Micro Stuttering (In most games, can anyone please help?)

JL94x4

JL94x4

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Hi all, I'll give you as much details as i can, in hope that someone can help me fix this annoying problem..

It's mainly to do with GTA V right now, however this applies to most games that I've tried to play and I'm fairly sure my GPU can handle the settings I'm throwing at it. My problem seems to be the micro stuttering that occurs even when the FPS is solid 60 throughout the stuttering, its hard to describe but the game doesn't feel "smooth" even though I'm getting 60FPS.

My setup..

Intel Core i7 3770 3.4ghz Turbo Boost 3.9ghz
Pallit GTX 760 2GB (powered by x2 6pin)
8GB RAM
600W Power Supply

What I've already tried..
- I've tried Windows 7/8/8.1/10
- I've tried uninstalling all drivers/Nvidia Experience and re-installing
- I've tried the lowest settings possible in the game
- I've tried the highest settings in game
- I've tried V sync On and Off
- I've tried to lock the FPS to 30/40/50 and 60
- I've ran the in-game benchmark that easily gets 60FPS on the settings
- I've let Nvidia Experience optimize my settings (still got the same result)
- I've tried the game on another hard drive (just incase the one I'm using isn't fast enough)

So yeah, i need to get this game running smoothly at 60FPS, without the micro stuttering. Its really annoying to have spend so much money on my machine/games for them not to work as I'd like.

The question though, what do I try next?
 
Have you tried new ram?

New hard drive?

Tried a SSD?

Have you used Display Driver Uninstaller to remove all remnants of the previous drivers?

Is it overheating?

Is the graphics card hitting memory cap?

Do you have something running in the background? Like bit torrent or anti virus?

Just a few thoughts.
 
I had micro-stutter problems which I couldn't fix, tried everything everyone always suggests and still wouldn't fix it, then my 2x SSD RAID=0 corrupted so I had to re-install Win7 64 but this time I didn't RAID my SSDs and since then I've never had any micro-stutter, not changed anything else at all. No idea whether it was the RAID causing it or whether a new clean O/S Install fixed it and I don't care either way, I don't have infuriating micro-stutter anymore! :D
 
LateX'Dog said:
Have you tried new ram?

New hard drive?

Tried a SSD?

Have you used Display Driver Uninstaller to remove all remnants of the previous drivers?

Is it overheating?

Is the graphics card hitting memory cap?

Do you have something running in the background? Like bit torrent or anti virus?

Just a few thoughts.
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Thanks for your reply, i appreciate it.

Have you tried new ram?
No, both sticks are only around 8months old, this could be done as a very last resort, just in case they aren't at fault.

New hard drive?
Tried 2 separate ones so far, a 250GB and a 500GB

Tried a SSD?
Its in my plans for the future, not just yet though.

Have you used Display Driver Uninstaller to remove all remnants of the previous drivers?
Its a brand new install of windows, would i still need to do that?

Is it overheating?
The card is hitting 67c-75c whilst in game, is that too high?

Is the graphics card hitting memory cap?
1450/2106 on the lowest settings.

Do you have something running in the background? Like bit torrent or anti virus?
Nothing, only Firefox and Steam+GTA V are installed.

Hope this helps.

doofer said:
I had micro-stutter problems which I couldn't fix, tried everything everyone always suggests and still wouldn't fix it, then my 2x SSD RAID=0 corrupted so I had to re-install Win7 64 but this time I didn't RAID my SSDs and since then I've never had any micro-stutter, not changed anything else at all. No idea whether it was the RAID causing it or whether a new clean O/S Install fixed it and I don't care either way, I don't have infuriating micro-stutter anymore! :D
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Non of my hard drives are raided, and I'm currently using a freshly installed version of Windows 8.1. :(
 
LateX pretty much covered most but have you tried updating your audio drivers or disabling your audio card and testing with onboard? Not sure if it's even an issue these days but i remember a period years ago where one of my audio cards was causing hitching even when i had constantly high fps and it took rolling back to a driver a few releases back to fix.
 
