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  If you get skipping, you can try lowering your texture detail if it's cranked all the way up. If that do... : garymct
  • My hitching was fixed by turning off my gpu's oc'ing. FX-55 6800 Ultra Asus A8V 1 GB OCZ Plat. Rev ... : Stangs44
  • 9800 pro 256 meg so full detail textures should be no prob...but it skips every so often...i know for a f... : flasher 907
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    I was skipping a bunch even when I'd have around 80fps solid inside. I just turned my rate up to 25000 f... : Eclipse^
    • how do you do this?? : Busta J
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      What rate are you talking about here? : unlurker
      • Yeh having to log in to some overloaded service just to play a game that is installed and sitting on your... : gavinjcd
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    Gary, could u help me out? I'm not sure if i need a new CPU/mobo 1.5 Ghz P4 512MB Nvdia 6800 (regular... : jazz_uc
    • try changing the fov in the game to something like 90 for sickness, rosewood was having the same problem.... : Busta J
  • Hey Gary, how about disabling the steam sharing when you are actually playing the game. I mean its alr... : disc
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    On second thought, before lowering the texture detail, lower your sound quality. This has fixed the skipping problem for a lot of people without a noticable loss in sound quality. The loss of texture detail will be much more noticable.
    
    -Gary McTaggart (Valve)
    

    Nov 16, 2004 8:53pm CST
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    On second thought, before lowering the texture detail, lower your sound quality. This has fixed the ski... : garymct
    • How does this effect gameplay? Less sounds, lower bitrate, fewer channels, exactly what does it do? : Carfaz11
    • Excellent! Lowering the sound quality from High to Medium basically solved the stuttering issue for me. : samb
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    Thanks for the response, it's pretty cool to see you guys doing tech support so late, heh : j33uk
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      I have an ATI x800 pro 256mb of DDR3 ram, and a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Gamer. I run the game on rec... : firefighter1983
      • similar position... at this point i agree, its probably the game :( : jojomcbobo
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        It has to be the game. I gets the same stuttering when playing HL:Source and we all know that 90% of the ... : bstrad
        • I pulled my Audigy 2 in favor of my onboard Realtek ALC850 chip, and get the same stuttering problems. T... : fraeone
        • Its true i ran doom 3 much better. where to begin 1. No matter what setting of vieo i run the game a... : mimehand
• I dont know......a wee bit disappointed. I am running an Athlon 2500 not o/c'ed, 1.5 gig pc2700ddr and... : jinjur