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Can you get rid of microstutter?

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According to this - http://www.overclock.net/amd-ati/410272-4870x2-vista-eliminate-microstutter.html you can get rid of microstuttering by changing the PCI latency times.
Can anyone confirm this? Does this only work with older components?
I'm using 5850x2 and a gigabyte 890fxa-ud5 motherboard.

I've also read that setting the gpu/memory clock speeds of the second card to be higher than the first card works but it didn't help for me.

I've experienced MS constantly in COD2, COD4 and HAWX and occasionally in BC2.

This link http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1523306 shows someone who claims that shutting down CCC.exe or/and MOM.exe fixes the problem but I wonder if shutting down CCC would stop CF from working and thats why it appeared to have been fixed it when it hadn't.

Has anyone been successful in eliminating microstutter from a game where it was happening consistently?
 
Just got a second 5850 for CF, no hint of stutter in BFBC2. I'm quite sensitive to stutter/mouse lag/tearing

Running at x8 x8 on an Asus M4A89gtd Pro with a 1055t @4.0GHz with 4GB 1600mhz DDR3. Not changed any bios settings, just plugged it in and enabled CF in Cats 11.8
Since I got a second card I've definitely had an improvement in frame rate in BFBC2 and it runs smoothly most of the time but I've experienced microstutter also crashes and parts of the map going black.
amd optimised games don't microstutter on amd cards... Crysis2 microstutter was awefull on my rig so i binned the game what a load of ***** it was anyway!
Crysis 2 (also Crysis) is one of the only games where after getting a second card I've had a significant improvement in performance without any problems going along with it. Dirt 2 showed an increase in frame rate but it was already above my monitors refresh rate so I didn't notice it.
Changing PCI latency timer will do nothing to help with microstutter, AMD optimised games suffer from microstutter just as much/little as any other, they certainly can't eliminate it on AMD setups even with AMD optimised games.

There are various things that can make microstutter worse and much more noticeable.

If you want to reduce microstutter as much as possible ideally you need a setup thats holding atleast 60fps minimum and artificially being limited to somewhere around 60-90fps. Unfortunatly VSync isn't always the best way to achieve this due to more complicated issues.
On the HAWX benchmark my max FPS was over 200 and the minimum (or possibly average) was over 100 but I still notice the MS straight away with v-sync on/off.
 
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