studdering ,nothing left to try

[daveddy]

i got neverwinter the day it came out & played it & the expansions on 3 different p.c's with the same studder the first system was a 700 mhz p3 with 512mb of ram(pc133)geforce 3 ti 4600 64mb x4 agp, soundblaster live ,win me. i installed it my fps were fine but it would studder with encounters & walking through new areas so i decided to build a better computer i built a 2.2 ghz,400fsb,512mb of ram(pc133) geforce 4 ti4600 128mb x4 ,sound blaster audigy win xp,installed neverwinter again still the studder in the same places ,i was mad as hell,so i built another system 2.8 ghz 800fsb ,1gig of ddr pc2700 ram ,geforce 5900 256mb x8 agp sound blaster aduigy 2,winxp still the same damn studdering,ive tried every setting the game has to offer in every comination i can think of ,tried changing the settings in my video card options nothing worked ,ive tried the newest drivers ,older drivers,omega drivers,ive even tried running the game in 16bit color nothing ,if anyone has a fix please let me know ive payed thousands of dollars the play this game with out the studder ,i dont know what to do

[Petoffen]

Wild guess, 'stuttering' may be related to disk access.

Do you have your disks set up to be well cached - especially make sure you have a large windows cache file.

Also use disks with a good sized (8MB) buffer, defrag the system, etc., but probably most important is avoiding Windows swapping.