Sound/Video stuttering

[little P]

Ok, after more hours and hours of head scratching, I think I may have stumbled on what's causing this stuttering. It's driving me nuts. I've tried everything, uninstalling and reinstalling drivers, playing around with sound drivers, but even with sound disabled through bios I was still getting stuttering...

So I found this thing to monitor whilst I was watching some streaming media which is stuttering around all over the place. Every one of these spikes on that chart is when the stuttering happens. It's the only monitoring thing I can find where the spikes correspond to the sound and video stuttering...

Trouble is, I don't know what it means? Anyone have any ideas?

 

[little P]

I'm worried this might have something to do with the hard drive, as it's one of the brand new components...

 

[little P]

I just did a spybot and avg sweep, and found two trojans, they were removed, I thought maybe that might have been it, but alas the stuttering remains...

Anyone have any ideas?

 

[Kenadian]

Have you tried booting up in safe mode with networking and then watching a video to see if the stuttering is gone?

 

[little P]

Have you tried booting up in safe mode with networking and then watching a video to see if the stuttering is gone?

ill do that now and report back

 

[little P]

Ok so after reading you have to press f8, I did that, and all it does is give me a screen saying which device do I want to boot from and no other options like the one you are supposed to get. This pc is fighting me I swear to god.

 

[Shilka]

Do you have any virtual memory set up correctly? It's almost like you have a tiny swapfile causing your pc to write to your drive every second. Just a wild guess.

 

[little P]

I'm not going to lie to you Shilka, I have no idea what any of that means. How do I find that out?

Also, I have no idea how to boot into safe mode other than through msconfig and altering the boot option in there. But that boots with no sound or internet.

Holy balls!!

 

[Shilka]

Virtual memory is your pc using a part of your harddrive as memory when your memory sticks are all busy. Instead of storing data on your memory sticks it will write it to disk and read it again when needed for any process. Since using the harddisc as memory is way slower then using the memory sticks, it will try to write to disk the data that isn't often needed/changed. Anyway, try clicking the memory tab on your 'thingy to monitor' and it should probably say something about memory and virtual memory usage there.

I'm no pc guru, but wondering why your disk is being used so often made me think of virtual memory.

 

[Shilka]

Oh btw, found this guy having the same problem as you (stuttering in all games and video's), and his problem turned out to be a CPU overheating problem.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/359692-33-stuttering-problem-games-hd6870-dual

Perhaps see if you can check your CPU temperature? Perhaps the contact between the CPU and cooler went bad when you were (gently) installing things?

 

[little P]

Interesting reading...

Ok, it must be that then. My temps run into the high 60's. 68 when gaming. That fits in exactly with what's happening. Ok, well at least that issue should go away when I get d00key's CPU. Thanks Shilka for that, it's put my mind at rest for a bit anyway I mean I've just turned it on, and it hasn't done anything other than boot and browse to this page, and both cores are over 45 degrees. That can't be right.

I'm wondering if I need to invest in a new case to put all this stuff in. I think they are quite cheap too aren't they.