Hi guys,

I have just been noticing over the last few days, that BG3 seems to stutter with Vsync turned on on my 680's.

Is anyone else having the problem?

it is there using all the latest drivers including the 301.25 beta's. The poblem somewhat goes away when vsync is disabled.

I can best describe it as a stutter ever couple of seconds, it doesn't seem to be a framerate thing as the fps stay at 60fps? i am sure I didn't have this probem with my 580's in SLI.

I think they call it Micro Stutter.

mattuk said:

I think they call it Micro Stutter.

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Thanks i know what micro stutter is, I didn't have it with my SLI 580's so I don't know why it's happening now.

It happens to people with 680 SLI and 7970 Xfire. Try setting the render ahead limit to 1 and disable triple buffering. You can do this in the in-game console by pressing the key above tab and type 'list' for a list of commands.

chipachap said:

It happens to people with 680 SLI and 7970 Xfire. Try setting the render ahead limit to 1 and disable triple buffering. You can do this in the in-game console by pressing the key above tab and type 'list' for a list of commands.

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Na easier way, download a user.cfg with the commands already in

Will do that or someone else will for you when i get back this evening

Neil79 said:

Na easier way, download a user.cfg with the commands already in

Will do that or someone else will for you when i get back this evening

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That'd be fantastic thanks.

hmm been googling quite a bit and it seems a lot of people having similar issues to me

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=226227&st=0

Turn v-sync off and use adaptive v-sync in the nvidia control panel.
It sounds like the fps is dropping below 60 every now & again which means v-sync is dropping it to 30 causing stutter.

no_1_dave said:

Turn v-sync off and use adaptive v-sync in the nvidia control panel.
It sounds like the fps is dropping below 60 every now & again which means v-sync is dropping it to 30 causing stutter.

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it does it with adaptive sync too, so i don't think its that, also its very lumpy even with vsync off when the fps doesn't drop below 70 so I think this is a driver issue, my 580's in SLI never had this problem.

Check this post below for a user cfg.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=21722421&postcount=57168

The one linked contains a performance monitoring graph for cpu/gpu, i simply added the two lines to it. Then disabled the graph.

Here have mine!, place in your BF3 folder

http://www.qfpost.com/file/d?g=SooKYHpUA

Also found this on guru, give the config file a try first ^

Every single 301.xx driver results in stutter during BF3 and Batman:AC. Still using the 300.83 release because of it... so, hoping this beta is different than the other 301s

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Interesting to see that about the 300 series drivers, currently on 301.24 here. But getting no stuttering now after using the config.

Neil79 said:

Here have mine!, place in your BF3 folder

http://www.qfpost.com/file/d?g=SooKYHpUA

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That's brilliant, did the trick!! super smooth now, so chuffed thank you all.

Excellent result. Glad you got it sorted OP. Enjoying the performance?

SLI / surround is my next upgrade. But not for at least 6 months I think.

Good good

Couldnt believe how good it made the game for me as well, so much smoother. The config i used had a very handy graph, shows that im not gpu or cpu bottleknecked in bf3 on my current settings, shame my net connection is so bad.

setter said:

Couldnt believe how good it made the game for me as well, so much smoother. The config i used had a very handy graph, shows that im not gpu or cpu bottleknecked in bf3 on my current settings, shame my net connection is so bad.

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I am going to install that one too later, would like to see the little graph!