Asus ROG Swift Stuttering Problem

kirsty123 · 16 Jun 2015 at 20:17

Bought this monitor last month and since playing on the Witcher 3 have had problems with stuttering especially in highly populated areas. Two things that have helped are turning the settings from ultra to high (which I would prefer not to do to be honest) and turning g sync off altogether which completely goes against the reasons I bought this highly priced monitor for in the first place.

Has this happened to anyone else or does anyone know if it is a problem with The Witcher 3 alone?

Should I return it as it isn't fit for purpose if I have to put up with this.

Any help appreciated.

Rroff · 16 Jun 2015 at 20:19

Do you get problems with any other games or just The Witcher 3?

Eilua · 16 Jun 2015 at 20:53

kirsty123 said:
Bought this monitor last month and since playing on the Witcher 3 have had problems with stuttering especially in highly populated areas. Two things that have helped are turning the settings from ultra to high (which I would prefer not to do to be honest) and turning g sync off altogether which completely goes against the reasons I bought this highly priced monitor for in the first place.

Has this happened to anyone else or does anyone know if it is a problem with The Witcher 3 alone?

Should I return it as it isn't fit for purpose if I have to put up with this.

Any help appreciated.

I have precisely the same problem with my swift and a 980ti. Pretty sure it's just a problem with the game / game engine. Doesn't seem to effect tons of people though so not sure what the cause is.

Running through White Orchard at a solid 70+ FPS without any dips and I get stuttering. I find that it's the worst when I first load into the game but then when returning into the same villages for a second time it's much less pronounced. It's also mostly completely smooth in the open world, even when my reported fps is lower.

Also, might be worth mentioning on the off chance you have GPU-Z running in the background to close it. I've noticed (no idea why it does this, anyone know?) that with my sensor updates set to 1 second, when dragging the window on the desktop it stutters every time it refreshes and in game will also cause stuttering once per second when moving the camera quickly.

I actually thought my monitor was on it's way out less than a month after I bought it while playing WoW because I was getting crazy stuttering before realizing GPU-Z was the culprit!

Never had any other these issues on my last monitor. Is the problem related to 60hz+ refresh rate or G-sync? Also, when are Nvidia finally going to fix the drivers so they don't enable G-sync on desktop!!

Glanza · 16 Jun 2015 at 20:57

It's not your monitor, I get it occasionally in Gwent games.

Phixsator · 16 Jun 2015 at 22:02

OP do you have the gsync hotfix driver installed? if not maybe give that a go?

kirsty123 · 16 Jun 2015 at 23:17

Eilua said:
I have precisely the same problem with my swift and a 980ti. Pretty sure it's just a problem with the game / game engine. Doesn't seem to effect tons of people though so not sure what the cause is.

Running through White Orchard at a solid 70+ FPS without any dips and I get stuttering. I find that it's the worst when I first load into the game but then when returning into the same villages for a second time it's much less pronounced. It's also mostly completely smooth in the open world, even when my reported fps is lower.

Also, might be worth mentioning on the off chance you have GPU-Z running in the background to close it. I've noticed (no idea why it does this, anyone know?) that with my sensor updates set to 1 second, when dragging the window on the desktop it stutters every time it refreshes and in game will also cause stuttering once per second when moving the camera quickly.

I actually thought my monitor was on it's way out less than a month after I bought it while playing WoW because I was getting crazy stuttering before realizing GPU-Z was the culprit!

Never had any other these issues on my last monitor. Is the problem related to 60hz+ refresh rate or G-sync? Also, when are Nvidia finally going to fix the drivers so they don't enable G-sync on desktop!!

Ahh, yes I do have GPU-Z running. I will try this, thank you.

Also it seems to happen a lot worse after visiting a certain merchant and then going back outside, even though it was fine before going in there?

Strange!

kirsty123 · 16 Jun 2015 at 23:18

Phixsator said:
OP do you have the gsync hotfix driver installed? if not maybe give that a go?

Yes I do. Thanks anyway.

kirsty123 · 16 Jun 2015 at 23:23

Rroff said:
Do you get problems with any other games or just The Witcher 3?

Now I think about it Killing Floor 2 had slight stutter but I put it down to the game not being released fully. Everything else seems to be fine, although I have not spent as much time on any game as I have on The Witcher 3 so I couldn't say for sure.