Stuttering issues in PC games

[Agent67]

Lastly, what's your PSU? The above might not be the issue, but the more demanding titles might be choking your power delivery.

550W.

 

[Lupus]

Ok, I installed it. Where do you check for FPS stats or whatever?

You'll have to set it up

MSI Afterburner Overlay - How To Setup?

Learn how to set up the MSI Afterburner overlay for monitoring PC performance. Follow our step-by-step guide to customize and use the overlay effectively.

www.electronicshub.org

 

[ponder]

Same system, just a new GPU.

CPU could be throttling the GPU.
In MSI afterburner look at the CPU usage when you have fps dips/stutters. The CPU utilization will be close to 100% while the GPU utilization will drop from 99/100% to a lower value.

This commonly happens when upgrading to a more powerful GPU and the CPU can't keep up with feeding the GPU.

One way to overcome this is to run the stuttering games at higher settings/resolution. Lowering settings taxes the CPU harder.

 

[RedViking]

OP, basically games that stream resources into memory real-time are the ones that are giving you issues.

You have low specs in terms of this task:

- Dual Core CPU
- Low VRAM (by today's standards)
- Low RAM (16GB is the sweet spot)

I don't know what else is running on your machine but assume that 3GB (optimistic) of that 8GB is taken. So you have 5GB of RAM.

If we try and guess what is happening, the more complex titles are swapping out resources constantly while you're playing.

They're doing this because of the memory constraint, but also, you're feeling that spike much more because of the HDD. No SSD to quickly load means these resources stream in much slower.

Lastly, what's your PSU? The above might not be the issue, but the more demanding titles might be choking your power delivery.

Yet OP experienced no issues when he had the NVIDIA card. AMD cards are more resource hungry?

 

[Lupus]

Yet OP experienced no issues when he had the NVIDIA card. AMD cards are more resource hungry?

The newer card could be causing bottlenecks.

 

[ponder]

Yet OP experienced no issues when he had the NVIDIA card. AMD cards are more resource hungry?

A gtx750ti would not have been an issue for his CPU compared to the much more powerful rx580.

 

[RedViking]

A gtx750ti would not have been an issue for his CPU compared to the much more powerful rx580.

I saw you post and get what you say. I have not considered that his CPU might be throttling the card.

 

[Agent67]

Rocket League at 1080p Medium. No stuttering.

 

[ponder]

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Rocket League at 1080p Medium. No stuttering.

But that tells us nothing about the games that do have an issue.

 

[Agent67]

But that tells us nothing about the games that do have an issue.

Yeah. I know. I just posted that first to show how the others operate. I'll test the games that do have an issue after load shedding.

 

[Intox]

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Yeah. I know. I just posted that first to show how the others operate. I'll test the games that do have an issue after load shedding.

Rocket League at 1080p Medium. No stuttering.

Add the Frametime as a graph to the On-Screen display when you test the problematic games.

Separately what I have found to help stutter issues sometimes is disable Vsync and cap the framerate using Radeon Chill with Min and Max the same value , say 60fps on both min and max.

 

[ponder]

Yeah. I know. I just posted that first to show how the others operate. I'll test the games that do have an issue after load shedding.

Afterburner has a logging feature, use that to record a few minutes of the game that stutters most and attach the log file here. It provides nice graphs easy to read.

 

[Mephisto_Helix]

Not sure if you've tried enabling Windwos "Game Mode"?

My stuttering only buggered off when I disabled that shyte. Every couple of updates it likes to re-enable itself and the choppy is back.

 

[Agent67]

Results after playing one full game of Conquest on Battlefield V. 1080p Low, no VSync.

Stuttering AND screen tearing...

 

[zll]

Same system, just a new GPU.

Did you switch from AMD to Nvidia or vice-versa? If yes, have you removed the old drivers properly?

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

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Results after playing one full game of Conquest on Battlefield V. 1080p Low, no VSync.

Stuttering AND screen tearing...

Very high CPU usage...

 

[Agent67]

Very high CPU usage...

Give it to me straight doc...

 

[Agent67]

Did you switch from AMD to Nvidia or vice-versa? If yes, have you removed the old drivers properly?

Vice-versa, and yes I did using DDU.

 

[zll]

Vice-versa, and yes I did using DDU.

Are you running dual channel memory? Or just a single 8GB stick?

 

[NR7]

So I'm getting stuttering in various PC games for some reason.

Specs:

i3-7100
8 GB RAM

Firstly, 2 cores and 8Gb of RAM is just not enough these days. If you want to play games smoothly, you really need to aim for a setup with at least 4 cores with 16Gb (2x8Gb) DDR4 3000Mhz.


But I know that's expensive so let's have a look at everything else.

Do you have 2x4Gb or a single 8Gb stick instead? If you only have one stick, that's worse as single channel is seriously stuttery in gaming.
When I had to send ram for repairs, I ran one stick and even with an i9 and GTX1080Ti it made Gears of War 5 stutter.

If you only have one 8Gb stick, I would suggest starting with adding a second stick of roughly the same speed/latency (we can help you check this in CPU-Z).
I would also suggest reformatting Windows and using the latest drivers - I've been surprised in the past at how much of a difference it can actually make.


Edit : Also, I see your GPU is downclocking a lot from the Afterburner screenshots. Go into the NVIDIA Control Panel and change the settings for Battlefield so that it's set to Prefer Maximum Performance. Should keep the GPU from downclocking.