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[Nafeasonto]

I have posted this in an earlier post and really don't feel like listing my stats of my computer again.

For dragon age and THIS.  I get CONSTANT video stuttering.  That eventually hurts my eyes.  Also, the load times are INSANE.  This is unnacceptable.

I have asked this question MULTIPLE times, and a lot of other people are getting the same issues.  BIOWARE or EA will NOT ADDRESS THE ISSUE.

Many people fix this by using only ONE CORE. (set Affinity)  WHich is UNACCEPTABLE.  I have a duel core computer and I want to use it that way.  

Without DUEL core, my framerate drops dramatically.  With it ON i get constant stuttering and insanely long load times. 

BIOWARE PLEASE ACKNOWLEDGE this already, MULTIPLE PEOPLE have this problem, why the heck can't your games work on DUEL CORE???  I am sick of complaining about this and seeing other people complain about this, and GET NO RESPONSE.

** Possible work arounds:

1.  CLOSE EVERYTHING running in the background.  No matter what it is.  ANYTHING.  Make sure NOTHING is running in the task bar. ABSOLUTELY nothing.  (Besides your Sound icon)
2.  Disable ALL MICROSOFT Services.
3.  DISABLE DISABLE your Anti Virus software.  Close it out, anything to prevent it from using resources.
4.  Defrag the ME2 directory.
5.  Set priority level of ME2 to ABOVE NORMAL.
6.  TURN OFF SHADOWS.  This is a MAJOR stutter issue problem.  Shadows make game play experience HORRIBLE.
7. TURN ON AA. Believe it or NOT because your video card is working harder, it will pump more resources into it.
8. TURN OFF FILM GRAIN.
9.  If you have Windows 7, put the theme on WINDOWS 7 BASIC.  All those colorful effects will EAT up your resources even when you are running a game.

You should be able to run on DUEL CORE, with little to NO stuttering.  HOWEVER.  WIth DUel COre still on, the LOAD TIMES ARE INSANE.  Compared to when it's off.  This makes NO SENSE.

Modifié par Naféasonto, 27 janvier 2010 - 04:23 .

[Nafeasonto]

bump

[chriscurry73]

I had an issue like that with DA:O but the "Disable TMP Patch" fix worked for me... I've got a quad core Intel Phenom. Maybe you could try that?

[Nafeasonto]

what's the disable TMP patch?

[Necrochain]

It depends on what model you have, and what manufacturer its from. You probably stutter because your rig isn't powerful enough for the game.

Modifié par Necrochain, 27 janvier 2010 - 04:51 .

[low8all]

Gota go with Necrochain on this one. You motherboard (not sure the exact model since you just listed MSI K7) could be upwards of 6 years old. With 1GB GPU AND W7 all on 2gb of low latency DDR ram running at what? 133mhz? C'mon. First of all, you 1gb of GPU memory has gota be adressed by you RAM and second of all, Windows 7 is going to eat up a fair chunk of that RAM as well. You have ZERO headroom to do anything, let alone play a video game.



Maybe you can be more specific with your specs but since you shared very little and you've already stated that you won't go into it again, I'm guessing you'll be shelving your disks cause it ain't gona happen.

[Xonze]

I see you have an AMD proc, I wonder if others that have this problem have AMD. I have an intel 3ghz intel dual core and haven't had a problem (not bragging, just stating that dual core works).



What are your graphical settings? Have you tried lowering things down just to see if the stuttering stops? Leave the dual core normal and just lower settings and see when/if it stops and post back.



If removing shadows fixes it, it could be that your graphics card isn't up to snuff to run shadows at the settings you have. What res are you running at? System specs only help so much, setting help a bit more with problems like this.



This very well could be an issue with the game and not your settings or computer, but lets try ruling some things out and make sure.

[Nafeasonto]

I would agree with you. But people with higher rigs, are getting the same issues? If i had the money to upgrade I would. I don't have it right now. I priced it about 700 dollars. for an i5 core. 3.0 ghz. With 6Gb of DDR3 ram, and a damn good board. I have to wait on that. I have other games that run fine. TF2, Even Crysis runs good, with low FPS of course. But it still runs and doesn't stutter.

[Nafeasonto]

My Res is 1280X1024. It seems the Video card runs optimal at 1024X768, on most games. Here is the weird part:

If I put my computer on my 42" LCD Tv. On 1920X1080, the game runs smooth as hell. How does this make sense?

LOW FPS OF COURSE.  But playable.

***TV is at a lower refresh rate at 30HZ. 

I am not understanding this?  Maybe I need to lower my refresh of my LCD Monitor.  But it's optimate is 60HZ.  Grr.

Modifié par Naféasonto, 27 janvier 2010 - 05:05 .

