Running Problems..game stutters

[Fenril]

Game pauses and/or slows down every 2-3 secs...like a stutter or something.

I have no idea what could be causing this as it came out of nowhere, everything ran more than fine before, I rechecked all my graphic board settings...reinstalled DX 9 from a game cd and still I get that stutter...of course I cant play like this...fluid gameplay is a must in this game.

Anyway has any idea on what is causing this and what I should do?

Would appreciate any help.

P.S: Im running version 7.51.

 

[bluhagin]

maybe you have a weak graphics card.. if so, try to dumb down the graphics a bit and take off some of the shading or things u dont need.. if this doenst work try to make the battle scale thing an minimum

 

[Fenril]

maybe you have a weak graphics card.. if so, try to dumb down the graphics a bit and take off some of the shading or things u dont need.. if this doenst work try to make the battle scale thing an minimum

Problem is I ran it fine with decent settings for a long time. Like I said It started happening out of nowhere. I have 2.8 ghz rig with 1 gig of RAM, I do have a very weak graphic card though, a radeon 9600.

 

[Fenril]

I think I found the problem..it has nothing to do with graphics...its something with the sound...I ran it with sound and music disabled and It ran smoothly...Anyone has any idea on what the problem is and what should I do?

 

[Fenril]

Nevermind it was indeed a problem with sound. Something about my driver not supporting something. I disabled acceleration on DirectX and it runs fine now.

 

[Archonsod]

You can check for updated soundcard drivers. If it's just an onboard card your probably better off just leaving it a no acceleration though.