Advice please

Hammi · 11 Apr 2013 at 10:13

Hello gents

Ok so I am getting annoyed with my gtx 680 sli set up. Getting stutter, slow down etc in many games tomb raider I get FPS drops and bad micro stutter, crysis 3, etc .. I have latest drivers.

When I disable sli yes I get the FPS drop but the game seems much smoother. Should I sell them and get a Titan ?? I have had 6950 x fire before the 680 sli and had no issues like this. I am gaming at 1080p and 120Hz but plan on upgrading monitor soon.

Thank you

Rusty0611 · 11 Apr 2013 at 11:03

Have you tried Adaptive Vsync mate?

Hammi · 11 Apr 2013 at 11:09

yes tried that and it works in some games.
But take tomb raider and adaptive vsync awful stutter turn it off and use in game vsync much better but lots of slow down

LtMatt · 11 Apr 2013 at 11:09

Sounds like you need to enable frame metering.

Hammi · 11 Apr 2013 at 11:13

LtMatt said:
Sounds like you need to enable frame metering.

Tell me more

LtMatt · 11 Apr 2013 at 11:15

Hammi said:
Tell me more

I don't know much about it or how you enable it only that its a Nvidia feature which is supposed to eliminate or minimise micro stutter. Someone here with a SLI setup will know what to do.

Hammi · 11 Apr 2013 at 11:17

LtMatt said:
I don't know much about it or how you enable it only that its a Nvidia feature which is supposed to eliminate or minimise micro stutter. Someone here with a SLI setup will know what to do.

Thank you it's google time.

LtMatt · 11 Apr 2013 at 11:19

Hammi said:
Thank you it's google time.

No problem. Google always has the answer to everything.

Hammi · 11 Apr 2013 at 11:21

very true but I can't find it this time

Hammi · 11 Apr 2013 at 11:43

so it's enabled by default any other ideas?

tommybhoy · 11 Apr 2013 at 11:47

Cap your framerate to 58 fps in AB using rivatuner.

Ian Evey · 11 Apr 2013 at 11:49

Is the stutter there whenever the frame rate drops below 60fps ? i notice this in farcry 3 a lot when the framerate drops below 60fps to even 58fps i get stutter, when at 60 fps i get no stutter.

Hammi · 11 Apr 2013 at 11:51

Ian Evey said:
Is the stutter there whenever the frame rate drops below 60fps ? i notice this in farcry 3 a lot when the framerate drops below 60fps to even 58fps i get stutter, when at 60 fps i get no stutter.

using 120Hz monitor and its there both above and below 120fps. I can be at 120Fps and it feels like its chugging.

LtMatt · 11 Apr 2013 at 11:54

Hammi said:
using 120Hz monitor and its there both above and below 120fps. I can be at 120Fps and it feels like its chugging.

I thought frame metering fixed that? :confused:

andybird123 · 11 Apr 2013 at 11:54

try turning off VSYNC both in nvidia control panel and in game, then download EVGA precision and use the FPS limit function in that instead, set to 119FPS

andybird123 · 11 Apr 2013 at 11:55

what CPU/motherboard do you have?

Hammi · 11 Apr 2013 at 12:03

I will try the evga frame limiter as I use this to oc them. Also running i5 [email protected] and asus p8p67 pro rev3.1

EVGAdominik · 11 Apr 2013 at 13:24

Hi, make sure the 3d Settings in the NVIDIA control panel are set to performance instead of quality. Have you already tried if you will face same issues without overclock on the CPU? Are the GPUs overclocked when you see this issue?

harshuk · 11 Apr 2013 at 13:29

I look more into your cpu with some meters or something I can't believe your cards are causing your problem.

Hammi · 11 Apr 2013 at 14:06

EVGAdominik said:
Hi, make sure the 3d Settings in the NVIDIA control panel are set to performance instead of quality. Have you already tried if you will face same issues without overclock on the CPU? Are the GPUs overclocked when you see this issue?

Both with and without the oc also set the performance rather than quality