Stuttery or unplayable?

[SaintSinner]

Hmmm... I have to disagree with the task priority setting. I can play fine for 20-30 minutes, and then it starts chugging... animations dropping frames, etc, turns taking longer, etc.

Toggle out of the game, change the priority to "Normal", toggle back into the game, and everything is running fine again.

I have no crashes, no issues at all except the occasional slowness which is fixed by changing the task back to "Normal". This happens when in SLI and non-SLI mode.

I have to do this every 15-20 minutes of play, continuously... and is the reason I'm on the boards, looking for a fix.

EDIT::

More info...
I've been watching the Task Manager on a 2nd monitor, and with the priority manually set to "Normal", it's eating up 52-54% Proc... when I start seeing "lag", it's only using 20-25%, and when I look it's set to "Below Normal"... change it to "Normal", get back in game, and it jumps back to ~50%, and no more "lag"... until it happens again.

My system specs:
Win XP Pro SP2
DirectX 9c
NVidia Forceware 81.85

Asus P5ND2 SLI Deluxe
Intel P4 640 3.2 775
2gb Corsair XMS Ram (VRAM = 1.5x)
2x eVGA 7800GT 256 (OC'd, 500/1200)
Using on-board sound, EAX2 mode
2x 200gb 7.2k SATA Seagate HD's in RAID 1
2x 200gb 7.2k SATA Seagate HD's in RAID 1

[OmEgA-X1]

Im doubting its the RAM that causes the game to chug, here are my specs...

GeForceFX 5500 256mb
AMD 2100+
384mb DDR


The game plays smoothly on Medium graphics settings until way late in the game, where the framerate drops but the game is still very playable.

[eggdisk]

Originally posted by SaintSinner
Hmmm... I have to disagree with the task priority setting. I can play fine for 20-30 minutes, and then it starts chugging... animations dropping frames, etc, turns taking longer, etc.

What I meant is that the task priority itself isn't the cause of the slowness.

There must be several different bugs that effect certain video cards.

The slowdown on mine is easily viewable. If I start a new game (on any map size), the game is extremely slow instantly. If I zoom out, the second I go above the cloud level it goes up to 60fps+. It is the same on low with everything turned off.