mirage202: I wonder if the stuttering is due to the Gamespy shut down?...
good thinking, thanks! didnt check my firewall yet and indeed i found some blocked requests. not that frequent, but who knows... ill see if i can come up with any correlation to the stuttering as soon as i have some time to play again.
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Silverhawk170485: If you don't matter the Story...
well... i started off the game with the storymode and so far i would like to finish it.
but that feature does indeed sound good. even thought about something like that while playing yesterday :) guess ill start the expansion either when i finish the story or get too frustrated by the freezing ^^ thanks for the tip!
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edit... no clue what it is with this program but the freezes keep happening for me. starting with stutters and becoming worse with about an hour before it isnt fun anymore and i need a restart.
so far i checked the firewall logs/traffic, cpu and ram usage. no problems that i can tell. no sudden spikes or loads. as far as i can tell it only tries to connect at startup. didnt try allowing it yet, but i dont think that would change anything. it hardly even uses the cpu or graphic card.
it may be some memory leak that becomes noticably worse over time... havent looked into that. yet it seems that they fixed it in the expansion however. so i guess i just give up and restart every hour ^^
if anyone finds a fix (so you can play the standard games storymode without the stutter/freeze bug forcing the restart) please let me know.