Tired of Win95 jerkiness!

Okay, I've finally had it! I bought a new machine a couple of months ago and have been playing F1RS (v1.09), the GPL demo, and MTM2 as my first forays into Win95 sims. The problem is, sandwiched between my 30+fps are the much talked about Win 95 jerks and pauses. I get about one per lap in F1RS, some worse than others, and an occasional (but less severe than F1RS) jerk in GPL. MTM2 also does it a little also. I've tried seemingly everything. I've read David Greene's FAQ for F1RS and tried all of that plus other stuff (permanent swap files, vcache changes, empty system tray etc. etc.) and just can't get perfectly smooth ALL the time like the old DOS sims (makes me want to go back to N2 and ICR2 sometimes) which really pisses me off after spending all that money on a new system. Here's my system specs: P2-400MHz Intel Motherboard 4MB STB Velocity 12MB Diamond Monster 3D2 (clock speed in middle of slider) 128MB - 100MHz RAM 11.5GB (8GB free) hard drive Win 95 - OSR2 2XDVD If anybody has any ideas I would appreciate it immensely. Also, if anyone knows of a good site for tuning up Win95 for 3D ***, that might help also. One thing I was wondering was whether or not my Voodoo 2 card might be getting too hot. I have most of my slots filled up so air flow might not be good enough. I thought I remembered people talking about getting rid of jerkiness by cooling their cards down. I'm putting a nail in the wall to hang my Bill Gates dartboard while I wait for responses... Marty Fay

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> Okay, I've finally had it! I bought a new machine a couple of months ago and > have been playing F1RS (v1.09), the GPL demo, and MTM2 as my first forays into > Win95 sims. The problem is, sandwiched between my 30+fps are the much talked > about Win 95 jerks and pauses. I get about one per lap in F1RS, some worse > than others, and an occasional (but less severe than F1RS) jerk in GPL. MTM2 > also does it a little also. I've tried seemingly everything. I've read David > Greene's FAQ for F1RS and tried all of that plus other stuff (permanent swap > files, vcache changes, empty system tray etc. etc.) and just can't get > perfectly smooth ALL the time like the old DOS sims (makes me want to go back > to N2 and ICR2 sometimes) which really pisses me off after spending all that > money on a new system. Here's my system specs: > P2-400MHz Intel Motherboard > 4MB STB Velocity > 12MB Diamond Monster 3D2 (clock speed in middle of slider) > 128MB - 100MHz RAM > 11.5GB (8GB free) hard drive > Win 95 - OSR2 > 2XDVD > If anybody has any ideas I would appreciate it immensely. Also, if anyone > knows of a good site for tuning up Win95 for 3D ***, that might help also. > One thing I was wondering was whether or not my Voodoo 2 card might be getting > too hot. I have most of my slots filled up so air flow might not be good > enough. I thought I remembered people talking about getting rid of jerkiness > by cooling their cards down. > I'm putting a nail in the wall to hang my Bill Gates dartboard while I wait for > responses... > Marty Fay

Have you tried going to System Properties and set the CD ROM to no read ahead, and then move the slider all the way to the left (min cache)? Cause I have heard that this will fix some jerkiness in CD games due to the fact that the files on a CD are not quite lined up right for read ahead caching, and that the cache size is too small anyway to help buffer the data. -- ??? ,,, ???(o o) o00o-(_)-o00o Mike Z was here! Remove *** to reply

I had a similar problem after installing MS Office. Office installed FindFast. This stupid little program is supposed to periodically scan your hard drive for documents so it can build up an index. During GP2 it would decide to go ahead and search my disk of course wrecking my race. It's simple - take it out of the StartUp folder If thats the problem - it may be this simple - not a hardware prob j

Before you run your game, make sure nothing is running in the background. Do a CTL-ALT-DEL and select "End task" for each item in the list except Explorer and Systray. You need to do this for each item in the list: CTL-ALT-DEL Select item in list Click the "End Task" button Some items will not disapear right away. It will take a little time, it may even ask you for confirmation to end the task. Just get it so the only things in the list are Explorer and Systray. Hope this helps, Paul -------------------------------------- To reply by email, please take out the words REMOVETHIS from my email address

If it seems to happen about every 60 seconds or so you probably have TCP/IP installed in networking and it goes out and searches for a DHCP server every 60 seconds. This usually only happens if you have a Network card in your machine. You can fix this by removing TCP/IP from the Network card (not a good ideal if you are using the Network card for Internet, probably not unless you are connecting with ISDN or cable modem) or you can request a static IP from your ISP if you are using the Network card or you can create a profile that disables the Network card for gameplay (probably the easiest). If you have any specific questions about this, feel free to e-mail me. This really sounds like the problem you are having. Hope this helps, Chris

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>Before you run your game, make sure nothing is running in the >background. >Do a CTL-ALT-DEL and select "End task" for each item in the list >except Explorer and Systray. > You need to do this for each item in the list: > CTL-ALT-DEL > Select item in list > Click the "End Task" button >Some items will not disapear right away. It will take a little time, >it may even ask you for confirmation to end the task. Just get it so >the only things in the list are Explorer and Systray. >Hope this helps, >Paul >>Okay, I've finally had it! I bought a new machine a couple of months ago

and >>have been playing F1RS (v1.09), the GPL demo, and MTM2 as my first forays into >>Win95 sims. The problem is, sandwiched between my 30+fps are the much talked >>about Win 95 jerks and pauses. I get about one per lap in F1RS, some worse >>than others, and an occasional (but less severe than F1RS) jerk in GPL. MTM2 >>also does it a little also. I've tried seemingly everything. I've read David >>Greene's FAQ for F1RS and tried all of that plus other stuff (permanent swap >>files, vcache changes, empty system tray etc. etc.) and just can't get >>perfectly smooth ALL the time like the old DOS sims (makes me want to go back >>to N2 and ICR2 sometimes) which really pisses me off after spending all that

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>>money on a new system. Here's my system specs: >>P2-400MHz Intel Motherboard >>4MB STB Velocity >>12MB Diamond Monster 3D2 (clock speed in middle of slider) >>128MB - 100MHz RAM >>11.5GB (8GB free) hard drive >>Win 95 - OSR2 >>2XDVD >>If anybody has any ideas I would appreciate it immensely. Also, if anyone >>knows of a good site for tuning up Win95 for 3D ***, that might help

also. >>One thing I was wondering was whether or not my Voodoo 2 card might be getting >>too hot. I have most of my slots filled up so air flow might not be good >>enough. I thought I remembered people talking about getting rid of jerkiness >>by cooling their cards down. >>I'm putting a nail in the wall to hang my Bill Gates dartboard while I wait for

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>>responses... >>Marty Fay >-------------------------------------- >To reply by email, please take out the >words REMOVETHIS from my email address

Thanks for the responses guys. I always "ctrl-alt-del" and end all tasks except Explorer and Systray so that isn't the problem. Chris' answer might actually be it since I do have one of those Gamelan parallel port network adapters networked to my old computer. I have a multiple boot configuration so that the Gamelan isn't active when I normally boot up but I'll definitely have to investigate this angle thoroughly. Thanks again, Marty Fay

I think the TCP pause is every 5.5 minutes. Do you have a permanent swap file? of >Marty Fay