Asus CG5270 model;
8 gigs of ram
Intel Core 2 Quad, Q8300@ 2.5ghz.
n9400 video card running 8.17.12.5896 drivers. (low power card, no extra power to it)
Win 7 home premium x64 (windows update says Im good for patches and so on)
No RAIDs, no interesting shenanigans, no overclocking, no custom hardware.
it freezes. tiny little freezes, like... a second or two long to start, building to 3 or 4 second long freezes. as its starting to do this, you can hear the CPU fan idle _down_ and running CPU and network monitor widgets shows that the CPU load basically stops and the network activity drops. eventually it'll go for a long freeze, like 10 seconds or so, and then it'll be fine again for another hour. the whole miserable cycle lasts for maybe 40 seconds.
there's no heavy hard drive activity. usually I'm playing a game or watching a movie. back when it was just movies, I assumed it was some sort of codec issue, which I _thought_ Id resolved, but Im still getting these annoying little freezey sessions in games.
Ive tried the things I know how to: Ive updated drivers, Ive gone looking for conflicts, defragged relevant drives, ran malware and viruscheckers to no avail, and booted the system up into a no-BS, no extraneous processes, applications, or services mode and it still happens. Edit to add; dicking with Core assignments doesnt seem to affect it either.
also also; its a selective freeze. animations still play out on screen; god rays are still shining, water animations keep pretending to be water, but it wont take any new input and anything complex (a moving actor, a changing shadow) will be frozen. So Im farily sure its not the graphics _directly_. sound is likewise not an issue, no stuhstuhstuhstuttering of sound in games (although it stuttered right along with movies)
halp?
8 gigs of ram
Intel Core 2 Quad, Q8300@ 2.5ghz.
n9400 video card running 8.17.12.5896 drivers. (low power card, no extra power to it)
Win 7 home premium x64 (windows update says Im good for patches and so on)
No RAIDs, no interesting shenanigans, no overclocking, no custom hardware.
it freezes. tiny little freezes, like... a second or two long to start, building to 3 or 4 second long freezes. as its starting to do this, you can hear the CPU fan idle _down_ and running CPU and network monitor widgets shows that the CPU load basically stops and the network activity drops. eventually it'll go for a long freeze, like 10 seconds or so, and then it'll be fine again for another hour. the whole miserable cycle lasts for maybe 40 seconds.
there's no heavy hard drive activity. usually I'm playing a game or watching a movie. back when it was just movies, I assumed it was some sort of codec issue, which I _thought_ Id resolved, but Im still getting these annoying little freezey sessions in games.
Ive tried the things I know how to: Ive updated drivers, Ive gone looking for conflicts, defragged relevant drives, ran malware and viruscheckers to no avail, and booted the system up into a no-BS, no extraneous processes, applications, or services mode and it still happens. Edit to add; dicking with Core assignments doesnt seem to affect it either.
also also; its a selective freeze. animations still play out on screen; god rays are still shining, water animations keep pretending to be water, but it wont take any new input and anything complex (a moving actor, a changing shadow) will be frozen. So Im farily sure its not the graphics _directly_. sound is likewise not an issue, no stuhstuhstuhstuttering of sound in games (although it stuttered right along with movies)
halp?
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