Game "stutter" every time an arrow is shot

[Colm]

Hey all,

I had a read through the forums and hadn't seen this issue discussed, so I apologise if it has been

I've only played in the arena so far, but every time someone fires a bow (me or an NPC) the game "stutters" - that is, freezes for about half a second. My FPS sits at 149.blah pretty much constantly, except just after the freeze (when it races back up so fast the lowest number I saw was 120).

I'm playing on a Toshiba Satellite M40 with a GeForce Go 6600 (128MB), P-M 2.0 Ghz (~ P4 2.6 - 3.0 GHz), 1024MB DDR RAM and a 7200 RPM HDD.

In the config file, I set the tw configurable to the appropriate value for a 128MB Grahpics card, and I tried turning off blood to see if that would help (but it didn't).

Has anyone else encountered this? It makes the game pretty hard to play

Colm

 

[Lu Bu]

Did you installed newest graphic card drivers?

 

[Colm]

Yes. Unfortunately for mobile graphics cards, that isn't saying much

edit:

OK, I upgraded my display drivers to nVidia's 81.98 using modified ones from http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/ .

The problem is still there

 

[Colm]

After having nothing else have any effect, I updated my graphic drivers again just the other day (again from www.laptopvideo2go.com) to 81.60 and this issue has cleared up

 

[James]

I've had this problem with every version, so it's not that, and I have a relatively decent graphics card. I think it only happens when the computer is thinking hard, regardless of whether or not the fps is high.

 

[Colm]

I'v actually managed to nail this bug down a bit harder - it was actually a combination of updating my grahpics drivers AND (as I read in another thread) using dxdiag to disable my sound accelleration.

 

[Archonsod]

Sound hardware appears to be the most common cause of this problem.

Most likely (laptop = definitely) the buffer on the hardware is too small, or else Windows refuses to utilise the soundcard's buffer correctly.

Might clear up with new soundcard drivers, though to be honest if you don't have a dedicated soundcard you might as well leave the sound acceleration off, since it won't actually do anything (but cause problems).