How I solved my Hitching/Freezing problem

[{RH} Dust]

This might help some people with their sudden quick freeze problem in the game.

 

Originally I had this configuration while running the game.

 

Athlon Slot 650

384 megs of pc100 RAM

Geforce 2 TI video card

Sound Blaster PCI 128 sound card

Linksys LNEPCI2 network card

 

and running Windows 2000 OS

 

 

First thing I did was replace the operating system with Windows 2000 Server (I needed the server edition anyways). Didn't fix it.

 

Then I tried all the various things with the video card and sound card drivers. Didn't fix it. Even took out the sound card.

 

Finally I replaced the CPU, Motherboard, and RAM. Still didn't fix it.

 

So, the only thing left was the network card. I didn't understand how the network card would be the cause of the problem. I mean, I was transferring gigs of files over the network without any problems....how can some small packets from a game be a bandwidth hog? Well, either way, I replaced the network card. And walla, no more Hitching!!

 

The old network card was so old that Linksys didn't make any new drivers for it. Windows 2000 used the Winbond default driver since Linksys uses Winbond chips for its network cards.

 

So, here's my new configuration that JK2 has no problems working on.

 

Athlon XP 1800 (excellent deal!)

256 megs of PC2100 RAM (ram is so spendy nowadays)

GeForce 2 TI Video card (I'm using the newest drivers, 28.32 i think)

Sound Blaster PCI 128 Card (Also with the newest drivers)

Linksys LNE100TX network Card (Cheap!)

and Windows 2000 Server (I have tons of services running in the background, including IIS, SQL, Coldfusion, as well as many standard 2000 server services. They don't seem to be slowing JK2 at all)

 

I hope this help some people!! I know I hate it when I died because my computer froze for that 1 sec. And you know you can't complain about it without being called a Whiner.

 

Good Luck!!

[WhiteChedda]

Originally posted by {RH} Dust

This might help some people with their sudden quick freeze problem in the game.

 

Originally I had this configuration while running the game.

 

Athlon Slot 650

384 megs of pc100 RAM

Geforce 2 TI video card

Sound Blaster PCI 128 sound card

Linksys LNEPCI2 network card

 

and running Windows 2000 OS

 

 

First thing I did was replace the operating system with Windows 2000 Server (I needed the server edition anyways). Didn't fix it.

 

Then I tried all the various things with the video card and sound card drivers. Didn't fix it. Even took out the sound card.

 

Finally I replaced the CPU, Motherboard, and RAM. Still didn't fix it.

 

So, the only thing left was the network card. I didn't understand how the network card would be the cause of the problem. I mean, I was transferring gigs of files over the network without any problems....how can some small packets from a game be a bandwidth hog? Well, either way, I replaced the network card. And walla, no more Hitching!!

 

The old network card was so old that Linksys didn't make any new drivers for it. Windows 2000 used the Winbond default driver since Linksys uses Winbond chips for its network cards.

 

So, here's my new configuration that JK2 has no problems working on.

 

Athlon XP 1800 (excellent deal!)

256 megs of PC2100 RAM (ram is so spendy nowadays)

GeForce 2 TI Video card (I'm using the newest drivers, 28.32 i think)

Sound Blaster PCI 128 Card (Also with the newest drivers)

Linksys LNE100TX network Card (Cheap!)

and Windows 2000 Server (I have tons of services running in the background, including IIS, SQL, Coldfusion, as well as many standard 2000 server services. They don't seem to be slowing JK2 at all)

 

I hope this help some people!! I know I hate it when I died because my computer froze for that 1 sec. And you know you can't complain about it without being called a Whiner.

 

Good Luck!!

 

One possible explanation is a shared IRQ. I had a similar problem with an old D-link NIC. It shared an IRQ qith my Nvidia TNT2U, and they did not get along nicely, I tried moving the Dlink NIC around, no go it refused to pick up another IRQ, so I bought a Linksys, at first same problem, but moving it from one slot to the next fixed it 100%.

[Fatal-x]

chedda--on a serious note,because you seem to have experience with this,do you think it would help if I moved my sound card to another slot?

 

I intentionally skipped a slot in an effort to reduce heat on my graphics card.

 

What do you think?