Curse

Lord Sojar · May 28, 2008, 09:42 AM // 09:42

I must agree with kamatsu, time to stop fighting kids. If you don't have a real solution or possibility for this poor soul, please don't post your inner arguments with each other in some mindless fashion to assert intelligence. You are both wrong, and you are both fired. Moving on.....

To your problem. I need one test run, and only one test run. I have a very likely hunch, but I can't prove it to the skeptics without a "proper" test.

(WORD OF WARNING: Do not use this command unless you have been specifically told to by a professional in the IT industry, specifically a PhD certified one)

Vaper, do the following and do not mess up a single step, follow it to the letter.

Download CPU Rightmark Lite 2005. It is midway down the page, found here:
http://cpu.rightmark.org/download.shtml

Unzip Rightmark to your desktop.

Close as many programs as you can, including your anti virus, anti spyware, music, internet, everything. Just have explorer.exe open and any of the small unimportant taskbar programs are fine. You might need to print what I am typing here to remember it, because you shouldn't have the internet open while doing this.

Now, press your ALT key, and hold it down. Do not release it at any moment until you have finished the keystroke cycle I am about to tell you.

While holding alt, on your numberpad (make sure your numlock was already on before pressing ALT), enter the following in the exact order.

1 0 1 1 1 6 3 1 9 9 9 1 2

Now, hold CTRL down as well (you are still holding down ATL) and type the following into the exact order.

2 6 6 4 7 1 3

Now release CTRL button, and then, after totally releasing CTRL, release the ALT key. Nothing will happen, but you have engaged via Windows (this also works on any Linux distro) cache reuptake on the processor.

Now, open CPU Rightmark. Once you have the program open, please go over to the CPU Performance tab.

Select the following options (YOU MUST SELECT THESE EXACT OPTIONS)

Frame Size = 1024x768
Frame Buffer = Cached
Start frame = 100
Number of frames = 300

Physical Model = Model 5
Number of objects = 400
Number of lights = 6
Check ALL of the Image Rendering options: Shadows, textures, sky sphere, trilinear filtering.

Number of textures = 32

Solver Instruction Set = FPU ONLY

Renderer Instruction Set = FPU/MMX

Click Run, and run the program for 60 seconds. Watch for it to freeze (it may lockup your PC entirely) If it locks up, please post approx how long it took to do so.

If it stutters like your game does, please note that.

If it completes successfully a 60 second run, then your issue is software related, and you have nothing to worry about; a reinstall of Windows/Linux will fix it.

We will discuss the other alternatives if we must, but let us hope it isn't.