Tackling the Stuttering Bug

[CSN NewsBot]

Have you experienced the infamous "stuttering bug" in any of your Source games? Feel like lending a hand to find the cause of the bug? Then head on over to the Friends Network BETA Wiki page for information on how you can help. Using the same command line as the Friends BETA, you will also lend a hand in helping to find the cause (and hopeful solution) to the Source stuttering issue.

Also included in the Friends beta are some changes to help narrow down the 'stuttering' problem in Half-Life 2. If you experience this, please run through a scenario that would previously stutter for you in and see if that problem still occurs. The useful format for feedback would be to add your experience to the stuttering subheading on this page, along with:

• A description of the stuttering event
  
  
• The area in Half-Life 2 where this happens
  
  
• Your experience of what happens when you try to reproduce the bug when you run without the beta command line (was it better/worse/the same?)
  
  
• A short description of the hardware you're testing on (CPU Speed and type/Video Card/amount of RAM)

To access the current BETA, your command line for Steam should look something like this:

"C:\Program Files\Valve\Steam\Steam.exe" -beta steam3friends -clientbeta steam3friends

[EsEp]

Yeah I get this sometimes and I have an X800 pro. gig of ram and a 3200+.



Gets really lame. Even nades fucking stutter.



Happens all the time in upper B tunnels on dust2. lol

[Whisper.]

The Beta is unfortunately incompatible with zBlock



At least at the time I wrote this comment.

[Spriteman]

EsEp wrote..

Yeah I get this sometimes and I have an X800 pro. gig of ram and a 3200+.



Gets really lame. Even nades fucking stutter.



Happens all the time in upper B tunnels on dust2. lol

I have that same exact setup and i get this a lot too, also Half Life 2 stutters like every time G-man speaks in the intro its really very weird and annoying as hell.

[Zips]

Spriteman wrote..

I have that same exact setup and i get this a lot too, also Half Life 2 stutters like every time G-man speaks in the intro its really very weird and annoying as hell.

Seems like it's a sound caching issue, but if not... only way to really help is through that above method! I believe they said they already fixed some issues but are always looking for more.

[Gpig]

Yeah I got the stuttering when the g-man talked in the beginning too if I remember correctly, and I have a 7800GT.

[SubNeoN]

does this include where the game TOTALY screws up after some HDR maps? eg it slows to a crawl in responsiveness and won't exit?

[Jobbeh]

S-S-S-Stutter-tastic! Get it sometimes, hope it gets sorted.

[[CyW]-=BigBear=-]

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Fortunatly never had that bug.. Pretty stupid people are still having that long after the game was released over a year ago..



Btw, I have a Intel P4 550 3.4Ghz, Asus P5LD2, OCZ 2GB DDR2 667, Asus 6800GT 256MB PCI-E, SB Audigy2 ZS, WinXP-PRO SP2 computer, all with latest drivers etc.. No stutter whatsoever in Source games, for whatever it's worth..

[omgomgz]

But guys I thought there were no bugs in Steam/Valve games??????

[washuplushie]

omgomgz wrote..

But guys I thought there were no bugs in Steam/Valve games??????

reguardless of how good a company is, it's INCREDIBLY hard to get rid of every bug ever found in a game, I don't care how much you bitch about it.

Blizzard is STILL patching their starcraft and warcraft games x years after their releases.

[elite-mafia]

Never got it when I first bought the game, never got it when I first installed my 6600gt, just recently reformatted, still get it... It's obviously just the coding in the havok engine causing this.

[kerosine99]

When people were first complaining about the stuttering bug I remember Valve saying they couldn't reproduce it on a bunch of different machines at their headquarters and it must be a problem with specific computers (sypware, viruses, etc) and not a problem with the actual game itself.



So does this mean they're admitting its a problem with the actual game?

[Zips]

kerosine99 wrote..

When people were first complaining about the stuttering bug I remember Valve saying they couldn't reproduce it on a bunch of different machines at their headquarters and it must be a problem with specific computers (sypware, viruses, etc) and not a problem with the actual game itself.



So does this mean they're admitting its a problem with the actual game?

If they can't reproduce it there, it could just mean that those persons who are experiencing the problem have the same hardware or hardware combos that are different than those found at Valve.

[zazenXhagakure]

I've always had it. It's better when I turn down the speaker setup. i.e. 5-speaker surround has the worst stuttering, 2-speaker stereo has the least stuttering. I just sort of accept it as a drawback to an otherwise tremendous game. I still love the game very much, but if they were to get rid of the stuttering I might just go play it through for like the 8-9th time.



I have a 3200+, 1GB 3200 ram (although it happened when I had 512), 6800 gt (although it happened with my 5200 fx too) sound blaster audigy 4 (although it happened with my live! too) I always felt it was because it has to cache so much stuff so quickly and in trying to do so you get the stutter.