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Processor | Intel i5 3570k @ 3.4 GHZ |
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Motherboard | Asus P8Z77 M |
Memory | Corsair XMS 4x 2GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 PC3 12800 |
Video Card(s) | EVGA Geforce GTX 970 4GB |
Power Supply | Corsair TX650W PSU |
Software | Windows 7 Professional 64-bit |
I've been on some sort of odyssey in the past week. There were many bumps, double posts, and posting on strange forums, but I might have found something.
I've been having this issue for over a week, and I think I've finally narrowed it down to Steam somehow being the problem.
Every couple seconds, I get a stutter. Framerate will drop from 60 or 300 (uncapped Source games) all the way down to less than 30, just for half a second, but enough for me to notice it and disrupt how smoothly the game plays. I tested it with Assassin's Creed II, Batman Arkham City, Half-Life 2, and Team Fortress 2. All of them had stutters/ framerate drops. I've already deleted the Steam folder, completely reinstalled it and reinstalled a couple games, but the problem is clearly persisting. It happens regardless of the video driver being used (currently using the most recent).
I tried Mirror's Edge installed from a disc, no problem. Mass Effect 3 installed through Origin, no problems either. Add Steam shortcuts to those two games, run them through Steam, same problem as the Steam games. I disabled overlay, which is not an acceptable solution, but it doesn't matter because it did nothing to stop the problem in TF2 or HL2. So, all I can see is that Steam is somehow causing the issue. You might want to say it's a GPU bottleneck issue. Except this computer has had no bottlenecking issues at all in the past 6 months. This is only a recent problem, the past two weeks at most, and GPU and CPU temperatures are normal (30-40C idle, 60C under games).
Again: Only in games run through Steam, and I've updated/ rolled back video drivers, makes no difference.
Games not run through Steam, even Origin which has its own resource-sucking properties and its own overlay, are completely fine.
I've been having this issue for over a week, and I think I've finally narrowed it down to Steam somehow being the problem.
Every couple seconds, I get a stutter. Framerate will drop from 60 or 300 (uncapped Source games) all the way down to less than 30, just for half a second, but enough for me to notice it and disrupt how smoothly the game plays. I tested it with Assassin's Creed II, Batman Arkham City, Half-Life 2, and Team Fortress 2. All of them had stutters/ framerate drops. I've already deleted the Steam folder, completely reinstalled it and reinstalled a couple games, but the problem is clearly persisting. It happens regardless of the video driver being used (currently using the most recent).
I tried Mirror's Edge installed from a disc, no problem. Mass Effect 3 installed through Origin, no problems either. Add Steam shortcuts to those two games, run them through Steam, same problem as the Steam games. I disabled overlay, which is not an acceptable solution, but it doesn't matter because it did nothing to stop the problem in TF2 or HL2. So, all I can see is that Steam is somehow causing the issue. You might want to say it's a GPU bottleneck issue. Except this computer has had no bottlenecking issues at all in the past 6 months. This is only a recent problem, the past two weeks at most, and GPU and CPU temperatures are normal (30-40C idle, 60C under games).
Again: Only in games run through Steam, and I've updated/ rolled back video drivers, makes no difference.
Games not run through Steam, even Origin which has its own resource-sucking properties and its own overlay, are completely fine.
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