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midget killer · 08-19-2002, 06:32 AM

That's cool, but I was just stating that the IRQs don't matter it was the fact that you moved the cards out of your video card's DMA channel was what got rid of the stutter. It just happened to get a new IRQ.

You can take that one step futher and only occupy every other PCI slot so that no card shares a DMA channel. Because there's a limited number of them they are ussualy paired up so AGP and PCI 1 share, PCI 2 & 3 share, PCI 4 & 5 share, then it's ussualy something like IDE controller 1 & 2, Floppy and something else.

Each board is different though.

End result - it works eh! happy:

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midget killer is Offline Junior Member Posts: 29 Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: U.S. of A.	08-19-2002, 06:32 AM That's cool, but I was just stating that the IRQs don't matter it was the fact that you moved the cards out of your video card's DMA channel was what got rid of the stutter. It just happened to get a new IRQ. You can take that one step futher and only occupy every other PCI slot so that no card shares a DMA channel. Because there's a limited number of them they are ussualy paired up so AGP and PCI 1 share, PCI 2 & 3 share, PCI 4 & 5 share, then it's ussualy something like IDE controller 1 & 2, Floppy and something else. Each board is different though. End result - it works eh! happy: