Do your driving games stutter?

[b6gm6n]

Hi folks...

This thread if it ever gets off the ground will be all about games that STUTTER!
You know what i mean... 3D shooters or Driving games that Stutter during play...Ruins the enjoyment of the game slightly and can be very annoying...

Now I've been around the web and searched various forums and posts etc to find this is a very common problem... I've also gathered some information on how to reduce this problem...sadly for me the problem remains, but i want to share with you my thoughts and tips & tricks to hopefully attract other users experiencing this problem with a view to amassing a more ideas to this very annoying problem.

My rig is this, Running Vista32 (DX10) 3 gig ram, decent NVidia Motherboard with an NV8800GTX graphics card and a Sound Blaster-XFI extreme sound card... sounds ok and in fact it is ok... bar this stuttering problem on some games... I know your rig might be very different but even so... i hope we can improved upon things...especially gaming.

The outline of my problem (is the same as most it seems) stuttering as the game loads extra information during play.... for example driving games... as you drive faster the stuttering becomes worse as the game loads in the background objects for the next part of the track...this is my main problem, games do run beautifully on my system...but driving games seem to be the bain of my life...

Having an 8800GTX handles everything wonderfully... i played Lost Planet DX10 and it was superb throughout... any driving game though...looks great, but stutters...

Many have said this is due to the hard drive being not able to be read fast enough to pump everything into memory, could be... i have a SATA 7200rpm drive... well formatted NTFS, everything enabled (advanced performance, write caching etc)

I've tried games with the sound off/on less detail/maxed... same thing, drivers checked, processes and services off... no anti-virus running etc, USB devices unplugged... I've no swap file on my vista machine i turned that off because of my memory being over 2 gig, everything runs great...other demos do look and run well... i just wondered if you have heard of anything more on this or found a solution yourself?

Would love to discuss this...