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I loaded up shogun 2 and set up a 4X4 ultra battle. I figured this would be a good test of Rapture's "my m18x" performance.

I was running around 20-40 fps but it wasnt smooth.

is there an m18x stutter removal tutorial available?

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With large fps fluctuations you're bound to see stutter. Does shogun use high resolution textures? Sometimes the HDD has to load those to memory and if you have a mechanical drive, it'll cause stuttering. Lastly, try downloading Radeon Pro and setting a profile for the game with triple buffering and see if that gets rid of it.

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You will need to enable vsync + triple buffering for directx using radeon pro, like brian mentioned.

Also, you should run fraps and use its microstutter measure technique to determine just how bad it is.

-Ash

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Well I think the problem is I downloaded a virus trying to get a free vantage activation code caus i was toolazy to try and find mine.

Time for fresh install. Can't get rid of it and it droped vantage score down below 19k so its working hard at something. Only thing I can find is its a rootkit.

I like radion pro though. Ill check fraps as well and ill see once I get my fresh install.

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Dont fucking touch Norman please.

If you need to quickly get rid of a virus, please use MSSE or Panda, then uninstall the software afterward. This is part of the particular field I work in, and we have done extensive testing on the performance of antivirii and similar softwares.

-Ash

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Okay can you explain why not to use Norman's tool? I use MSSE myself. But a serious rootkit that breaks through some virus protection... sometimes simple tools like that help clean already infected systems... especially malware that blocks the install of some virus protection. Now I have used norman and have had no probs with their tool... but have never used their actual "protection". That being said I have used Avira, Norton (poop), Mcafee(poop), Malwarebytes (I keep free version installed and updated), MSE, SuperAntISPyware, Spybot search and destroy, AVG, Avast, Eset Nod32, Comodo, Kapersky, Bitdefender, Lavasoft Adaware, Trend Micro PC-Cillin and Emisoft anti-malware. I have heard of Vipre Antivirus and Panda I used years ago before they went to the cloud. Now I am no expert and tried all of the aforementioned. I also in passing read of Threat Fire and Immunet as other cloud based virus scanners. So I am asking for your opinion Ash or anyone else who has good information about which of all these are acceptable and which to stay clear from. I hate false positives etc. Also like I mentioned earlier sometimes you have a scenario that a piece of malware slips past your protection through changing memory addresses and making decoys the protection reads instead. Maybe not a good example... anyway if there's a protection that will block even the sneakiest of rootkits then plese let me know. Example I have seen malware slip past MSE and Malwarebytes picks it right up... please elaboate would love to know what you rate good or not and what is the best complete coverage out of any...

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The mcaffee thing is a well known scam used to make you buy a "license" to be put on their "whitelist". All they are doing is trying to scam you out of their cash. To be perfectly honest, the kind of people that use mcaffee should be coming to TI anyway.

You wont get off their block list unless you give them their "licensing fee". Not sure why this is even legal, but whatever. America Fuck yeah.

Norman is just another Norton competitor designed to fool old people into thinking they are buying Norton. It is given to PC stores to bundle with PC's which shortly afterwards begins it's scarware routine "WARNING YOUR PC ISNT PROTECTED RENEW YOUR LICENSE" garbage like all in-box AV's do.

The detection rate for Norman is laughable. Most of their time and effort is spent on marketing and UI.

MSSE is a great suite, and Panda is the highest detection rate of live threats bar none. The best part of Panda is its heuristic engine which is the highest detection rate and the lowest false positive number. In our real world use, we could not find a machine we couldnt fix with panda, no matter how far gone.

But yeah, Norman is just another consumer con.

-Ash

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Great info thanks Ash. I'd like to say I have had the exact same experiences. I will give panda a try. You said you uninstall the software afterwards. Is that because of it's resources or it's light on resources? How bout link scanning protection. AVG link scanner I recently started using to protect family members and friends from getting taken by drive by downloads etc. MSE in the past year proved to find most but Malwarebytes detected stuff MSE didn't no lie. I will switch to Panda fulltime and see how many kinds of "too fargone" cases it can solve. Thanks again. So again use avg link scanner or can Panda cover that too? Since we are talking about these topics what of firewalls. I've used Zone Alarm and Comodo and the one built into Nod32's internet ssecurity and also Avira's firewall. What's your best bet Ash? Glad to have someone here with your experience. I am shocked dumbass Mcafee is rating TI as a bad site. They can keep their dumb license and go on Tech Inferno's worst software's list! I can vouch for how bad Mcafee and Norton are... both are extremely easily disabled by a virus. They both have settings that block programs from changing their settings. They don't work and a virus can break right though their defences. Okay the 3rd topic other than the mentioned virus as one and firewalls/link scanners as the 2nd, the 3rd is how light of resources does Panda use... I know anything I've used like Avira and Nod32 that use realtime and heuristic protections use a lot of cpu resources even when set to be a "backround" process. Do you use Panda then uninstall till needed? Or you use it fulltime? I'm a person that will never stop asking questions. I strive to understand. Thanks for your wonderful response Ash hope to hear what you have to say to these questions.

