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Plagued by stuttering [980ti]

Phixsator

Phixsator

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So as some of you might remember back when the 980ti was released i wrote i had stuttering issues and the later reported to have fixed them. Well it seems to be the everlasting curse as of late as it is back again and have been for a while. It seems updating drivers solves stuttering in one game but breaks something in another game causing stuttering.

Its also difficult to figure out when the game is to blame or nvidia. Dont get me wrong the fps number is great in 90% of the game i have played.

When i look up stuttering issues its mainly the maxwell 900 series that gets mentioned. Also my old 780 lightning was such a pleasent card to work with. Had no issues ever with it besides the whole witcher 3 scandal.

I can play games like World of Tanks and all the other "World of" F2p games without issue, all blizzard titles with the exception of diablo 3(but that is certainly on blizz) seems to work without issue, smaller games like Insurgency and divinity Original Sin also seems work fine. Games like Witcher 3, GTA 5, Killing floor 2(to a lesser degree) are all terrible and im either played by microstutter(witcher 3) or sudden unexplainable fps drops and this isnt even on the highest of settings.

Do i just have to accept this is how gaming on pc is for the moment? Ive tried every god **** revision from the release driver to the most recent battlefront whql driver and sometimes a problem is fixed but then a new one arises causing issues that i cannot look past. While the 980ti is surely a solid piece of hardware the stuttering i have from time to time is really killing the enjoyment to the point where i just wish i had saved the 620 pounds and kept my old 780. Cause right now i dont feel like playing big tripple A titles for which i would need the horsepower.

What am i missing? is it windows 10? cause i have similar issues on 8.1. Im more than open to suggestions.

Right now im running on Dev driver 356.04 which seems to be the best in a while. I dont have any desktop issues but performance in GTA 5 isnt great and neither in witcher 3.
 
I was going to post I hadn't noticed this but then I realised actually very occasionally I have seen the fps drop, I tend to always have fraps or Afterburner running with the stats service monitoring fps.

I think I've not made too much of it because most of the time it is temporary and just fixes itself (I also assumed maybe something kicked off in the background) or I've exited and started the game again and carried on. Not had to reboot that I remember.

It's one of those situation where you have to turn of any overclocking, stop any unnecessary background progs, unplug peripherals and maybe even swap out some hardware if possible.

Sorry but on my system Witcher 3 runs at 55-60 fps @ 3440x1440 with HW turned off. GTA plays at 60 fps @ 4K at high settings (all offline gaming, turbo @ 1450 MHz). That's on Windows 10.
 
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Stuttering is a nightmare and something I was seeing far too often in games with SLI but never seen it on a single GPU with G-Sync. I have not played WoT but could it be an Internet thing? Maybe a slow HDD? Possibly a clean windows install if all else fails?
 
Gregster said:
Stuttering is a nightmare and something I was seeing far too often in games with SLI but never seen it on a single GPU with G-Sync. I have not played WoT but could it be an Internet thing? Maybe a slow HDD? Possibly a clean windows install if all else fails?
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Just to be clear. WoT works wonders.. internet is fiber 100/100 and is rock solid. Been through cleaning the OS install so many times i cannot count how many. Slow harddrive is doubtful cause i usually test on my SSD.

I tried removing the OC on my panel and go back to 60hz and stuttering and framedrops in gta 5 went away but the panel had never been frameskipping or anything. I then put it on a dual link dvi cable to an active hdmi "converter thingy" and the stuttering in gta5 seems to have gone away even when OCed to 75hz, this is using the new whql for the battlefront beta.

Problem is i know its going to return as ive managed to reduce/remove stutter in one or 2 games before and then as times goes by and i then start playing another it returns.

But it seems im among the few to have this issue here then? no other maxwell users who suffer from stuttering or microstuttering? While that sucks for me its great for the rest of you :) So darn difficult to figure out when its the game and when its something else that is at fault.
 
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rexehuk said:
Do you have intel RST installed?
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I have tried in the past.. atm i dont have it as the last time i installed it on Win 10 something went wrong and performance went to hell. Its one of the first things i do install though when on win 7/8/8.1.

Got a link to a driver that actually works on win 10?
 
Phixsator said:
I have tried in the past.. atm i dont have it as the last time i installed it on Win 10 something went wrong and performance went to hell. Its one of the first things i do install though when on win 7/8/8.1.

Got a link to a driver that actually works on win 10?
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I'd say don't install it... I was going down the route that if you had it, remove it and check back.

I get stuttering on laptop, and heavily suspect RST.
 
Try running your monitor at 60hz and then using the framerate limiter in RTSS set to 59. This works utter wonders for my setup for a few troublesome games with stutter, notably witcher 3 and GTA5!

This is for SLI and gsync in my case. One of my 780Tis with gsync is fine and no stutter, but the framerate just ain't high enough compared to two cards.

I made a specific post about witcher 3 a while back here which also features an nvidia inspector SLI bits tweak http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18677820

Without doing the trick above I sometimes think it's ok, but then I remember to do the fix and it's just so much smoother it's unreal and overall performance is better with fewer dips under 60.
 
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OLDPHART said:
+1, lock your GPS fps to match your monitors refreshrate, no need to lower your Game settings.
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For me the key thing is to lock fps to one frame under, not to match. I should emphasise my fixes are for Gsync and SLI only, so may not be relevant to all

To the OP - You're using a 2560 x 1080 superwide monitor? You mention it clocks to 75Hz so I'm guessing your using the Dell u2913wm or a similar LG?
Apart from my Rog swift I also have the Dell u29 2560 x 1080 that clocks to 75Hz. I only game on the gsync swift now though. I'm guessing you're not running it overclocked all the time and have tried it at default 60 (so no frameskipping)?

ALSO......you haven't mentioned what you're doing with regards to good old Vsync??? Do you have it on or off? The biggest reason I got the Gsync swift was the awful stutter and little judders that vsync causes when framerates go below your monitor refresh rate. And I could never play without vsync, tearing is even worse to me.

I hate to say it but unless you play with vsync off and suffer the tears, or unless you have the GPU grunt to comfortably maintain 60FPS at all times and therefore constantly match your monitor refresh rate at all times, with vsync on you will not get totally smooth performance in lots of games.

If you are sensitive to stutter and any little judder/ micropauses then a Gsync monitor really is the best solution, sorry. If you ever go SLI though you will still encounter some stutter issues, but give me a shout and I might have a solution.
 
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I have only ever had stuttering on a 980Ti once, and that's when I left the fans to manual 20% or something in Afterburner by accident, so I assume massive thermal throttling caused it.

Have you tried a custom fan curve (via MSI Afterburner) since it's a reference card?
 
That's a good point I'm frame limiting with in Witcher 3 as I have a UHD monitor but of course they are pretty much limited to 60 Hz.
 
I've had a similar problem to this in the past and it turned out to be caused by my cpu overclock. Battlefield 4 was the most prominent. Are you overlocked? If so, knock it back to default and see how you get on.

I had a problem with USB drivers causing stuttering once too but that was resolved by only using the Intel slots on my board.
 
OLDPHART said:
+1, lock your FPS fps to match your monitors refreshrate, no need to lower your Game settings.
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I already do this to avoid the 95% of the input lag from vsync.

As i said earlier gta is playing nice for the moment but witcher seems like a lost cause also 3d clocks are getting stuck all the time preventing the card from going idle.. This seems to happen all the ffing time when using most of the WHQL drivers for whatever reason.. its piffing me off.

But thanks for all the suggestions.. ill have a look over and see if any of those i havent tried might work.
 
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