I've read countless pages on various forms of the 'stutter bug' in HL2, but I've never been effected by it until now.
In the time I noticed this (in the last few weeks), I'd not changed anything on my machine, except for a point-update for DirectX9c that I was forced to update when installing my latest game, GTLegends. GTLegends exhibits a few audio odditys (stumbling during level etc), but I can live with it, as it's clean during play.
BUT something has completely borked HL2. I get what I presume are the classic and well documented symptoms of brief framerate lags and half second long audio hiccups, but NOT necessarily during autoload/save points etc.
I've validated Steam files, run perfmon to check pagefile/ram/disk usage, uninstalled/reinstalled GTLegends, reinstalled 'known good' graphics card drivers (and updated to the latest), defragged to hell and back, and still nothing cures HL2 (or the other games little hiccups for that matter). The only thing I can't try is a roll-back of DirectX.
Anyone got any ideas? Really appreciated, thanks,
S.


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