Ok so I disabled my Avira AV, my windows firewall, ran the game as admin, this still occurs.

Went online to check for my sound driver, downloaded a slightly more recent version of it, still doesn't work.

I did turn down the setting, in fact, the only game which doesn't seem to experience the studders is Mafia2, although the framrate is slightly lower than that of Modern Warfare 2. Even older games like Age of Empires 3 studders!

How do I disable integration?

Thanks for any help!

Hello guys, recently purchaseda new HP Dv7t laptop. Its brand new, when I say recent it means last week.

Anyway, I installed a few games, UT3, CODMW1 and 2, The Witcher, and Mafia 2 (which I recenly bought, superb game). I began having these random "studders" during gameplay, noticeably playing COD since its fast paced and any slow-down you experience becomes really annoying. I can run almost every game on max (except Bad Company 2, that game on high chews my computer up a bit) in smooth framerate but these silly studders are beginning to really piss me off. One second the game is smooth as it can be, the next second it freezes for a split usually 1-2 seconds or shorter.

I've researched tons of places, and did almost everything I can (except reinstalling windows7, which HP conveniently did not supply a re-install disk), all my drivers are fresh-updated from the box, I mean I only bought this laptop like a week ago. I clicked on update anyway just for argument sake and watched it say "your blah blah is already recent" or something like that.

Many people say this and that but what I noticed is that the sound tends to get really screwed up the split second before these heart-attacks and the studders tend to be worst when NPCs are talking. Sometimes, only the background or ambient sounds can be heard while others are silent. I mean, even friggin Age of Empires 3 studders, and I even put all of them at low settings and this still happens!

Oh before I forget, here is my spec.

HP Pavilion Dv7, 1TB HDD (only 5400, could that be the problem? Nah, I had computers which are way worst play AoE3 smoothly), 4gb DDR3 Ram, CoreI7 1.6GHz, ATI Mobility HD 5650, anything else you need to know? Its not that best machine but I expect it to run at least AoE3 and CODMW1 alright...When I goto Systemrequirement place, my specs usually top out the games I want to play.

Now I am convinced this has something to do with my Audio, I don't have a sound card (I don't believe I do anyway), under device manager all it says is ATI High Def Audio Device and IDT high Def Audio CODEC (yes, I did update their drivers, they both came back already recent). For some reason the only game which does not experience too much sudder is Mafia2, which I run a little under max settings.

Anybody else having the same issue? Please don't tell me to upgrade my drivers and such...=)

Thanks for any comments!

oops forgot to mention, I have Win7 home. Sorry keep forgetting details, I heard from some forums that Win7 ecurity settings and antivir and firewall might cause this. Disabling them doesn't help, and running the games in Admin doesn't help either...

Hey fellas

Any game recs for me and my buds? We've been playing R6V2, Gears, some DOTA, NWN2 and other games but are looking for some more recent titles to play...co-op would be cool but competitive is fine, as long as it works on LAN its good for me.

Thanks for any recs!

Derg

Hey fellows, anybody know some good RECENT RPG games? I say recent because whenever I ask this people give me the same old answers...Diablo, Sacred, NWN, Titan Quest, etc..

Anyone knowsome more recent ones that we can LAN together? Computer reqs are not an issue.

Thanks alot!

Heya guys!

Anyway, I have a pretty old (3 year old) laptop with just enough RAM (1GB) to run some relatively modern games. Recently I purchased Resident Evil 5, Borderlands for the PC. I was very happy untill after installing RE5, and it tells me to go get a graphics card that can handle Pixel Shader 3.0 or go screw myself...

So, I was told that laptop graphics cards are a pain in the ass to replace, then I googled around and found graphic "adapters" that plug into you laptop USB ports and act just like a graphics card! Does that sound too good to be true?

SO my question is, does such a thing exist? I really do not want to buy another laptop, and to play some of these games I must have a graphics card capable of handling Pixel Shader 3 (mine's 2.0).

Any solutions?

As a side note, my friend with a very similar laptop with mine, is able to play Modern Warfare 2 without a graphics card! I mean he has this mobile intel 4 series express chipset family thing and when he tested it it said it had 772MB with Pixel Shader 4.0...WTH? I mean, would his laptop be able to handle RE5?

I actually don't quite care about RE5, I just want to play Borderlands =P...I know the minimum requirement needs 3.0 (provided by systemrequirementslab...I know they are wrong sometimes), but CoD4MW2 also said 3.0 but his laptop can run it!

Is there ANY way?

Hey everybody, I just recently read a guide on how to make UT3 playable with 4 player splitscreen and I have some questions before I spend money buying Unreal Tournament. My PC can run well with touch games and my monitor is big enough to support splitscreen. I have 3 Logitech Dual Action Gamepads (they're cheap but pretty reliable) and I was wondering if they would work just as well. How would I configure the buttons for them once I setup splitscreen??

Thanks for any info

WQ

Hey guys, recent events forced me to buy 3 gamepads, so I bought 3 budget priced Logitech Dual Action gamepad for my PC games. As I'm configuring the gamepad controls for Serious Sam (great game for 4 players!), I realized that the D-pad (which is located furthest left on the gamepad) buttons are exactly the same as the left analog stick! pointing the left analog up is labeled as "Joystick Button X" (cant remember wat number) and pointing the left D-pad up is also labeled as "Joystick Button X". Is this how a gamepad is suppose to function? They both function exactly the same! How (if possible) can I separate them into two distinct functions? (some games like Marvel UA require alot of buttons)

The gamepad also have a "mode" button that switches between the left analog stick and the D-pad, but it doesnt help as pressing it switches the left analog stick off completely, making the D-pad the functioning unit.

Thanks for any help!

WQ

Anybody know a good vs fighting game for PC? Wish they releases soul calibur for pc...

Thanks!

WQ

Hey everyone, I got some really nice pc offline multiplayer game suggestions from you all, thanks!

I was just thinking, I used to play this sidescroller airplane shoot'em up game called demonstar (or somefing like that) and it is a blast to play with my cousin (really, most games, even crappy ones are good with other people). My question is, are there any good (I know the japanese make good airplane-sidescroller shoot'em up games) sidescroller shooting games for MORE than 2 players?

If not, are there any sidescroller games in general for multiplayer offline on a pc with gamepads? Like those fighting games similar to double dragon (old skool)

Thanks again!

WQ

Edit: Also, what is a good fighting game (like street fighters or Mugen or sould calibur) for PC with 2-4 player versus?