Quick Quesrtion about Hiccups...

[Menoch 335]

Seeing as how a lot of you guys are computer savvy, I am having a recurring issue some of you might be able to help me with.

Every once in a while, my computer hiccups... meaning that the graphics seem to jump backwards a split second, skip, or otherwise driving me flunking insane! Any ideas as to what may be causing this? There are no other programs (that I am aware of) initiated, ie: no updates, no system scans for antivirus, etc... It will sometimes go all day long, no matter how many times I restart the machine, and sometimes (like yesterday) it is fine...

I have:

Alienware Andromeda_R5

Intel® Core™ i7-2600 CPU @ 3.4 Ghz

8.00 GB of Ram

Windows 7 64 bit OS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 graphics card

My monitor is a 42 inch Sanyo Plasma Flatscreen ( in case ).

Sorry to not be on topic with TFC, but it is interfering with my TFC game-play, so relevance is somewhat ... on topic.

Thank you for any and all suggestions...

Menoch

PS: I apparently do not know how to spell question. (That is a silent R)

[Wicc3R1 36]

i think its vanilla MC issue i have too sometimes :/ i know serverr lag can cause this too, but this happens at SSP too.

You have set Nvidia control panel=threading to off, whats your MC video options? You wanna get vsync or max FPS there. And advaced Opengl=off

[Menoch 335]

No it happens when I view the forums, when I am doing whatever on any other program, etc...

[Wicc3R1 36]

You mean hicups happen with all programs??

[Menoch 335]

Yes. Even when nothing is running and I am moving the mouse around....

[Leosallespoli 338]

Do you have java x64?

[Wicc3R1 36]

You have updated all drivers? motherboard, videoacard etc...?

[yubyub96 68]

i suggest you to defrag your Harddrive, i had a similar problem(with AMD processors and ATI card) and i downloaded a program called game booster, awesome program, and i defraged my Hard drive and it went much better. You can use CCleaner too.

PS: if you use CCleaner be sure to uncheck all the things you wish to keep ( passwords on interntet, cookies,etc)

[Leosallespoli 338]

i suggest you to defrag your Harddrive, i had a similar problem(with AMD processors and ATI card) and i downloaded a program called game booster, awesome program, and i defraged my Hard drive and it went much better. You can use CCleaner too.

PS: if you use CCleaner be sure to uncheck all the things you wish to keep ( passwords on interntet, cookies,etc)

People still do that?!?!?

[renadi 258]

eh, depends, it doesn't hurt to do it ever, but 99% of the time provides no benefit.

CCleaner in general though is nice, it's good at keeping stuff you don't need on your computer gone, I recently did it on someone else's computer who didn't have it previously and it removed I think 8GB's worth of junk.

[Menoch 335]

HD 4% fragmented. All cookies, passwords, and cache cleared. Could it be my video card isn't seated tightly? I don't know what else to do.

[Wicc3R1 36]

Do you have latest video card drivers? http://www.nvidia.com/object/win8-win7-winvista-32bit-306.97-whql-driver.html here if neeted

[Menoch 335]

Still didn't work. I'm just going to get out a sledge hammer and "fix" it cuz this is driving me stooooopid!

[puxapuak 232]

Still didn't work. I'm just going to get out a sledge hammer and "fix" it cuz this is driving me stooooopid!

I think it's your vid card drivers for Windows - or at least some kind of interaction between the two. Mainly I'm saying this because I had the same issue under Win7 (as do a lot of people running 500series NVidia). Once I switched to Ubuntu, I no longer had hiccups at all. I don't really recommend a switch to linux unless you are already familiar with it and have surrogates apps for what you need, but it is one solution. (Linux has its own issues with NVidia though - namely they do an ass job of the linux drivers. They're functional, but you don't have a lot of control.)

Either that or go for a new vid card. Kind of a pricey fix though.