Horrible stuttering or lag

**Whatzitooya** · July 13, 2013, 01:03 PM

Game was running perfectly fine no lag no stutter, Then I do a battle with some random bandits Which somehow caused the entire game to stutter. Vanilla, kingdoms, mods and such. Ive done every fix I can think of Lowering settings updating drivers clean install. I know its not my card I can run every other game I own just fine. I am at a loss.

**ATTILA_289** · July 13, 2013, 01:28 PM

Hello there.
I can't directly solve your problem,but I can advise you to enhance your PC performance by doing some things which will lower the lag.
1. Get a disk defragmenting software like Diskeeper,especially if you have a big Hard Disk. I have seen tremendous increase in PC performance when running a full disk defragmentation,but results may vary.
2. Run the game with Razer Game Booster,or the IOBit one,which is older. Game Booster has 2 features:
a) You can customize which programs close every time you open a game, so you free up more memory for the game to run smoother. It also runs the game in a "game desktop" thing,which is even better for enhancing game performance.
b) it has a special "Tweaks" section,where you select any tweaks you like,so your PC can perform better.
This software is also really good,and it's for free!
If you want to get a direct solution for your problem so an advanced member can fix it,you should provide a diagnostics report (something which you can also do with Game Booster) and provide us your specs.

**Whatzitooya** · July 13, 2013, 05:09 PM

Heres the dxdiag Hope this can shed some light on something or other.

**irishron** · July 13, 2013, 05:39 PM

Lack of a dedicated graphics card will do it.

Be happy the i5 can handle what graphics it does for you.

You cannot upgrade these things without buying a new one.

**Whatzitooya** · July 13, 2013, 05:54 PM

Ah, Well thank you kindly for taking a look. I just cant figure out how the game went from working perfectly to stuttery ah well.

**irishron** · July 13, 2013, 06:06 PM

It can be many things including background programs (antivirus scans and Windows updates being the worst), messaging your buddies while playing, upped the unit size, upped the graphics settings, badly fragmented harddrive, and in case of laptops,think heat and the inside of the case being dirty.

This game is old XP based program with the only way CA seems to be able to "optimize" their games, push everything including the kitchen sink through the cpu before you see one byte of graphics on screen.

Try cleaning out your laptop real good of all the dust, dirt, what have you, and check the fans to be sure they are all still operational while you have it open.
Run disk cleanup and do a deep defrag of your harddrive.
The suggestion to use Game Booster made above this is a very good one for shutting down many processes that are not needed by the game.

Let us know if this helps.

**Whatzitooya** · July 13, 2013, 07:20 PM

Ok I did everything short of the air can*seeing as I currently lack one* Did notice something new When i muted the sound the stuttering decreased quite a bit now its just microstutter. Still irritating. As far as I can tell there are no scans any unneeded background programs are closed, Yet it still persists. Just slightly less obnoxious when the sound is off. Ive test played several other games. So far it seems the problem is rooted to Medieval 2.

**irishron** · July 13, 2013, 07:28 PM

Try updating the High Definition Audio codecs at www.realtek.com.tw.

Maybe an old driver hanging on you.

**Whatzitooya** · July 13, 2013, 08:00 PM

no driver supported ^^;

**irishron** · July 13, 2013, 08:14 PM

Then the laptop's is proprietary. Try the newest one of these. http://support.toshiba.com/support/d...eeText=3360870

**Whatzitooya** · July 13, 2013, 09:13 PM

Already have those in particular updated. Ok the main problems im getting now that ive done some more testing. When the sound is on it stutters and skips like there's no tomorrow When off it microstutters with the occasional skip for some reason or other this even effects the main menu. Whats getting me, Is that Earlier it ran smoothly no skipping no stutter no lag, Then after a battle with a small group of rebels it just started doing this. With only this game, no other. Im able to run several other intensive games with little to no trouble... I am at a complete loss.

**Losthief** · July 13, 2013, 09:24 PM

Maybe something got corrupted in the game files, if everything else is still running the same. Does the problem happen on new campaigns too? If so just move your saves folder to your desktop. Uninstall the game, clean the registry, re-install and move your saves back into place. And see if it fixes the issue.

**Whatzitooya** · July 13, 2013, 09:27 PM

Ive done that at least three times now sadly ^^; What should i use to clean the registry? Will CCcleaner be sufficient?

**irishron** · July 13, 2013, 09:28 PM

Ccleaner is sufficient.

As he asked, does it do it on a new campaign?

**Whatzitooya** · July 13, 2013, 09:32 PM

Yup New campaign, custom battles, quick battles, vanilla, mods, and kingdoms. I was using a mod when this happened, I wonder if that has anything to do with it. Although the mods been removed and registry scrubbed as well

**irishron** · July 14, 2013, 04:57 AM

Mods can because many use larger textures than CA did.

Do you have installed any torrents (even legal ones), ISOs, emulation software, warez, audio/visual editing software, or any other utilities? What other games do you have installed besides Medieval2 and any Steam games?

**Whatzitooya** · July 14, 2013, 10:39 PM

None of the above as for other games ive got shogun 2 installed both shogun and medieval 2 are on steam. New Vegas A couple of MMOS and an RPG or two here and there.