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'Choppy' gameplay
Name: Dave Mills Date: December 13, 2003 at 13:10:25 Pacific OS: Win98SE,XP CPU/Ram: P4 2.8c,512meg
Comment:
Hello, If you are experiencing choppy or stuttering gameplay i.e.momentary sound glitches, or screen pauses, please check that you have DMA enabled for your hard drive where the game is running from (and CD-Roms,DVD's etc..) I had this problem recently after Windows 'forgot' the checkmarks in the DMA boxes, and my games were stuttering and jumping. If it is happening as the machine is accessing the drive as well as playing the game, then DMA could be the culprit.
Thought this might help people with the same problem...
Name: j3r3my07 Date: December 13, 2003 at 17:13:12 Pacific
Reply:
yeah i have this sound glitches when playing call of duty and it makes the game a little jumpy during the gameplay...btw how do i enable DMA for my hard drive???
specs xp1500, aiwradeon8500128, 1gb ram, and audigy 2.
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Response Number 2
Name: EsP_ Date: December 13, 2003 at 21:37:22 Pacific
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j3r3my07, try downloading drivers for your sound card.
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Response Number 3
Name: Dave Mills Date: December 14, 2003 at 02:23:35 Pacific
Name: j3r3my_07 Date: December 14, 2003 at 08:11:57 Pacific
Reply:
Esp,
do you know where i can find the latest driver for my audigy 2? I went to creative's website but they didnt have it. The available driver is for the EAX4.0
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Response Number 5
Name: EsP_ Date: December 14, 2003 at 22:58:35 Pacific
Reply:
If you can't download the drivers for your sound card, you should try downloading drivers for your motherboard agp and video card.
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