games "pausing" for a second while playing

Mightyashy · 2 Jun 2014 at 20:40

Got a strange problem with some games when playing. They will be smooth as butter but its almost like if it loads a section or something there is a second pause then it jumps back smooth. Is this normal?

Setup:
780ti SLI
4770k @ 3.5ghz
16gb 2133 ram
500gb evo ssd
Z87X-OC board

At the moment running games at 1080p (been waiting to upgrade my monitors). Battlefield 4 is bad for it (single player). Crysis 3 does it, Watchdogs and a few others. Is it something in my setup? CPU needs overclocking or something? Using the latest NV drivers.

Thanks for any advice

Wizzfizz · 2 Jun 2014 at 20:41

What PSU have you got?

pgi947 · 2 Jun 2014 at 20:45

I've had this before from 2 different errors.

Firstly was having the disk drive go to sleep after 20 mins inactive (default I think). Go to power management and set to never.

Second time was directly related to not having the correct chipset drivers from Intel installed.

Boomstick777 · 2 Jun 2014 at 20:45

If you haven't already, try unparking your cores. Fixed this type of stuttering for me in every game.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18576413

Mightyashy · 2 Jun 2014 at 20:52

Wizzfizz said:
What PSU have you got?

corsair 1200w

pgi947 said:
I've had this before from 2 different errors.

Firstly was having the disk drive go to sleep after 20 mins inactive (default I think). Go to power management and set to never.

Second time was directly related to not having the correct chipset drivers from Intel installed.

just checked and its set to never. also got the samsung magician software on and thats set to maximum performance.

with regards to the chipset drivers, I can remove and reinstall, just to make sure im not being a tool which are the ones to use for a gigabyte Z87X-OC?

Boomstick777 said:
If you haven't already, try unparking your cores. Fixed this type of stuttering for me in every game.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18576413

funnily enough I found your thread and did this when I first got BF4, just checked again and they are all showing as unparked

Mightyashy · 5 Jun 2014 at 13:06

anyone else got any suggestions what I can try?

JonSmith · 5 Jun 2014 at 13:12

Update sound card drivers as this can be caused by high DPC latency.

ubersonic · 5 Jun 2014 at 13:19

If one of the games is Watchdogs then yes it is normal

Mightyashy · 5 Jun 2014 at 13:40

JonSmith said:
Update sound card drivers as this can be caused by high DPC latency.

using onboard sound, think its worth doing the full chipset?

ubersonic said:
If one of the games is Watchdogs then yes it is normal

haha! ive left it alone for now. just happens in others too

Yaayuh! · 5 Jun 2014 at 14:39

You haven't got anything running int he background that might cause this have you? AV scan or something updating.

Mightyashy · 5 Jun 2014 at 15:52

Rossi~ said:
You haven't got anything running int he background that might cause this have you? AV scan or something updating.

dont think so mate, will try and close everything I can and see if its still the same.

Guest2 · 5 Jun 2014 at 16:19

First thing I would try is removing one of the 780s.

Could be an SLI issue

JonSmith · 5 Jun 2014 at 16:26

I'd update all the motherboard drivers including the sound.

Daftbrown · 5 Jun 2014 at 16:32

I'm curious at to why you've got the bells and whistles of a system, SLI etc, yet are running your unlocked 'K' processor at stock, and on an OC board?

Just curiosity, not looking for trouble

Doesn't help your stutter issue (would if I could!), but it's free performance

Guest2 · 5 Jun 2014 at 17:22

I wouldnt personally bother with anything driver related first.

Remove one of the 780s, remove soundscard / disable on board sound.

Basically take the PC to its bare minimum to function. Same as when troubleshooting why a machine wont even boot up

Then look at drivers

Heisenberg · 5 Jun 2014 at 18:03

I had similar probs with my system. Forcing the offending games to high priority in task manager cured it for me. Don't know what was causing it tbh.

arc@css · 5 Jun 2014 at 18:09

Boomstick777 said:
If you haven't already, try unparking your cores. Fixed this type of stuttering for me in every game.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18576413

I don't get stuttering, but I'll try this out and see if there's anything worth noting. Does it only apply to dual / multi-gpu systems?

wazza300 · 5 Jun 2014 at 19:17

is the evo in rapid mode? that will read/write to and from the memory so might be worth testing with it disabled

Mightyashy · 5 Jun 2014 at 19:32

Heisenberg said:
I had similar probs with my system. Forcing the offending games to high priority in task manager cured it for me. Don't know what was causing it tbh.

how do I do that mate?

wazza300 said:
is the evo in rapid mode? that will read/write to and from the memory so might be worth testing with it disabled

Yep, evo is in rapid mode. Will give that a whirl

Daftbrown said:
I'm curious at to why you've got the bells and whistles of a system, SLI etc, yet are running your unlocked 'K' processor at stock, and on an OC board?

Just curiosity, not looking for trouble

Doesn't help your stutter issue (would if I could!), but it's free performance

Long story... haha! bought an overclocked bundle from ocuk as I dont really know what im doing with overclocking. arrived with a broken bios and was actually running at 800mhz haha! switched to the backup bios which didnt have the settings and all worked fine, literally just never bothered to sort it back out. Would it cause bottlenecks or something do you think? also if I used turbo or something in the mobo settings would that be as good as the ocuk overclock? was at 4.6ghz

Mightyashy · 5 Jun 2014 at 19:33

Guest2 said:
I wouldnt personally bother with anything driver related first.

Remove one of the 780s, remove soundscard / disable on board sound.

Basically take the PC to its bare minimum to function. Same as when troubleshooting why a machine wont even boot up

Then look at drivers

ok mate, will give that a go. Is disabling SLI good enough or do I literally need to remove the card?