Please Help Me Solve My Long Lasting Stutter Problem

Had another idea. This was actually a fix for an older game I played that suffered from micro stutters.

Once the game is live, go into task manager and then the details tab. Find the exe then right click > set affinity.

Untick CPU 0:
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Click OK then try the game (reminder this will reset itself each time you open the game/exe).

My theory is that maybe the microstutter is bad because if the game is allocating most resources to core 0, it could be sharing process time with Windows. If you force the game not to be on CPU 0, then Windows can have CPU 0 to itself and the CPU will allocate resources to other cores that aren't doing much.
 
Adrianr said:
I was really hoping that would be the answer.
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check in windows to see if you've got your background set to "slideshow". that's what was causing it for me. though I think it was that combined with automatic accent colour?

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other things,
do you have any screen capture software installed, even if not running.
anything like rivatuner/msi afterburner
Overwolf?
 
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Do the stutters still happen when you’re ‘idle’ in game?

Separately, it’s not unusual for frame rates to fluctuate - you want to cap your frames so that there is as little fluctuation as possible.
 
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VeNT said:
check in windows to see if you've got your background set to "slideshow". that's what was causing it for me. though I think it was that combined with automatic accent colour?

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other things,
do you have any screen capture software installed, even if not running.
anything like rivatuner/msi afterburner
Overwolf?
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Oh sorry, I meant for him - just because it would have been one of those otherwise seemingly innocuous things causing all of this frustration.
 
Is it still the FPS drops as before 5-10fps or are you getting bad stutter IE 150+ FPS drop for a spilt second and so on?

Have a mate who for 18 months was struggling with his setup, funny enough his specs are almost identical to yours, after much component swapping we finally narrowed the issue to ram, I will say his GPU was all over the place core/ram clocks would drop, power limits would be all over the place, changed ram and all his major micro stutter issues disappeared.

Before that he could see 150-200fps in games but then the game would freeze up for 5 seconds and continue, sometimes the game would ctd too.
 
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BeadyRoller said:
Back again...

Still no luck fixing this issue. About to give up PC gaming as it's so deflating spending all this money for every game not to run as it should.
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Got any knowledgeable friends local to you? Fresh set of eyes may help if you are near anyone who knows what they are doing.
 
wookiee87 said:
Is it still the FPS drops as before 5-10fps or are you getting bad stutter IE 150+ FPS drop for a spilt second and so on?

Have a mate who for 18 months was struggling with his setup, funny enough his specs are almost identical to yours, after much component swapping we finally narrowed the issue to ram, I will say his GPU was all over the place core/ram clocks would drop, power limits would be all over the place, changed ram and all his major micro stutter issues disappeared.

Before that he could see 150-200fps in games but then the game would freeze up for 5 seconds and continue, sometimes the game would ctd too.
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It's funny you should say that as I have ordered some RAM tonight just to swap out and see if that is the issue as that would be the easiest fix. I'll report back tomorrow once I've tried to let you know if that had any bearing on it. Really is taking the fun out of gaming as that's all I can focus on.
 
So what are the symptoms again, are you getting really bad frame drops or feel micro stutter even though the game(s) shows high stable FPS?

Is the problem on all games you test or certain ones?
 
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Found this on a random thread - may be worth a try if you haven't already.
Display settings>Graphics>Change Default graphics settings> variable refresh rate (Disable this)

Another suggestion that seems to come up often is disabling fTPM in bios.

There are also quite a few people saying they had to RMA their cpu.
 
All I can describe it is a hitch/microstutter that lasts a milli-second but it's in every game I've tried which are:

DayZ
Delta Force
Fortnite
Arena Breakout
Stalker 2
Once Human
PUBG

It can't be a coincidence that all of them have the same problem?

It doesn't dip from saying 240fps to 30fps. It'll dip from 240 down to like 190 for example resulting in a tiny stutter.

I've tried all sorts in the BIOS, disabling ftpm for example. All types of combinations of GSync and VSync. Mouse polling rates. Every guide I can find on YouTube. Fresh Windows install. DDU the drivers.

I'm just so frustrated.
 
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CPU: 7800X3D
Graphics Card: Gainward Geforce RTX Phantom 4090
RAM: T-FORCE DDR5 6000Mhz
PSU: MSI 1000w
Motherboard: TUF Gaming B650-PLUS WIFI
Storage: 2 different M.2 drives.
Windows 11 Pro
 
BeadyRoller said:
CPU: 7800X3D
Graphics Card: Gainward Geforce RTX Phantom 4090
RAM: T-FORCE DDR5 6000Mhz
PSU: MSI 1000w
Motherboard: TUF Gaming B650-PLUS WIFI
Storage: 2 different M.2 drives.
Windows 11 Pro
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1000w is the minimum I would run tbh, download gpuz and under sensor tab keep an eye on the readouts, if you get sudden dips on the GPU but spikes on the CPU usage, that may indicate a PSU issue, keep track of GPU and memory clocks if they drop too, then look at the PSU, gpuz is good as it will track temp and power limits too so check to see if your GPU or CPU are thermal throttling.

And check your m.2's as well, which bands are they?

With regard to your motherboard, check to see if you can run 2 m.2's at full speed without impacting the GPU pcie x16 link speed, a 4090 at x8 speed can act funny as your limiting it's speed on pcie side of things.
 
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wookiee87 said:
1000w is the minimum I would run tbh, download gpuz and under sensor tab keep an eye on the readouts, if you get sudden dips on the GPU but spikes on the CPU usage, that may indicate a PSU issue, keep track of GPU and memory clocks if they drop too, then look at the PSU, gpuz is good as it will track temp and power limits too so check to see if your GPU or CPU are thermal throttling.

And check your m.2's as well, which bands are they?

With regard to your motherboard, check to see if you can run 2 m.2's at full speed without impacting the GPU pcie x16 link speed, a 4090 at x8 speed can act funny as your limiting it's speed on pcie side of things.
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How do I check that mate?
 
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