Hello,
For almost a year now I've had problems with stutters in more or less all games I play. I have read countless of threads, watched videos and tried different things to resovle this issue. I spent both a lot of time and money trying to tackle this, but regardless of what I do I seem unable to resolve it. I'm on the verge of completly giving up and desperately need help. The problem is that I have stutters in all games I play. It has without any exaggeration taken all the fun out of gaming and made it into a painful activity with the sole purpose of reminding me, sorry for my bad language, that my PC sucks ass.
I play with my main monitor on 144hz with g-sync enabled and cap my fps to 144, or for some games to 60FPS. I do this by ingame settings, or Nvidia Control panel, or RTTS. I have tried v-sync on/off, g-sync on/off, uncapped/capped fps and regardelss of what I do I get stutters. I usually play on fullscreen because on boarderless I get even more stutters. Lets take "League of Legends" as an example; a game that should have no issues running on my PC. I experimented with the settings and the "smoothest" way seemed to be by capping game to 144fps and playing on fullscreen. Here are some graphs, captured with MSI afterburner, showing various information when the game is running on my PC (needless to say I did have stutters and the game was borderline unplayable).
1. On practice tool(basically nothing going on in the game): https://imgur.com/a/OHFYWfe
2. A normal league game: 3. Another normal league game:
I don't know how to properly read, understand or identify if there is anything "bad" in those graphs. For me what stands out is that my frametime is really inconsistent and representative of the stutters I experience. I have also run into latency problems since I upgraded my NVIDIA drivers just the other day. I now seem unable to resolve this issue even when rolling back to my old driver version. Here is a picture showing my high latency captured with LatencyMon: . Never had any problems with high latency before (checked many times) and I still had stutters so I doubt this is now the reason I have stutters, but it might be one amongst other reasons.
PC:
OS: Windows 10 Home
Case: NZXT H510
PSU: Corsair RM750 / 750W / 80+ Gold
CPU: Ryzen 3700x - with "Noctua NH-U12" cooler
GPU: Asus GeForce RTX 2070 Super Dual Evo OC
RAM: Corsair 16gb (2x8) ddr4 3200mhz CL16 Vengeance LPX
Motherboard: Asus Rog Strix b450-f
Storage: Samsung SSD 970 EVO NVMe M.2 + 2x 250gb SSD
Monitors:
Main: Asus VG258, 1920 x 1080p, 0,5ms, 165hz, g-sync
Second: AOC 24, 1920 x 1080p, 1ms, 144hz, freesync
Over the last year I upgraded: (1) PSU from 550w --> new one (2) CPU from ryzen 5 2700 --> new one. (3) GPU from Geforce GTX 1060 3gb --> new one (4) RAM 2x4gb 2666mhz --> new ones. (5) New G-sync compatible monitor since I thought not having g-sync could be the reason for my stutters. I changed more or less everything except my motherboard and my computer case. The new CPU and GPU was definitely an improvement, gave me much higher fps, allowing for higher settings and so on, but it did however not resolve the stutters. I did also try different cables for my monitors (DP and HDMI) as well as trying different power cables for my PC + monitors. Having changed most hardware my suspicion is that my stutters are due to some software or drivers problem as opposed to some hardware problem(but this remains only a guess).
What have I tried:
(1)Checked if hardware runs properly using: 3Dmark, furmark, cinebench, memtest86 - all with good results(don't have any screenshot saved but I can easily run again and take a screenshot if someone think that would be helpful).
(2)RAM(currently using xmp on, or D.O.C.P. to be precise): played around with different settings; xmp (on/off), attempted to use the DRAM calculator for Ryzen to manually set optimized ram timings but computer would not boot after that, puting ram-sticks in different slots but computer only boots when ram is on slot 2 and 4 which is recommended position for dual ram on my motherboard.
(3)CPU(currently using default settings): Tried overclocking, precision boost overdrive on/off, SMT on/off, lower voltage from 1.49(default) --> 1.4, pinning games to cores with process affinity(this sometimes helps a bit), using aggressive cpu-fan curves to avoid heat issues.
(3) GPU(currently using default settings): DDU to install/unistall new nvidia drivers, using nvidia inspector everything looks fine to me, tried many different settings in Nvidia control panel, using MSI mode utility, re-slotting the card.
-Updated bios
-Uninstalled and reinstalling sound drivers, disabeling built in audio on motherboard
-Installing AMD chipset drivers
-Tried different power plans(currently using ryzen high performance)
-empty standby memory list
-Reinstalling my games
-Reinstall OS
-Disabeling various windows settings such as game bar and HPET
-Using only one monitor
-Uninstalling all utility software for example MSI afterburner and amd ryzen master
-Trying to identify if some background process is substantially hurting my games
-Monitoring and making sure I don't overheat CPU or GPU
-Probably did more things I just don't remeber on top of my head since I have tried to resolve this issue for almost a year now.
I would appreciate and be thankful for any input or recommendation that you may have,
Thanks in advance!
