Random Lag?

[Mr Buckshot]

Don't go TOO high with the 7300 GT. My 7600 GT gets under 10 fps at times on the best settings at 1680x1050 res.

[Draclan12]

Don't go TOO high with the 7300 GT. My 7600 GT gets under 10 fps at times on the best settings at 1680x1050 res.

Yea, I went from the lowest settings to the highest, I still got the random lag each time I tried...

Now what can I do?

[Syuusuke]

The point is to NOT go on highest.

You said Fraps works right? What framerate do you get?

Also, I don't remember if adding -vsync to the Target line works...try going into NVidia properties and see if you can set Vsync to Always on?

[Draclan12]

The point is to NOT go on highest.

You said Fraps works right? What framerate do you get?

Also, I don't remember if adding -vsync to the Target line works...try going into NVidia properties and see if you can set Vsync to Always on?

Yea, Fraps works. This is what I get as for the framerate on the main menu.

Detail | AA....... | Framerate
Low.... Disabled.. 30-44
Low.... 2........... 27-35
Low.... 4........... 26-35
Med.... Disabled.. 28-41
Med.... 2........... 23-37
Med.... 4........... 22-35
High.... Disabled.. 27-35
High.... 2........... 25-32
High.... 2........... 24-30

Whenever the lag strikes the framerate goes down to 2-6...

Before when I was still using an integrated video card it was just like how it is when the lag strikes... Do you think my video card I bought and put in is loose or something?

Oh, and its not -vsync, its -novsync... I found it on a page on M$.

[Vicky]

Do you have a lot of HD activity when the lag strikes?

[Syuusuke]

Oh lag spikes...

A number of things could be happening, one of them is what Vicky mentioned, HD activity?

Background applications is usually bad, you do have enough memory, but try to rid unneeded apps.

[Draclan12]

I really don't have anything installed on my Vista though, probably because I don't like it much, so there isn't many programs that could be running while I play...

And I don't have anything running on start up...

Next time I play, I'll look if there is lots of activity...

[Caboose O'Malley]

When you get the random lag attacks, ALT+TAB out of the game and open the Task Manager (Right-Click on the Taskbar and select it) Now hit the "Show processes from all users" button and see if there's a program other than Halo 2 that's using a lot of CPU power. Then attempt to close it
NOTE, if it's Trustedinstaller.exe then you need to shut down the updating service through the Service Control Panel (Start->Run->Services.msc)

Also Read the Sticky PROPERLY and post a PROPER DXDIAG.

[johnnyblaz20]

I had the same problem too when i first started playing. What fixed my problem was installing vista on a clean partition. Before i just upgraded to vista from xp and it caused many problems. So if you didnt install vista on a clean partition and did upgrade from xp thats probably your problem. Or obviously hardware could be a problem.

p.s. I've found 4gigs of ram is the sweet spot for halo 2. now my fps floats around 50-60 on max settings. No spikes unless the server is slow.

[Knight]

The 7300 GT shouldn't run the game very well at all, but due to the pixel pipelines and memory bus width, it could quite, run the game with a decent amount of FPS.

Few simple theories:

-Update Drivers for all hardware
-The card can well overheat* (I've had too many experiences with this) and the card will either: a. Lag for quite a while or b. Shutdown the system due to a thermal event
-Get some sort of overclocking tool (ATITool, Riva Tuner) and try turning the Fan up to 100% and see if the card experiences any random lag* (Relates to above theory)

There are many problems that can relate to the random lagginess. These are just some simple theories