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Stewy

Dealing with "spike-lag"?

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G'day guys,

Can you help me with this problem.

I've just bought a new rig (a power surge killed my last one) and I keep getting spikes in lag whenever things happen in ArmA1 (and 2)

If baddies come over the hill -there's a brief stutter...

If I go an auto burst - there's a brief stutter...

in FS2004, if someone speaks on the radio - there's a brief a stutter...

By rights, my rig should be smashing Arma1 and 2 and Fs2004, but the "spike lags" are a pain in the ar$e!

Can you help please? Should I take it back to the store?

My rig:

Intel Quad Core at 3.33 GHz

Windows 7 64 bit

6 Gig of RAM

2x Nividia GTX 275

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Mate, send me your rig and I give you mine :D

We almost have the same setup, except that I have an old Q9550 @ 2.8 GHz and just one GTX280.

I run ArmA2 without any compatibility settings and it just runs fine. With ArmA1 I must use below settings/parameters to make it run:

- Run as administrator

- Run in XP compatibility mode

- Add the -dsound parameter to the ArmA shortcut

Guess the CPU is an i7 one? There are quite a few threads in ArmA2 troubleshooting dealing with i7 performance problems. From what I recall disabling Hyperthreading in BIOS might help. Could also be the SLI setup.

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Thanks Wolle for your help, Sir. I'll check that out! ;)

Stew

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ht helps with bad performance, but the micro stutter is still there. and that can be more annoying than low fps tbh.

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Thanks guys, I'm toying with the idea of even going back to XP - at least that won't chew the power as much! I never had problems with micro-stutter with XP...

I really only use the comp for A1, Fs2004, internet and a bit of MS office work- so W7 is a bit of overkill...

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