Solved: Character stutter in Extreme Quality but not Balanced

[Wilin]

<p>So, I have a new system. I don't have the DirectX info yet but I thought I would throw this out to see if anyone knew the solution offhand. When I'm in Balanced profile in game, it seems to run fine although I haven't had much time with it yet. But when I switch to Extreme Quality and run, my character runs normally for a second, stutters for a quarter of a second, then moves forward faster than normal for a quarter of a second, then runs normally for a second and this repeats.</p><p>Any hints? Is the AMD dual core optimizer still needed nowadays?</p><p>AMD64 x2 5600+ nForce chipset Geforce 7900 GT 3GB DDR2-5300 Vista Home Premium 32bit</p><p>My older system with much slower Intel Pentium-D, 2GB DDR2-4200, XP Home, and same video card did not have this problem.</p><p>Thanks</p>

[Wilin]

<p>So far through tons of reading, it seems that I'm not the only one having this problem but I've seen no direct resolutions to the problem. The suggestions so far are:</p><p>- Turn off Complex Shaders(Why? My slower system did not have to do this)</p><p>- Install the AMD dual core optimizer. (This was from older posts. Is this still an issue with the newer AMD chips?)</p><p>- Turn on vsync and triple buffering on the client (Easy enough to try)</p><p>I should also note that I'm playing in fullscreen in 16xx X 10xx resolution on a LG 24" widescreen LCD if that helps.</p>

[Tebos]

<cite>Wilin wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>So far through tons of reading, it seems that I'm not the only one having this problem but I've seen no direct resolutions to the problem. The suggestions so far are:</p><p>- Turn off Complex Shaders(Why? My slower system did not have to do this)</p><p>- Install the AMD dual core optimizer. (This was from older posts. Is this still an issue with the newer AMD chips?)</p><p>- Turn on vsync and triple buffering on the client (Easy enough to try)</p><p>I should also note that I'm playing in fullscreen in 16xx X 10xx resolution on a LG 24" widescreen LCD if that helps.</p></blockquote><p>First of all, only a select few experience these type of issue's at any given point in time, and since the introduction of the game.</p><p>Turning off Complex Shaders will help narrow down the issue for us.</p><p>Visit the AMD website in determining whether the newer multi-core processor's are needing the optimizer.</p><p>DO NOT enable Vsync and Triple Buffering. Those settings are for CRT based monitor's and you have an LCD Flat Panel. You should also try setting your Windows desktop and in-game screen resolution to the native setting of 1920 x 1200 instead of the 1680 x 1050 setting, if that is what the LG comes as. My Dell 24" comes default of 1920 x 1200 resolution.</p><p>Report back with your findings.</p>

[Wilin]

<p>I couldn't find anything on the AMD web site. But, I went ahead and installed the dual core optimizer and it fixed the stutter issue. I still had a couple graphic glitches that occured but that was while I was trying other things so hopefully all is well now.</p>