Regularly recurring stuttering

[valzi]

In all games I have tried so far, every few minutes (and sometimes within the space of less than a minute) the entire program stutters. By this, I mean that the visuals freeze and the sound gets stuck on a loop that is about 1/4th of a second long. After this, the game returns to full speed. (Yes, I'm getting pleasant speeds except for during stutter.) Any idea what is causing this?

-Valzi

[nosound97]

What are your PC specs and what are the games you're trying to play?

[valzi]

(12-12-2009, 05:25 PM)nosound97 Wrote: What are your PC specs and what are the games you're trying to play?

Specs:

Windows 7 x64
Gateway® P-7807u FX Edition
Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor P8600 (2.6GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 3MB L2 Cache) 4096MB 1066MHz DDR3 Dual Channel Memory (2-2048MB modules)
NVIDIA® GeForce® 9800M GTS Graphics with 1GB of GDDR3 Discrete Video Memory and Intel® PM45 Chipset

Builds used:

4525
4525 IL
4681
4681 IL


Games Attempted:

Ikaragua
Animal Crossing
Pikmin
Pikmin 2
Super Mario Sunshine


The stuttering occurs across all of these games and in both builds.