I7-7700HQ Stutter In-Game

[TBoyNZ]

Hello! The settings that I did on Throttlestop is to get minimum latency and max performance at a considerate below 90Celcius temperature.
I use a Lenovo Legion y520 Laptop with a Nvidia GTX1050Ti. I use this laptop for music production in DAW and FPS games.
I changed thermal paste quite recently, like 3 weeks ago.
I can't help but notice stuttering and frame drops whenever I'm in game. like a couple of seconds. It bugs me out not knowing what was the problem.
I would appreciate anyone who could tell me what sort of settings I could tweak further to solve this issue.

I have also attached a log file recently when the stuttering happened.

 

[electronicworld]

High latency results in Latencymon

I have both of those on auto on the b550 mag bazooka, paired with 5600x. Would you recommend changing them for performance or low latency ? Also been tinkering around with PSS and NX mode, Global c state, and SVM. Are there any optimizations regarding those bios options ?

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[unclewebb]

@TBoyNZ
Your CPU and GPU seem to be running at a consistent speed in the log file. There is no CPU throttling whatsoever.

Does the TS Bench 960M test report any errors? I would try setting both the core and the cache back to a very safe undervolt of -125 mV for both. This likely will not make any difference.

Were you having these stutters before you changed the thermal paste? Your CPU temperature is fine. It is not causing any thermal throttling in the log file.

You can try logging data with GPU-Z. Maybe it is a GPU problem. Are you overclocking the GPU? If you are, return it back to default clocks. Nvidia GPUs can slow down internally when you overclock them too much. Some sort of error correction seems to kick in.

For your ThrottleStop settings, I would clear the Sync MMIO box, press Apply and then check the MMIO Lock box instead. Locking the MMIO power limits is best. When they are locked, ThrottleStop does not have to constantly monitor them to see if they have changed.

Have you tried using a few different GPU drivers? Newer drivers might cause issues with older hardware. This can happen when new drivers are not thoroughly tested on older GPUs.

Latencymon might show a driver that is behaving badly.

 

[TBoyNZ]

@unclewebb The TS Bench 960M test report shows PL 1 and EDP Other. I changed the core and cache like you advised but I had to compensate my temps by reducing my frequencies to based 2.8GHz.
The closest to Temp 90Celcius is 3.1GHz.

I did have these stutters before thermal paste. I also had a GPU changed before these as well last year, since the last one broke. I am not overclocking my GPU. Though, I did change the settings in the Nvidia Panel, should I change it to the default settings?

I followed just as you advised me, But I didn't know what to fill in the boxes, and decided to settle with 45. Should I had it 45 for long and 60 for short? And does clamping do anything useful for my case?

I tried different GPU Drivers, yes. The last smoothest experience I had was on the 526.98. The thread above, I was using the latest one which was 531.68.

Unfortunately, even after what you mentioned, I was still stuttering. I tried lowering down all the settings to the lowest for my FPS game, Valorant.
Like, Anti-Aliasing to None, Every details from UI, Graphic, Foliage to None. Even avoid using high rig settings like Improve Clarity & Post-Sharpening which gave a disclaimer saying It'll FPS hit if GPU bound.

Is there any other settings that I could change on Throttlestop? Should I undervolt my GPU? What could be the cause of my stuttering issues?


I do have LatencyMon. How exactly should I check for which driver is behaving badly?

 

[unclewebb]

Have you owned this laptop since it was new? When did you first start having stutter issues? Your CPU is more than 6 years old which means your Nvidia GPU is also that old. When I say that you need to try some older Nvidia drivers, you might have to test several drivers going back many years. The latest drivers are designed for the latest Nvidia GPUs. I can guarantee you that they have not been fully tested on a 6 year old mobile GPU.

Your CPU is running OK. Some PL1 power limit throttling while stress testing is not the issue. You can ignore yellow boxes in Limit Reasons. Only when boxes under the CORE column are glowing red is when you need to investigate further.

What could be the cause of my stuttering issues?

Pretty much anything. Without knowing when or if your laptop ever used to run smoothly, it becomes very difficult or impossible to solve stutter issues. Any update from Nvidia or a Windows Update from Microsoft might cause your computer to stutter. Any program you have installed on your computer might be the problem. Is the stutter game specific or do all games stutter?