Blitz998

Hi guys I'm new to this forum and I was hoping someone could help me out...heres my problem: in direct X accelerated games (open GL games work perfectly) my screen will skip every couple seconds...i have smooth play then skip smooth play skip...and I have tried disabling all background service and tasks, also tried up[censored] all my sound, RAID and video drivers but to no avail here my system config: ABIT BE6-II with HPT 370 on board RAID (BIOS v.1.03b) Pentium III 800 slot 1 (100mhz FSB) 2x 128MB sticks of PC100 SDRAM ATI RADEON VIVO 64MB DDR Sound Blaster Live! Platinum 5.1 IBM 30.7 GB 7200RPM HDD (connected to RAID controller but not part of a RAID) Imation Super Disk Drive (connected to primary slave) Toshiba DVD (connected as secondary master) Plextor CDR (connected as primary master) Win2k Pro SP2+ all updates DirectX 8.0 plus Digital video patch any insight to this problem would be greatly appreciated! thanks again...

Thanks for the tips but I found the problem...the problem was I had a MS sidewinder force feedback driver installed and it kept bogging down the system everytime it went to find the joystick (that had been disconnected) once I removed the driver everthing worked great!

the skipping happens with any Direct3d game (ie GTA2, Thief2, Deux EX, X-Wing Alliance, ect.) No CDROM activity and no heavy HDD activity either, the wierd thing is I never used to have this problem yet now I do...thanks for the advice tho its greatly appreciated!