Please Help Me Solve My Long Lasting Stutter Problem

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Hi guys. I've made similar threads on here in the past about issues regarding stuttering in my system.

Well a good few months back I completely upgraded my PC to a high end build.

GTX 4090, 7800x3D, 32gb TeamGroup DDR5 RAM. MSI 1000w PSU. If you need more specifics I can give you them. But as you can see, it should be more than capable.

Having spent so much money on this new build I've been left so disappointed with the performance mainly due to stutters in pretty much every game I try. It's really getting me down tbh. The overall FPS is great but the stutters and choppy gameplay is ruining it. Id rather have 60fps with no stutters.

The stutters are only little hitches, it'll go from say 180fps down to 173fps or something which makes a smaller stutter happen. It happens sort of every 30 seconds or so on average if I had to put a timer on it.

I play on a 1440p Alienware 280hz Monitor.

I've tried absolutely all sorts of fixes after searching the web for many hours. You've obviously got the main go to fixes like fresh Windows install, installing the graphics drivers through DDU etc. Tried XMP on/off - also tried dropping the MHz down to 5600. Gsync/Vsync on and off following the Blur Busters guide. Frame limiters. All sorts of Bios configurations and windows registry stuff. You name it I've probably tried it.

Temps seem absolutely fine when I've studied them so I don't think it's a throttling issue either.

I'm absolutely lost guys and ready to give up PC gaming all together at this point. None of my friends seem to have these issues.

If anyone can help me I'd be so grateful.

Cheers.
 
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FPS drops around 5% will be common, but if you get micro stutter head to device manager and under sounds disable Nvidia hd audio, there is a bug which can cause the power cap in charge of audio on your GPU to pull too much power, the result is the card dropping power for a brief moment, most common on Asus GPUs but other makes can be affected.
 
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What is your RAM configuration? 4x8 or 2x16 ? A few years back, I had big problems with Heaven Benchmarks (etc) and stutter until I changed from 4x8 to 2x16. This was DDR4 however, perhaps this is a non-issue with DDR5 ?
 
wookiee87 said:
FPS drops around 5% will be common, but if you get micro stutter head to device manager and under sounds disable Nvidia hd audio, there is a bug which can cause the power cap in charge of audio on your GPU to pull too much power, the result is the card dropping power for a brief moment, most common on Asus GPUs but other makes can be affected.
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Tried disabling that in the past and when I installed the new driver fresh I didn't even I stall that along with the graphics driver.
 
Quartz said:
I find it difficult to believe that such a FPS dip is even noticeable.
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It doesn't always happen but if I see a stutter I'll look at my FPS and it's only actually gone down 10fps sometimes. Obviously other times it drops more.

It even happens if I limit my FPS so it's at a steady 120 for example (uncapped I'd be getting well over 200). If it drops to say 117 it'll produce a stutter. It's really weird.
 
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I would call bad stutter a drop from a steady 180fps to 20-30fps then back upto 180fps, a drop of 5 - 20fps is common, when the action starts kicking off in game is normally when FPS will dip a bit.
 
Just to be clear I don't have any issues with the FPS dipping at all. It could drop all the way down from 200 to 100 for all I cared if it didn't produce stutters.
 
Is it just 1 game or all games you play that produce the stutters?

Have you set high performance mode in windows power settings and max performance in Nvidia control panel?
 
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wookiee87 said:
Is it just 1 game or all games you play that produce the stutters?

Have you set high performance mode in windows power settings and max performance in Nvidia control panel?
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Pretty much every game pal.

DayZ
PubG
Tarkov
Arena Breakout
Delta Hawk Ops
PGA 2k23
Arma Reforger

To name a few.

Yep, max power in both. Low Latency mode to Ultra etc.
 
Are those all on-line games?

Thought I saw heaven benchmark mentioned
But rereading the posts can't see it now
That's down to my dyslexic tendencies though
My brain doesn't always see/recognise all the words

If I didn't see it but thought I did lol
Then yes try a gpu benchmark that's offline

One game does this to me (warthunder)
No apparent fps drop but a stutter every 30 seconds or so
Restarting my pc usually stops it though

Other suggestions
Connect to a different monitor or tv
Try different hdmi/display port cable

In max power plan
Could also try increasing minimum cpu %
Just in case its cpu dipping not gpu
Even on max power plan my 5950x does jump around a bit in game
 
Mcnumpty2323 said:
Are those all on-line games?