/Flash
For almost a year now I've had problems with stutters in more or less all games I play. I have read countless of threads, watched videos and tried different things to resovle this issue. I spent both a lot of time and money trying to tackle this, but regardless of what I do I seem unable to resolve it. I'm on the verge of completly giving up and desperately need help. The problem is that I have stutters in all games I play. It has without any exaggeration taken all the fun out of gaming and made it into a painful activity with the sole purpose of reminding me, sorry for my bad language, that my PC sucks ass.
I play with my main monitor on 144hz with g-sync enabled and cap my fps to 144, or for some games to 60FPS. I do this by ingame settings, or Nvidia Control panel, or RTTS. I have tried v-sync on/off, g-sync on/off, uncapped/capped fps and regardelss of what I do I get stutters. I usually play on fullscreen because on boarderless I get even more stutters. Lets take "League of Legends" as an example; a game that should have no issues running on my PC. I experimented with the settings and the "smoothest" way seemed to be by capping game to 144fps and playing on fullscreen. Here are some graphs, captured with MSI afterburner, showing various information when the game is running on my PC (needless to say I did have stutters and the game was borderline unplayable).
1. On practice tool(basically nothing going on in the game): https://imgur.com/a/OHFYWfe
2. A normal league game: 3. Another normal league game:
I don't know how to properly read, understand or identify if there is anything "bad" in those graphs. For me what stands out is that my frametime is really inconsistent and representative of the stutters I experience. I have also run into latency problems since I upgraded my NVIDIA drivers just the other day. I now seem unable to resolve this issue even when rolling back to my old driver version. Here is a picture showing my high latency captured with LatencyMon: . Never had any problems with high latency before (checked many times) and I still had stutters so I doubt this is now the reason I have stutters, but it might be one amongst other reasons.
PC:
OS: Windows 10 Home
Case: NZXT H510
PSU: Corsair RM750 / 750W / 80+ Gold
CPU: Ryzen 3700x - with "Noctua NH-U12" cooler
GPU: Asus GeForce RTX 2070 Super Dual Evo OC
RAM: Corsair 16gb (2x8) ddr4 3200mhz CL16 Vengeance LPX
Motherboard: Asus Rog Strix b450-f
Storage: Samsung SSD 970 EVO NVMe M.2 + 2x 250gb SSD
Monitors:
Main: Asus VG258, 1920 x 1080p, 0,5ms, 165hz, g-sync
Second: AOC 24, 1920 x 1080p, 1ms, 144hz, freesync
Over the last year I upgraded: (1) PSU from 550w --> new one (2) CPU from ryzen 5 2700 --> new one. (3) GPU from Geforce GTX 1060 3gb --> new one (4) RAM 2x4gb 2666mhz --> new ones. (5) New G-sync compatible monitor since I thought not having g-sync could be the reason for my stutters. I changed more or less everything except my motherboard and my computer case. The new CPU and GPU was definitely an improvement, gave me much higher fps, allowing for higher settings and so on, but it did however not resolve the stutters. I did also try different cables for my monitors (DP and HDMI) as well as trying different power cables for my PC + monitors. Having changed most hardware my suspicion is that my stutters are due to some software or drivers problem as opposed to some hardware problem(but this remains only a guess).
What have I tried:
(1)Checked if hardware runs properly using: 3Dmark, furmark, cinebench, memtest86 - all with good results(don't have any screenshot saved but I can easily run again and take a screenshot if someone think that would be helpful).
(2)RAM(currently using xmp on, or D.O.C.P. to be precise): played around with different settings; xmp (on/off), attempted to use the DRAM calculator for Ryzen to manually set optimized ram timings but computer would not boot after that, puting ram-sticks in different slots but computer only boots when ram is on slot 2 and 4 which is recommended position for dual ram on my motherboard.
(3)CPU(currently using default settings): Tried overclocking, precision boost overdrive on/off, SMT on/off, lower voltage from 1.49(default) --> 1.4, pinning games to cores with process affinity(this sometimes helps a bit), using aggressive cpu-fan curves to avoid heat issues.
(3) GPU(currently using default settings): DDU to install/unistall new nvidia drivers, using nvidia inspector everything looks fine to me, tried many different settings in Nvidia control panel, using MSI mode utility, re-slotting the card.
-Updated bios
-Uninstalled and reinstalling sound drivers, disabeling built in audio on motherboard
-Installing AMD chipset drivers
-Tried different power plans(currently using ryzen high performance)
-empty standby memory list
-Reinstalling my games
-Reinstall OS
-Disabeling various windows settings such as game bar and HPET
-Using only one monitor
-Uninstalling all utility software for example MSI afterburner and amd ryzen master
-Trying to identify if some background process is substantially hurting my games
-Monitoring and making sure I don't overheat CPU or GPU
-Probably did more things I just don't remeber on top of my head since I have tried to resolve this issue for almost a year now.
I would appreciate and be thankful for any input or recommendation that you may have,
Thanks in advance!
/Flash