Is stuttering in games just the norm?

Yep temps are good. I've put the OS on my Sabrent as that is much cooler than my corsair evo plus..

I've been looking at task manager when i'm just on the desktop, have firefox, spotify and hwinfo open. When the stutters happen, it seems CPU 6 is spiking, hardly any usage other than the spike. Could it be this, and why would only one core (or thread) spike?

Edit: Other threads are also spiking.. not sure what it can be.. its a fresh install of windows and this has happened on my previous build as well. Can only think of it being the ram, will buy another set and test it.
 
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I have xmp profile one on. Could it be voltage related etc? Its team group 3200mhz ddr4 2x16gb bought from oc..

I've noticed the rated timings on the oc item page don't match what it says in my bios, think that could be it?
 
Had Windows force-install an Nvidia update yesterday as I took too long (months) to manually update. Caused unbelievable stuttering. Presumably you've manually installed Nvidia driver and not allowed Windows to install its shoddy one? Was also reading that there's a Nvidia hotfix for stutter issues for the latest driver as well. Overlays were mentioned as the likely trigger and they are looking into that.
 
It's probably some stupid Windows task. I keep my PC as clean as I can to avoid this sort of thing. Another good one for causing glitches when you are playing games online is Windows anti-virus (or indeed any anti-virus that real-time checks file downloads). For this reason I exclude games folders from the anti-virus scanning folders. If you have Steam then exclude the entire Steam folder.
 
Thanks all.

I have the latest motherboard bios and chipset drivers. Have the latest Nvidia driver but windows may have also installed something, I'll have a look.

Will look into the antivirus as well, but it's stuttering on the desktop as well.. hmm.. such a pain. Wish they would make a Windows 'gaming os'.. similar to Xbox.. but just to play games.
 
Have you tried the high performance power profile? I get occasional stuttering in some games (Battlefront2 is the worst offender) - 5900x, 3080, MSI x570 Ace. I was putting it down to poor optimisation or my beta bios...
 
adrichardson81 said:
Have you tried the high performance power profile? I get occasional stuttering in some games (Battlefront2 is the worst offender) - 5900x, 3080, MSI x570 Ace. I was putting it down to poor optimisation or my beta bios...
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I usually use high performance but put it to balanced per AMD but will try this. Thanks.
 
Doubt it is causing issues in your case, but here is my little stuttering story

I was going crazy trying to fix an intermittent stutter, game would regularly freeze or go very slow for a second.
Drivers, power profiles, removing overclocks, windows reinstalls, you name it. After a while the stutter would always come back.

The culprit was me setting automatic background image switching. When pointed at a folder with 1000s of images, windows would stop the world while it picks a next random image.

Lesson is, stutter is usually IO related, but in weird cases it will be Windows background kernel level tasks (why I hate all antivirus and Cortana search services).
 
smeemi said:
I usually use high performance but put it to balanced per AMD but will try this. Thanks.
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Do you have separate power cables feeding the PSU as opposed to one with a splitter?

It could be a good idea to log data via HWINFO while you run a game where it stutters and compare it to another person. It's just CSV data so it's easily graphed.
 
If it happened before and after a complete rebuild I'd be looking at anything that's common to both.

I bought this akasa USB hub a few months ago to easily be able to connect external drives, plugged my keyboard into it and noticed stuttering as every few minutes it would be re-discovered by Windows causing a small freeze (on desktop and games). Are you using the same mouse/keyboard? Anything else plugged into USB?
 
Mesai said:
Do you have separate power cables feeding the PSU as opposed to one with a splitter?

It could be a good idea to log data via HWINFO while you run a game where it stutters and compare it to another person. It's just CSV data so it's easily graphed.
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Yup two separate 6+2 pin PCI e.

badbiddy said:
If it happened before and after a complete rebuild I'd be looking at anything that's common to both.

I bought this akasa USB hub a few months ago to easily be able to connect external drives, plugged my keyboard into it and noticed stuttering as every few minutes it would be re-discovered by Windows causing a small freeze (on desktop and games). Are you using the same mouse/keyboard? Anything else plugged into USB?
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Yup same mouse and keyboard by Logitech. Nothing else plugged in.
 
The common items are power supply, ram, graphics card. SSD I had the same problem when both the sabrent and Samsung has an OS on it.

Thinking of getting new ram to try.
 
Things in common we already looked at:
- monitor

Things in common it won't be:
- mouse/keyboard

Other things in common:
- network/internet
- software (the games)

Tell us about your network/internet set up. Show speedtest results.
 
Are your mouse/keyboard plugged directly into the PC or go via monitor USB for example?

You can test your RAM with memtest (don't need new RAM). But as others have said, it'd be more likely to cause crashing than stuttering.
 
badbiddy said:
Are your mouse/keyboard plugged directly into the PC or go via monitor USB for example?

You can test your RAM with memtest (don't need new RAM). But as others have said, it'd be more likely to cause crashing than stuttering.
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Directly into pc. Tried one full test with memtest and no errors.

something daft already!! said:
When it stutters, are you seeing hard drive activity? Have you checked your hard drives for errors? Maybe run a scan disk to check. Are you using an SSD or HDD or both?
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Only two m.2 ssds. Will check this tonight.
 
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