Hmmm.....are you getting hitching? can you possibly record a video of it so we can get a better look and what your rez you are playing at?
 
meldarthx said:
Hmmm.....are you getting hitching? can you possibly record a video of it so we can get a better look and what your rez you are playing at?
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1080p, I'll try to get a video up as soon as i can, would me recording the gameplay not potentially make it worse than it actually is without, though?
 
you can use shadowplay and shouldn't make it worse.....its like raptr which has no performance hit when I use it to record.
 
I've had a similar problem for a while now (using NVIDIA). It started suddenly one day with most of my games and I've not been able to solve it up until now.
It might have something to do with a NVIDIA driver update, but it's difficult to test as it's tricky going back through previous driver versions, at least tricky for me.
One thing I noticed though is that only games using DirectX had this problem, games using OpenGL run perfectly.
I'm still looking for a method to force games to switch to OpenGL, but most of them wouldn't respond as I'd hoped.
Anyway the above suggestion using Display Driver Uninstaller sounds promising, I'll give that a try.
 
Well waddya know, the Display Driver Uninstaller fixed it for me, hope you have similar success, JL94x4.
I've tested two games that had the most problems: Borderlands 1 and Ziggurat; suddenly smooth as ever, again.
And so to LateX'Dog: Thank you very much for your suggestion, much appreciated.
 
npjnpj said:
Well waddya know, the Display Driver Uninstaller fixed it for me, hope you have similar success, JL94x4.
I've tested two games that had the most problems: Borderlands 1 and Ziggurat; suddenly smooth as ever, again.
And so to LateX'Dog: Thank you very much for your suggestion, much appreciated.
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Could you detail all the steps you took? The reason i ask is because i'm on a new install of windows, so i've only installed the 350.12 nvidia driver, its worth giving it a go if it worked for you, though. :)
 
I usually notice stutter cos of fluctuations in fps and a big cause is vsync most often than not. Could be out of vram or very high vram usage even tho its not full. Could be a background process like av still on or somit thats running at the bottom corner of ur screen near clock. Could be caching so a ssd helps or somit. Might be cpu issue.

Then again could be just the game.
 
do you run afterburner? I noticed that it caused stutter on my system, so I use it to set the setting at windows load, then just close it, it still uses whatever settings are setup, the worst for me was CS GO.
 
Oh one big stutter cause for me with gta v was having chrome open when playing. I alt and tabbed and closed it and it was tones better.
 
What's your pagefile set to? GTA V will attempt to use a ton of pagefile and if you're not on an SSD sometimes this can have a stutter when driving through the city. If you have enough ram you can disable pagefile (what I do) and it's bliss :D
 
I used to have my ssd pagefile set to 4gb but tbh i just changed it to let the system manage it so its 8gb now. Cant hurt.

Dont disable it whatever u do. Even if you have all the ram in the world the system still needs some pagefile sometimes. So the interwebs say at least.
 
SkeeterUK said:
I used to have my ssd pagefile set to 4gb but tbh i just changed it to let the system manage it so its 8gb now. Cant hurt.

Dont disable it whatever u do. Even if you have all the ram in the world the system still needs some pagefile sometimes. So the interwebs say at least.
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Yea I had seen a writeup stating that pagefile might be necessary but I've had it disabled for a long while. The only game that I actually had to turn it back on for was FC4 for some reason haha.
 
@ JL94x4:

1) Start Windows up normally.

2) Download the Display Driver Uninstaller (there are several sites offering the download. I used 'DDU_v14.3.0.0.exe'). When you run this .exe, it installs the uninstaller into any directory you specify.

3) Restart Windows in protected mode (hold F8 during boot, i.e. just before the Windows logo appears)

4) In protected mode, run the file 'Display Driver Uninstaller.exe', which was created in the folder you specified during the installation. Windiows then reboots automatically in normal mode.

5) Windows should re-install the NVIDIA (or other) driver from its driver library, and that's it.
 
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