Diablo III - Jitter / Stutter problem

Arthur Hucksake

Arthur Hucksake

Arthur Hucksake

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Hi folks,

I'm quite sensitive to frame rate dips and changes and the worst type of fps issue for me is when games stutter. It drives me up the wall. You could do your best to ignore it, but once you see it you cannot unsee it if it makes sense.

I get what can only be described as a very slight jitter. I notice it mostly when your running sideways and the screen is scrolling. It was pretty awful in the fields of misery (think thats what they were called)

Micro stutter could be another buzz phrase used, but I haven't noticed it in any other games I play right now.

My system is an i7 2600k @ 4.5Ghz , 8GB Ram, 2x 570 GTX SLI and I tried running the game off my second SSD (240GB Vertex 2E) with the same results.

Tried the latest 301.42 drivers and previous beta set, same issue.

Unchecking the min / max fps sliders doesn't seem to effect anything. Neither does setting affinity to just two cores.

I have a 120hz monitor, but setting it to 60hz in windows did improve things a little.

Sometimes it doesn't happen at all, especially in dungeons.

I just cannot work out whether it is latency/network related or graphical.

I've seen youtube videos of stuttering people get but it's not as bad as that. It's just annoying and slight.

Any ideas?
 
If you're willing to sacrifice some resolution that might help some. I think with Diablo 3 (i'm playing it too) it's more issues with their end. If you notice you rarely get an actually good latency.

Latency on Diablo 3 can be seen on the vertical bar to the left of your resource ball on the right, just hover the mouse over it.

I often find myself playing on a good day, 150 ms and more typically around 300 ms. I've checked my internet and all seems fine so I making the assumption it's a Blizzard server problem.

I don't really know what i'm talking about that much, but that is what I'd say is the cause.
 
This is not related to internet lag.

I had something similar on a similarly high-end machine (ATI 7950) and fixed it by editing the D3Prefs.txt file and changing the settings for trillinear filtering. Others had success by changing other settings, I'm not at home so don't know the names (device class I believe).

I also suspect there is some conflict with the power saving options on my machine - the game performance is a lot worse if I use the "power saver" setting in windows.

Who knows, maybe there are improvements in the patch.
 
It's a problem Blizzard's end. Loads of people are having it with a whole variety of set up's (AMD and nVidia). Wait for the fix. 570 SLI is more than enough to power D3 so as you say, definitely not a frame rate issue.

p.s. I don't have it :D
 
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