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buying another 8GB stick that's not tested and sold as a matched pair may be problematic, or it may not. Just be aware that the stuttering could come back, or not.
Yeah I know, been reading a bit on that. Just to help others out there trying to find a solution to this stuttering problem. The stuttering is still present in modern warfare 3 for me. It is not completely gone, but it is slightly less than beforeI would say about 10% less than before but it is still there. I wish these developers would actually test the performance on a medium rig instead of using PCs with the latest GPU from nvidia and other latest hardware and just assume it will work on other decent pcs just cause they have scalable settings. Sometimes they leave bugs in their programs (Deus ex: memory leak in city hubs) due to lack of time to fix them I suppose or simply they are not paid to and won't bother. I'll just repeat what I heard on the net "the state of pc gaming these days" it's like s**t. Sorry guys problem not fixed but thanks for trying. I personally believe that switching to nvidia might help like when I was using a GT440 1GB GDDR5. The gameplay was smoother although stutter would still occur sometimes but with a HD7870 or HD5770 the stutter is horrible in some games. By the way I even got Deus ex human rev on the xbox 360 and I could still see the game stuttering (a lot less than PC but still there, it's just that the stutter lasts less longer) especially when attempting to run in cities, just like on the pc version. It's a coding problem, bad optimization. Not hardware. I bet 20 years from now when our grand kids decide to pop in a modern warfare 3 cd to see how retro the game is, it will still stutter even with hardware 20 years from now.