James770

Ive had this problem for about 3weeks now where during gameplay my PC stutters badly for 10-30 seconds. It varies in time. The sound also goes choppy. Now Ive owned this PC for two years and have never had this problem before. The computer is of good spec, and has never had issues with the games Im playing. I believe this problem is to do with the graphics card, but I cannot figure out what I need to do to fix it. This stuttering began after I updated the video and sound drivers and messed around with the Graphics card settings. But Ive restored the default settings and I have uninstalled both the drivers and re installed the drivers off the disk and the problem still persists. Also, Ive run the games with the sound card disabled and the stuttering was still there. Ive tested the PC with the start up disabled, stuttering still there. And Ive done the obvious disk clean up and defrag. Still no help. Interestingly I noticed that turning on SLI increased the stuttering. Tho turning it off doesn't remove the problem. So now Ive exhausted all possible options that I can think of. Does anyone know on a possible solution for this? OS - Vista Home Premium Processor - Intel Core Quad Q9450 Graphics Card - (x2) NVIDIA Geforce 9800 GT Sound - Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio Ram 4.00GB The games Ive been playing are Medieval TW, Left for Dead and Dragon Age Origins.