[LordFess]

Sorry yer havin a problem with the game friend. I have a Intel Core2 Duo E8500 3.16 GHZ on Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit and do not OC. I have 4 gig of DDR2 RAM with a EVGA GeForce GTX 295 COOP Edition video card. .......So far I can honestly say that my experience with the game preformance has been perfect. For me this game has run smooth as silk with ZERO stutters,load time issues,sound problems or anything else...... I have everything in the video options turned on max and I am running the game 1900x1200 resolution......

I truely empathise with the problems you are having with ME2 and hope you find a swift resolution to your problems.

Modifié par LordFess, 27 janvier 2010 - 05:11 .

[Nafeasonto]

Maybe I do need to upgrade. --sigh-- I am so low on money it's not even funny. This sucks.

[Xonze]

I completely understand not having the money, I use to be running on a 7950gt and mass effect stuttered a bit as well. Hell tf2 still stutters from time to with that sound bug even on a gtx260 and 4 gigs.



What are your texture settings? Have you made sure bloom is off? Try lowering your res to 800x600. (I know thats a horrible res...but its just a test.) Just lower things until it doesn't stutter, this way we can see if it really is the game, or if the game is pushing to much for your computer.



I would be curious to know if most people who have this trouble are running AMD procs and not intel.

[Nafeasonto]

when i get home from my wonderful low paying job, ill turn bloom off i forgot about that.

[Sevris4]

i've got intel dual core 9400 (2.4 ghz or soemthing like that) and nvidia 9700gt, vista 64, and 4 gigs of ram, and i've had hte settings max, res max, settings all to low/off and low res, and it'll run smooth for a bit but then out of no where it'll stutter too, i know i dont have top of the line rig, but i'm well above the specs, and i've ran more demanding games far better. it can run smooth, it just gets choppy and laggy at random times, my cpu usage sky rockets to 90-100 percent. i dont know what gives. never had this problem before.

[Aezay]

Try this:

1) Open up Windows Media Player, do not play any files, just keep it open in the background.

2) Start Mass Effect 2 and see if its any better.

[thescinema]

i was having the same issue until i upgraded my 8800gt's drivers and then defragged using "deep optimize" setting in smart defrag. now ME2 runs smooth as butter.

[AgntOrange]

Aezay, not that I figured your suggestion would work, but I tried it to no avail, still getting some lag and junk. Nice try though.

[buymagicfish]

Thing is I have a nice rig, not top of the line but core2duo 2.4ghz, 4gigs ram, 8800gt and the stuttering is the worst in cutscenes, not the game itself, which only stutters when loading a new area (worse outdoors) or in battle. It even stutters terribly in loading screens.



Maybe its a hard drive problem?

[Aezay]

@AgntOrange, actually my suggestion is not a bad joke or anything. It has to do with the timeBeginPeriod() function, which would sometimes help certain systems. Cannot remember the exact details anymore.

@buymagicfish, it could be anything really, back when I had winxp, I had this sound stuttering in cod4, which I just couldn't get rid of. Then I upgraded to win7, same hardware, and suddenly cod4 runs fine without any stuttering at all.

Modifié par Aezay, 29 janvier 2010 - 12:07 .

[Sevris4]

i'll try the defrag, all my drivers are up to date, thanks

[Aezay]

Is it only people with xp having this issue?

Please read this thread:
http://forum.noteboo...ead.php?t=60416

[buymagicfish]

@Aezay luckily I have a copy of win 7 and a spare partition. I'll load it up and dual boot and see if it works.



I know I know, why not switch if I have a copy? Too old and stuborn and set in my ways ; )

[Aezay]

@buymagicfish, as an old user of xp myself, I know how hard it was getting used to win7 after I did the switch. But ultimately it was worth it, because it feels more stable. I've turned off all new win7 features that I can, since they are useless to me, and it feels pretty much the same as xp.
Gotta do the switch sooner or later anyway, since developers will stop support for xp eventually.

[Sevris4]

i'm running on vista 64, i tried the windows media player thing, i tried defrag, still nothing. found on steam forum, to d/l the openAL lastest version and rename the one in the binairies folder a different one and that didn't work, tried uninstalling reinstalling.....i am on steam, but others on steam are running it fine....so i'm at a loss...a very frustrated loss

[grantw73]

Check for a memory leak.... sounds to me like maybe that could be the problem. Open task manager and look at your VM/pagefile usage. If the number is skyrocketing and not going low after a while it is a memory leak I think.





No problems here at all with frame rate or shudder.



Intel Core i720 @ 3.880 GHz

ATI Sapphire 4870 X2 2GB GDDR5

Xp x64

Res 1080 x 1920

16x AA