games "pausing" for a second while playing

[Mightyashy]

Got a strange problem with some games when playing. They will be smooth as butter but its almost like if it loads a section or something there is a second pause then it jumps back smooth. Is this normal?

Setup:
780ti SLI
4770k @ 3.5ghz
16gb 2133 ram
500gb evo ssd
Z87X-OC board

At the moment running games at 1080p (been waiting to upgrade my monitors). Battlefield 4 is bad for it (single player). Crysis 3 does it, Watchdogs and a few others. Is it something in my setup? CPU needs overclocking or something? Using the latest NV drivers.

Thanks for any advice

 

[Mightyashy]

What PSU have you got?

corsair 1200w

I've had this before from 2 different errors.

Firstly was having the disk drive go to sleep after 20 mins inactive (default I think). Go to power management and set to never.

Second time was directly related to not having the correct chipset drivers from Intel installed.

just checked and its set to never. also got the samsung magician software on and thats set to maximum performance.

with regards to the chipset drivers, I can remove and reinstall, just to make sure im not being a tool which are the ones to use for a gigabyte Z87X-OC?

If you haven't already, try unparking your cores. Fixed this type of stuttering for me in every game.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18576413

funnily enough I found your thread and did this when I first got BF4, just checked again and they are all showing as unparked

 

[Mightyashy]

anyone else got any suggestions what I can try?

 

[Mightyashy]

Update sound card drivers as this can be caused by high DPC latency.

using onboard sound, think its worth doing the full chipset?

If one of the games is Watchdogs then yes it is normal

haha! ive left it alone for now. just happens in others too

 

[Mightyashy]

You haven't got anything running int he background that might cause this have you? AV scan or something updating.

dont think so mate, will try and close everything I can and see if its still the same.

 

[Mightyashy]

I had similar probs with my system. Forcing the offending games to high priority in task manager cured it for me. Don't know what was causing it tbh.

how do I do that mate?

is the evo in rapid mode? that will read/write to and from the memory so might be worth testing with it disabled

Yep, evo is in rapid mode. Will give that a whirl

I'm curious at to why you've got the bells and whistles of a system, SLI etc, yet are running your unlocked 'K' processor at stock, and on an OC board?

Just curiosity, not looking for trouble

Doesn't help your stutter issue (would if I could!), but it's free performance

Long story... haha! bought an overclocked bundle from ocuk as I dont really know what im doing with overclocking. arrived with a broken bios and was actually running at 800mhz haha! switched to the backup bios which didnt have the settings and all worked fine, literally just never bothered to sort it back out. Would it cause bottlenecks or something do you think? also if I used turbo or something in the mobo settings would that be as good as the ocuk overclock? was at 4.6ghz

 

[Mightyashy]

I wouldnt personally bother with anything driver related first.

Remove one of the 780s, remove soundscard / disable on board sound.

Basically take the PC to its bare minimum to function. Same as when troubleshooting why a machine wont even boot up

Then look at drivers

ok mate, will give that a go. Is disabling SLI good enough or do I literally need to remove the card?

 

[Mightyashy]

gpu-z is showing my cards pci-bus as 3.0 x 16@ x8 1.1. is that right? all a bit baffling to me that stuff

just noticed that onboard graphics are enabled, could that cause an issue?

 

[Mightyashy]

It should be x16. Try disabling on board graphics. To force process high priority, open task manager and right click on (game name).exe and go to priority and select high. It will be on normal.

Sorry, forgot it was SLI, x8 will be correct if running multi GPU.

thanks mate, will give it a go

I know this isn't likely to be your problem since your running at stock though I found I had very similar stuttering on my FX 8350 when I overclocked. While the overclocked appeared stable in Prime95 and could play games for hours (with stuttering) I found that increasing the CPU voltage slightly got rid of my stuttering. Interestingly my CPU did it at stock to and putting the voltage up one notch got rid of the freezing/stuttering every few seconds.

I know it is very unlikely to be your problem but just posted anyways in case anyone else had stuttering

thanks mate, will try the overclock so no doubt voltage will need to be increased

OP - For overclocking the CPU, this is the guide I followed and it is specific to the Gigabyte OC and OC-Force mobos. If you don't want to read it all you'll at least find some templates to try out. And yeah, if your CPU was sold at 4.6Ghz then I'm sure it can reach that.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1401976/the-gigabyte-z87-haswell-overclocking-oc-guide

nice one, thanks for that. will give this a whirl before playing something. may as well get the free performance like you say

thinking about when the hitching occurs it can be if doing a sharp turn in an FPS. am I just running games too high? wouldnt have thought BF4 would be a problem but could it be SLI causing it maybe?

 

[Mightyashy]

What mouse are you using. I had a G5 and my games would pause and also while using using explorer,then I heard the mouse after a length of time would start playing up so I got a rat 3 . So it sorted my problem if all else fails for you.

I've got a razer orochi, using it wired though