Is this stuttering normal?

A lot of my games will stutter just a little bit, especially as I enter a new area of the game, like go from outside into a house.

So like in HL2 Deathmatch, the game will start and I will go forward and turn a corner and the game will stutter. The next corner I turn the game will stutter again. But after a minute or so once I have seen the whole level, the game does not stutter at all. Is this normal?

and it's not because it is multiplayer, I have this problem offline too

EDIT: Here is a video. The video is kinda low fps, but watch the whole thing and notice how much faster the "ride back" is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=579GRImZTtc

A lot of my games will stutter just a little bit, especially as I enter a new area of the game, like go from outside into a house.

So like in HL2 Deathmatch, the game will start and I will go forward and turn a corner and the game will stutter. The next corner I turn the game will stutter again. But after a minute or so once I have seen the whole level, the game does not stutter at all. Is this normal?

and it's not because it is multiplayer, I have this problem offline too.

Bullet_Holes

I have 4gb ram, I have already replaced my gpu because I thought that would fix it, and I have had this problem with both the current gpu drivers and the ones from a month ago.Bullet_Holes

What graphics card do you have?Einhanderkiller

hd4850

have you tried updating your motherboards drivers??? cause that is the consistancy here, motherboard, processor, or a corrupt harddrive...Lach0121

Yeah I have the latest motherboard drivers. And is there anyway I can figure out if it is the motherboard, processor, or a corrupt harddrive without replacing all of them?

I have 4gb ram, I have already replaced my gpu because I thought that would fix it, and I have had this problem with both the current gpu drivers and the ones from a month ago.Bullet_Holes

32-bit or 64-bit OS?

[QUOTE="Einhanderkiller"]What graphics card do you have?Bullet_Holes

hd4850

have you tried updating your motherboards drivers??? cause that is the consistancy here, motherboard, processor, or a corrupt harddrive...Lach0121

Yeah I have the latest motherboard drivers. And is there anyway I can figure out if it is the motherboard, processor, or a corrupt harddrive without replacing all of them?

Any idea how I can tell what is causing the problem?

Also, I don't know if this helps anyone know what part is the problem, but it is very difficult to record my games with fraps. Often times it will cause the fps of games to go down to something around 50, but despite the fact that it shows 50 fps, there is stuttering like crazy and it is as if it is going at 5 fps.

Any idea how I can tell what is causing the problem?

Also, I don't know if this helps anyone know what part is the problem, but it is very difficult to record my games with fraps. Often times it will cause the fps of games to go down to something around 50, but despite the fact that it shows 50 fps, there is stuttering like crazy and it is as if it is going at 5 fps.

Bullet_Holes

Fraps often causes games to stutter, as well as lose FPS. So if you have that on all the time... GoogleHoo

[QUOTE="GoogleHoo"]Fraps often causes games to stutter, as well as lose FPS. So if you have that on all the time... Lach0121

Here is a video. The video is sort of a at low fps, but watch the whole thing and notice how much smoother the "ride back" is

Is your ram perhaps severely underclocked or running with a weird multiplier?

Judging from the video, this isn't a direct hardware problem at all. This is how your machine is reading the information. Once it's loaded it's been cached and ready for use when it needs it again. To help with this defrag your HD (I recommend JKDefrag), clean up unused registry files (CCleaner), and just generally keep your computer neat and tidy. Within HL2 there are commands to load everything you need pre-game, I believe it's cl_forcepreload (or something to that effect). It will cause longer load times (not really noticeable), but lessen the strain on the HD for reading information. Don't go out and buy new hardware.

Your HD and OS decide what file is used more frequently then others, so it stores them in places that it can access them the fastest.

Ok I did that think with Half Life and it definetely helped, but it still happened. I'd come to a corner, and it stutters.

My hdd is defragmented automatically every wednesday, so I don't think that has much to do with it. And I have been having this problem since I first got my computer a month ago, so I don't think the registry has anything to do with it either.