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OMG screw Mcafee we need to ban together and get every good site out their on their black list on somekind of strike against them. They've only stolen peoples money. Can we file multiple complaints against them to the Better Buisness Bureau? You got me all riled up now!

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Yeah Mcaffee has been doing it for years, mainly to small startup sites they can prey on. Ignore them, they dont matter. They wont remove you from the list until you give them money, no matter how hard you beg.

Panda historically has used a lot of resources for its heuristic scanning, as it is very powerful and very thorough - hence the "uninstall" comment. Panda is like the godzilla of AV. No where near as much as norton mind you, but still noticeable.

Panda cloud AV is much lighter in resources, but I dont think it hooks in as deep as Panda non-cloud (speculation, could be wrong).

Stay away from software firewalls. You have a DSL or cable modem - thus, you have a hardware firewall already, and it works for your whole home. Log into it and tweak it to your heart's content.

-Ash

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Awesome advice Ash thanks so much you know already your absolutly right, thanks I'll start tweaking the modems settings, I've been there to adjust some things already. I'll use no software firewalls. Does avg link scanner count? I don't use it, but try to use it for family members that are less computer savvy and prone to downloading or clicking on bad links. Any good solutions for that? Thanks I have a feeling I'll be swearing by Panda from here on. I'll use the full version. Thanks so much for the advice. I guess if I want good protection I should expect a bit more resource usage. So I gather you check over your whole system and then uninstall until you've made large changes to your system. I see that as an okay solution for me but may need to leave it all intact on my family members computers. I know there's low, medium, high firewall on my modem... and I can customize them... On inbound or outbound any rules of thumb to stick to? I see http, various ports etc...

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Basically, make a list of all the ports that you and your family use. Find everything. Then, block everything else and unblock as needed. AVG link scanner will be useful.

Personally, I don't actually use an antivirus any more. I know the actions an antivirus will take to remove a virus, and can do it manually just as good (and take up no system resources doing it).

I dont go to porn sites or warez sites and run fanboi's list in adblock and dont open EXE's/etc in emails. Simply doing that has meant I have not had a virus in the last 6+ years.

-Ash

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Basically, make a list of all the ports that you and your family use. Find everything. Then, block everything else and unblock as needed. AVG link scanner will be useful.

Personally, I don't actually use an antivirus any more. I know the actions an antivirus will take to remove a virus, and can do it manually just as good (and take up no system resources doing it).

I dont go to porn sites or warez sites and run fanboi's list in adblock and dont open EXE's/etc in emails. Simply doing that has meant I have not had a virus in the last 6+ years.

-Ash

I'll follow those directions on ports... the avg scanner will be good for my family members then. I can't stop my bro from surfing porn lol! So I am afraid I'll have to load him to the teeth in protection (not really just avg link scanner and Panda). So I see there are 3 versions of Panda for home users... is "Panda Antivirus Pro 2011 ($50 a year)" good enough or at least for the family members would you recommend one of the other 2, "Panda Global Protection 2011 ($70 a year)" or "Panda Internet Security 2011 ($60 a year)". Any easy commands or tools to see a list of ports utilized on a given computer? Sorry for 1000 and 1 questions. As for my system I may clear it with Panda and leave it uninstalled until I make big changes... like you suggested...

Edit: I apologize everyone for the 4-5 off topic posts. Learn from my questions Ash is a very knowleged and esteemed member of T|I and I appreciate your assistance Ash! -Marc

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I've been using Panda for years now...but it's very hard on the resources. I use MSSE for the past year n half an it does the job. But mind you,Panda is the best out there IMO as well. Totally agree with Ash.

Back to topic, has the OP's stutter fixed..???

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:snicker:

I've been using Panda for years now...but it's very hard on the resources. I use MSSE for the past year n half an it does the job. But mind you,Panda is the best out there IMO as well. Totally agree with Ash.

Back to topic, has the OP's stutter fixed..???

By MSSE you mean: "Multiple Self-Healing Squamous Epithelioma"? :snicker:

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Yes back on topic again sorry guys, E46Justice... did you get a clean reinstall going or remove that virus... and loaded 11.5 + newest CAP version?

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