Thought I saw heaven benchmark mentioned
But rereading the posts can't see it now
That's down to my dyslexic tendencies though
My brain doesn't always see/recognise all the words

If I didn't see it but thought I did lol
Then yes try a gpu benchmark that's offline

One game does this to me (warthunder)
No apparent fps drop but a stutter every 30 seconds or so
Restarting my pc usually stops it though

Other suggestions
Connect to a different monitor or tv
Try different hdmi/display port cable

In max power plan
Could also try increasing minimum cpu %
Just in case its cpu dipping not gpu
Even on max power plan my 5950x does jump around a bit in game
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That's a good point, if all the games are online, internet speed is key, if you have bad speed, high ping then fps stutters will be present, do you run wifi or a wired connection to your router @BeadyRoller?
 
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Mcnumpty2323 said:
Are those all on-line games?

Thought I saw heaven benchmark mentioned
But rereading the posts can't see it now
That's down to my dyslexic tendencies though
My brain doesn't always see/recognise all the words

If I didn't see it but thought I did lol
Then yes try a gpu benchmark that's offline

One game does this to me (warthunder)
No apparent fps drop but a stutter every 30 seconds or so
Restarting my pc usually stops it though

Other suggestions
Connect to a different monitor or tv
Try different hdmi/display port cable

In max power plan
Could also try increasing minimum cpu %
Just in case its cpu dipping not gpu
Even on max power plan my 5950x does jump around a bit in game
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No worries mate! I'll do a heaven benchmark when I get home!

I've tried different cables.

I'll give the max power plan % a go. What did you set yours to?

All those games are online but even in tutorial sections of games where it's offline I still get the stutters.
 
wookiee87 said:
That's a good point, if all the games are online, internet speed is key, if you have bad speed, high ping then fps stutters will be present, do you run wifi or a wired connection to your router @BeadyRoller?
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Ping always seems pretty decent and speeds of 60mb. Not great but not terrible?

I'm wired straight in to router.
 
I have a similar pc to yours. 7800x3d, 4090 32gb ram and in Pubg I can be cruising at 165fps and then I feel a stutter and I check the fps and it’s 130 or around there. It doesn’t really bother me as it’s only for a second but it’s annoying when you feel it happen. My monitor is the Alienware aw34dwf which is only g sync compatible so maybe if it had a proper g sync module we wouldn’t feel the dips? Does your monitor have the g sync module?

I felt the same occasional stutter on my 14900k and ddr4 ram so my only guess is we need better g sync monitors to not notice the dips?

Hope my theory makes sense lol
 
BeadyRoller said:
No worries mate! I'll do a heaven benchmark when I get home!

I've tried different cables.

I'll give the max power plan % a go. What did you set yours to?

All those games are online but even in tutorial sections of games where it's offline I still get the stutters.
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I set cpu minimum state to 99%
I have different power plans for doing other stuff
Apart from gaming
So cpu can downclock on those plans when required
Definitely don't need it kicking out more heat
If it doesn't have to
Am already melting before even turned pc on today
Pretty ironic i moved south to escape Scottish weather
now i am complaining its too hot down south :cry:

Never realised tutorial sections of games were offline
Makes sense though

Yeah 60Mbs is very decent speed
Unless for some reason your upload speed is terrible
That should be way above required
Uploads probably 10--15 Mbs if it's standard fibre plan
 
It's a bit obscure but I once had a very similar problem that was eventually traced to an audio issue - I ran latencymon to see what was causing the micro-stuttering. Might be worth a look if you're desperate!
 
BeadyRoller said:
I'm absolutely lost guys and ready to give up PC gaming all together at this point. None of my friends seem to have these issues.

If anyone can help me I'd be so grateful.
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Andy Pandy said:
I have a similar pc to yours. 7800x3d, 4090 32gb ram and in Pubg I can be cruising at 165fps and then I feel a stutter and I check the fps and it’s 130 or around there. It doesn’t really bother me as it’s only for a second but it’s annoying when you feel it happen. My monitor is the Alienware aw34dwf which is only g sync compatible so maybe if it had a proper g sync module we wouldn’t feel the dips? Does your monitor have the g sync module?

I felt the same occasional stutter on my 14900k and ddr4 ram so my only guess is we need better g sync monitors to not notice the dips?

Hope my theory makes sense lol
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I also gave an Alienware monitor aw2723df.

The problem is I had a monitor before this that had proper gsync and had same issue, thought it maybe a monitor issue but no.

I get much more stutters than an occasional one unfortunately. Every sort of 20 seconds there's a small stutter that's very noticeable.
 
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