Stuttering Bug: AntiVirus Poll

Choose one: - Don't be intimidated :) -

  • I have Norton AV on autoprotect and get stuttering.

    Votes: 11 15.9%
  • I have Norton AV off of autoprotect and get stuttering.

    Votes: 4 5.8%
  • I have another AV on autoprotect and get stuttering.

    Votes: 3 4.3%
  • I have another AV off of autoprotect and get stuttering.

    Votes: 1 1.4%
  • I have no AV and get stuttering.

    Votes: 6 8.7%
  • I have Norton AV on autoprotect and get NO stuttering.

    Votes: 17 24.6%
  • I have Norton AV off of autoprotect and get NO stuttering

    Votes: 1 1.4%
  • I have another AV on autoprotect and get NO stuttering.

    Votes: 8 11.6%
  • I have another AV off of autoprotect and get NO stuttering.

    Votes: 1 1.4%
  • I have no AV and get NO stuttering.

    Votes: 17 24.6%

  • Total voters
    69

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Some people have the stuttering bug, and some people don't. This is the first in hopefully a series of polls trying to establish trends and get to the bottom of some solutions.

First on the list: AntiVirus software

(A poll will be created momentarily.)
 
I don't use one.

But, if I do, Macros online Housecall.

I get stuttering.
 
i don't think it is related to antivirus, shouldn't be that big of an issue.
However didn't they say it was related to SP2, i thought that I read that in the steam help.

I think the stuttering bug might be related to IDE drivers, because after I installed SP2 i suddenly had weird sound stuttering in some of my games and after days of looking for the reason, i changed my IDE drivers and that fixed it for me. Dunno if that will cut it for HL2 but you might as well give it a try.
 
buying another half a gig of ram fixed my stuttering woes.
 
Its pretty obviously RAM related, if I do a clean reboot and kill all the background stuff, HL2 runs very nicely.
 
gXxshock said:
i don't think it is related to antivirus, shouldn't be that big of an issue.
However didn't they say it was related to SP2, i thought that I read that in the steam help.

I think the stuttering bug might be related to IDE drivers, because after I installed SP2 i suddenly had weird sound stuttering in some of my games and after days of looking for the reason, i changed my IDE drivers and that fixed it for me. Dunno if that will cut it for HL2 but you might as well give it a try.

NAV ON and SP2 installed, no stuttering whatsoever.
 
Norton on and no stuttering at 512mb ram woot woot
 
i had very little stuttering (even on my 1.3ghz, 512 ram, 9000 pro comp with all settings lowest, but once i updated my sound drivers and reseted my comp (cuz ram memory was kinda high) it ran a smooth steady 30 fps
 
I have auto protect on and it stutters. I have Norton.
 
i thot this was about something else so i picked number 1... my game freezes every 2 minutes for like 2 seconds and continues, the sound doesn't stutter.
 
i have internet security and AV on auto protect on, and never have gotten studdering in any Source game

good idea with this post btw
 
As far as I know the only people having stuttering problems are people with poorly maintained systems or crap firewalls. Your own fault.
 
HalfLife2Addict said:
As far as I know the only people having stuttering problems are people with poorly maintained systems or crap firewalls. Your own fault.

Ahem. F**K Off! Don't start assuming that others who have this problem have poorly maintained systems (or do not know what they are doing) just because you do. I have had the stutter (since removed via the patch), on a VERY well maintained system. It was a clean install of XP PRO (done literally hours before the activation of HL2) with SP2 added immediately after install, I have a GOOD firewall/AV (Norton Internet Security 2004 -- all updated, and I got stuttering with both firewall and AV disabled and enabled so it is NOT this for my system).

I also do not have a "low level system" At the time, I had an Athlon FX, 2GB 3200 DDR, Radeon 9600XT, 2 SATA 7200 RMP HDD's in RAID 0, Soundblaster Audigy 2, and a 19" LCD Monitor -- running at 1280x1024 with all set to max, I used to get infrequent stuttering during play (NOT from autosave, which is a minor annoyance at best). Since the patch, this has resolved itself, and I am waiting to play again once I get my new video card (I sold my 9600XT, and got enough to by a 6800 GT). So please do not assume that this problem is limited to those who do not know what we are doing. Some of us build computers and/or write programs for a living, and know the O/S and Hardware way more in-depth than you, and yet have suffered from this.
 
NOD32 with full protection, no stuttering.

AMD 64 3000
6800 GT
1 gig geil value ram
80 gig 2mb cache samsung
Abit kv8pro
 
I almost never use AV software. If you are carefull about where you go and what you download, you really dont need it.

That being said, I had the small stuttering problem (occasional hiccups), which have been 90% eliminated from this last patch. I am very happy with HL2s preformance now.
 
f|uke said:
I almost never use AV software. If you are carefull about where you go and what you download, you really dont need it.

NOT True... MSblaster (and later variants on this theme) will find you without you downloading, or even opening an email program. All these new viruses require is that you have an open and unprotected internet connection (even dialup).

Either an Antivirus, OR a firewall will protect against these, so if you are going to fly without AV, make sure to have a firewall on at all times (I have seen an unwalled computer get infected in less than 5 minutes before -- and that was on dial-up!!). Even the Windows XP firewall will work (and the SP2 one is supposed to be better), but just make sure you have something if you have no antivirus software.
 
I have Kaspersky Personal with Autoprotect and get stuttering. My system is very very well maintained.

BTW This HalfLife2Addict is such a Turd. Posts stupid posts on loads of threads.
 
MajorPayne said:
NOT True... MSblaster (and later variants on this theme) will find you without you downloading, or even opening an email program. [...] Either an Antivirus, OR a firewall will protect against these, so if you are going to fly without AV, make sure to have a firewall on at all times (I have seen an unwalled computer get infected in less than 5 minutes before -- and that was on dial-up!!).
I do have a Linksys router with firewall :p

I just like to run as little memory resident software as possible.
 
Well, so much for the virus scan theory. From that poll, there is virtually no correlation whatsoever. I was curious, because AV was said to contribute to a similar issue in Unreal Tournament 2004. You know, over at those forums, there was a similar uprising against stuttering.
 
no antivirus protection at all (uninstalled to test,) but the stuttering remains. if anyone's wondering, play the game from the very beginning. i hear stuttering 4 times before even getting off the train into city 17. it happens at the same places every time.
 
I dont have any problems running the game, no stuttering or anything. Thank god considering what I had to go through to actually get this game to install right. I heard that the stuttering can be related to virusscanners/firewalls ect, or some people have said haveing less than 1gb of ram can cause it. On post somewhere said that the guy ran it with 512ram and it stuttered, then he bought another 512ram stick put it in and the stutter was gone so could have something to do with one or both of those.
 
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