Quote Originally Posted by rion View Post
nice new toy! now that's a high-end card.

not so happy in my His 4850, more weird stuff with Ati... I get a lag when I open any image for the first time. the second time and the rest, it's fine though... Then, it lags when I press "printscreen" while playing Left 4 Dead 2" had more weirdness on both my x1650 pro pcie and agp. lags with custom skinned windows, specialy with windows blinds...

in fairness, His IceQ looks nice for a 5.4k card. hehe...

At least you can grab game images with PrtScn. Me? games like FSX and X-Plane 9 do fine with PrtScn (without any pauses). With some games like Crysis, I have to resort to FRAPS probably due to Windows 7 forcing blank images. But, I haven't seen any pauses with mine using either FRAPS or PrtScn.

The closest game I have to L4D2 is Half Life 2. Same thing. No pauses.

I get a momentary blink of the eye pause whenever I load an image. But, that's been the case with every Windows OS and every video card I've ever had.

How long of a pause are you talking about? It sounds like the image is pausing as it loads into memory and being loaded from a cache with subsequent openings of the image making load times quicker.

I don't see it on mine. Are you sure it's not from a tweak you made?

I mean there's such a thing about being overzealous with tweaking a system for efficiency. There's always a chance a tweak will improve one thing and then interfere with something else.