Sound skips sometimes, cauising Stuttering.

[orrimarrko]

Heya, Im having this problem in Single and Muliplayer.

 

Whenever I die, or go into a new area i havent been to before.. ths sound will skip, and the game will stutter, dropping the framerate from like 150 to 2-3fps, for a few seconds, then will go back to 150 again.

 

I have the ATI Radeon 8500 graphics card. and tried 6052 and 6043 rev 2 driver set. Im using default AC97 audio, and tried a aureal vortex card aswell, same results. 256 ram, and AMD 2000+ XP cpu.

 

Anyone else get this?

[amagliul]

I have this problem too. I mostly notice it in multiplayer. It seems to happen when I die in a new way (animation) or hit tab for the first time to see the scores. It just seems to freeze for me for about 2-10 seconds with the sound looping and then resumes normally.

 

I also have the problem of long load times, which is insane to me. My system should be able to handle almost anything thrown at it with ease. The only bottleneck I may have is the radeon, but I wouldn't think that should affect the load times so much.

I have noticed that the harddrive is not accessed much during a level load. Its idle for what seems like 50 percent of the time it takes to load a level....... strange.

 

System:

Athlon 1800+ on a Soyo Dragon +

768 MB DDR Ram

Ati Radeon All-in-wonder

2 X 60 GB WD drives raided

SB Live!