R9 290 Stuttering

[snips86x]

Running a reference 290 on a 1440p IPS panel and when playing BF3, stream off BBC and 4oD, I get stuttering.

Hardware acceleration is disabled and I'm running 14.2 beta IIRC - this may not be 100% but they're new drivers.

UPLS or whatever it's called is disabled along with power play.

Suggestions please?

 

[bloodkil]

The temps on the card all good?

 

[snips86x]

Yeah. 40c idle sttetching to 60c when streaming and 75-85c gaming. Not bad for a reference card!

 

[snips86x]

Suggestions?

 

[Finners]

So your gaming and streaming at the same time?

Does it do it when not streaming?

 

[snips86x]

So your gaming and streaming at the same time?

Does it do it when not streaming?

No - gaming and streaming as 2 activities. The stuttering happens on both.

 

[snips86x]

I'm getting the same in BF4!

 

[Finners]

For BF4.

Have you made sure you have unparked your cores?

http://www.coderbag.com/Programming-C/Disable-CPU-Core-Parking-Utility

Would also limit your FPS to 70-80 unless you play with v-sync then I would try 59 with v sync enabled. with the command code

GameTime.MaxVariableFps 70

bring up the performance overlay with the console command

PerfOverlay.DrawGraph 0

and if the yellow CPU line is still spiking have a play with the GPU rendera head limit command and what ever the settings is that controls the quality of explosions

renderdevice.renderaheadlimit 1

EDIT****

Just seen you have an 290, Are you playing with mantle? mine is so so smooth with mantle compared to DX, Smoother than my nvidia card was on DX even.

 

[snips86x]

Yes I'm playing with Mantle but the graphics in general stutter!

 

[nitram100]

I get bad stutter in Battlefield 4 with my 290 occasionally, like drops to 24 frames. All other games are perfect though.

 

[borley]

As Finner says capping FPS really helps i have an MSI 290X on 120hz monitor i play on custom mainly medium settings except for Mesh(Draw distance Ultra) and cap at 100 fps hardly ever drops below that and only get occasionally get a spike.

 

[Calin Banc]

I think it's a driver/game thing. When I've played BF a few weeks back was fine, but in the past few days it was a mess. It actually helped if I've had no FPS lock.

 

[shankly1985]

I also feel games perform better when they is no frame lock. The downside is more heat.

 

[Freddie1980]

Are the cards clocks remaining stable when playing BF3/BF4 or are they fluctuating rapidly?

 

[Calin Banc]

I also feel games perform better when they is no frame lock. The downside is more heat.

I run with -(minus) 44mV, which translate itself is less heat. Try it yourself, but set the voltage in 2D when you're looking for the ideal voltage, it's far more sensitive then 3D.