First post, by tgomola
I've recently noticed a strange behavior of DX8 games on my laptop - there is a visible stuttering every few seconds. I have no idea what causes this, and this didn't happen on my laptop in the past. The only things I did was update Intel and Nvidia drivers, and a month ago or so I temporarily upgraded my OS to Windows 10 (but after one day I reverted it back to 8.1).
So far I've noticed this problem in these games:
- Need for Speed III with VEG's widescreen patch (only in DX8 mode, DX5 works fine)
- Motor City Online (only when running in full screen, windowed mode works fine)
- Street Legal Racing Redline
- Cross Racing Championship Extreme
The funny thing is, when I ran NFS3 with Intel GPU, the stuttering was gone!
My laptop specs: i7, Intel HD 4600 + GT755M, 8 GB RAM, Win 8.1 x64.
Any ideas?
EDIT: I changed the title of this thread, as I noticed the problem also occurs in some DX9 games.