solved the problem.


Do video codecs impact on game performance? I though those are for video playback only. Anyway, I'm using CCCP for all my video codec needs.

those stories bout vista are fake unless u had experienced them urself

True, I have no problem gaming on Vista and now using Windows 7 RC1 and it is even better.

so vista now is more better than xp?
Coz i have also heard about the disadvantages of vista.

disadvantages of vista is that during idle it uses alot memory compared to xp, but windows 7 have a fix for that now. anything else vista runs just fine for me.

hmmm

how come got this problem
my current driver is 185.85

wat are the symptoms if 9800 gt didnt get enough power from psu or used wrong power cable to connect the card with psu

sometimes i run those games... grid... prince persia...will lag a while maybe once in an hour ...overheat?

This post has been edited by kueks: Jun 11 2009, 02:00 AM

If your card doesn't feed with enough power, your system will simply crash, either hard crash or crash to Windows. I don't know what you mean by 'wrong' power cable, its nearly impossible to connect a different cable since its keyed to fit one way

Overheat maybe but less likely, I guess its just eats too much memory by then

Well, not to say Vista is better. It is just that Vista is not as bad as some people claim to be. For me there is not much problem using Vista as gaming platform. In term of memory management, Windows 7 uses almost the same amount of RAM during idle with Vista... but application launching speed is faster and smoother in 7.

try to uninstall tht nview desktop manager and reinstall a newer version?